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Originally posted by SuperDanman
I was told that at car factories like Honda and such, everything is completely automated - automated to the point where there are a total of 3, 5 people on duty there just to make sure the place doesn't burn down or anything like that (yeah, the number's probably exaggerated, but if you think back to the time of Henry Ford where assembly plants employed thousands, well, thats one of the consequences of industrialization).
Many companies (namely the Big 3) have standard design rules that incorporate Human Interaction. Be it pushing a button after a gravity conveyor so the next step happens, or just be there in case a machine breaks down.

At Comau Pico, all of our designs MUST incorporate a spot so that if a machine breaks down, production can continue, even if it's considerably slower. While robotic automation is getting more and more reliable, people still need to be around to supervise the robots. I don't think there are any "lights out" rooms in existance (at least none I've seen or heard of).
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