| All automaker factories are going to robotics, some | | | | Taylor envisioned how perfect or efficient his modern |
| say that Japan is leading the field in these endeavors, | | | | day factory would become. |
| of course most all of the technology started here in | | | | To help one better understand how robotic |
| the States. With American Automakers hurting and | | | | manufacturing works at Daimler Chrysler look at the |
| Delphi filing bankruptcy, some of these robotic auto | | | | assembly line factory robotics as a car wash. You |
| plants will go dark for a while and probably lay off | | | | see you are familiar with carwashes and this is similar |
| some Union Workers, which can save the companies | | | | to that of manufacturing models? Bottlenecks slow |
| millions is health care costs and problems associated | | | | production; moving the finished cars out of the way is |
| with over production and the need to discount or over | | | | a key, long lines hurt business. Have you ever seen the |
| extend credit to consumers, which would have a | | | | long line at the car wash and driven by instead of |
| whole other problem. | | | | stopping? You are not alone, as people drive off |
| Large auto factory plants like the German auto maker | | | | without stopping for a wash. |
| Daimler Chrysler often go dark to work on equipment, | | | | Manufacturing processes seem to be in the innate |
| upgrade computers, install new components along the | | | | thought processes of all business people, wanting to |
| assembly lines and general maintenance. These 2-4 | | | | become the most efficient they can be. Daimler |
| week shut downs are necessary as IT personal | | | | Chrysler knows this and is working hard to make it |
| re-figure glitches, assign net-centric IP addresses for | | | | happen. Right now automakers face some financial |
| each component, as the robotic professional fine tune | | | | challenges, but this may be an opportunity for them to |
| the systems. Some of these robotic factories have | | | | upgrade their factories to become even more efficient. |
| over 2500-4500 devices all working together on the | | | | You see, the future in manufacturing is completely |
| assembly lines. So now these system talk to | | | | robotic, humans are quite inefficient compared to |
| themselves and self-assigns the IP addresses thru the | | | | robots, who do not complain, require healthcare costs, |
| routers, which add an additional level of security and of | | | | or join unions to sue you. The Human Factor has |
| course complexity as well. Everything must be perfect | | | | caused the problem for the Automakers, due to run |
| as the show MUST go on at Chrysler. Remember the | | | | away costs in labor and although humans are "mostly |
| efficiency of robotics only work when all the robotics | | | | harmless," as they say; they are rapidly being replaced |
| are working perfectly. An on looker of such a factory | | | | by efficient robotic computerized systems around the |
| in progress cannot imagine the problematic situations | | | | world. Daimler Chrysler is one of the companies |
| of bottlenecks, or the complexity in the Finite Capacity | | | | leading the pack in Robotic Factories. Think on this. |
| Scheduling models, nor could have Friedrich "Winslow" | | | | |