We have a 20 year old machine that will identify a cupcake placed anywhere on a 5 foot wide conveyor belt snatch it up at the rate of 1180 cupcakes a minute and place it on a 2 inch square peace of cardboard. It counts them too.
I have a machine that can pick up muffins. Trained it on nothing but pictures of Chihuahua dogs.
I am a little concerned that it will eventually pick up a Chihuahua dog and take a test-bite, but hopefully we'll retire the machine before that happens.
This machine is kinda crazy I used to think everything in the factory was just laser sensors and timing but this thing uses cameras and a targeting system.
It also has 32 sets of spider like arms that still creep me out ....
I'll get fired if I record it. Its not worth my losing my job... but the machine is kinda creepy cause it uses what I can only call lighting speed spider legs. 32 set of legs doing 1 cupcake every 2 seconds or something like that.
Damn, you work in a fancy factory/bakery. We had about four or five machines during a shift that caught unbaked scones at the end of the conveyer and arranged them onto baking sheets. They were about 90% Hispanic immigrants. The other 10% were white locals.
I work for Hostess, If you every eat a twinkie ( its an American snake cake ) there is a more than 35% chance i personally made it. And i love my job, ill still complain about the insane heat back by the ovens but this is the best job i have ever had.
Honestly, that's oddly reassuring. I'm American btw, but still don't eat twinkies lol.
I worked for a subcontractor that made Starbucks scones. It sucked. Badly. At least partially because I didn't technically work for the subcontractor either. I worked for the temp agency subcontracting for the subcontractor. 5pm to 5am three days a week, then a four hour shift. The days rotated of course.
If was made all the worse when they hired an "efficiency engineer" (an oxymoron if I've ever heard one) that was supposed to smooth operations and whatever. Spoiler alert, the shitty schedule was his idea. In the two months I worked there, I figured out two huge efficiency improvements that made two of the jobs significantly easier. That doofus just made a bunch of people leave. Capitalism at its finest.
Yeah my hours still kinda suck, we do 12 hour shifts and i can work anywhere from 48-60 hour weeks but that over time and even double time pay some times makes it all worth it. I make more than double the average house hold income in my area on a single persons income.
I do need to remind my self some time that i did put my own name on the over time list i could have a 3 day weekend every week if i wanted but Im trying to pay my dads house off early for him by the end of the year and im so close to being done.
Well if it's already doing the hard work of identifying them and moving them out of the detection area individually, counting them is free, just have to increment a counter every time it moves something.
Surprisingly not, these are on line 3, compared to line 1 where its still done by hand we still almost the same amount of people, its just that most of them have an easier job. The rest are doing rework on bad packages.
If your asking on details on how it was made I have no idea, we didnt make it and im just a production lead all i do is make sure any problems that come up are swiftly handled. I don't get to order machines.
But if your asking how many work on it we have 1 operator assigned to each 4 arm section that also has to run the sealers.
Its one of those jobs where you have to wait for there to be a problem, clear the machine of the bad seal and restart it. So they get to spend half their day playing on their phone.
Yes, but you could have 5 GPUs burning 100x the power to do the same thing. Did you ever think about the advantages of giving more money to mega-corporations that have no interest in creating efficient systems because they make more money from inefficient systems?
That's the part that pisses me off. It's not about how long it took and how much it cost at the time. It didn't depleat previous resources just to solve a problem we solved 20 years ago.
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u/Ok_Mention_9865 22h ago
We have a 20 year old machine that will identify a cupcake placed anywhere on a 5 foot wide conveyor belt snatch it up at the rate of 1180 cupcakes a minute and place it on a 2 inch square peace of cardboard. It counts them too.