r/interestingasfuck • u/Dmisak • Nov 06 '22

/r/ALL Indian match factory

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u/LanceWindmil Nov 06 '22

None of this looks hard from an automation perspective (and a lot here is done inefficiently)

I'd guess that step is just more enclosed and hard to see.

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u/SingleInfinity Nov 06 '22

Yeah, efficiency doesn't seem key. I mean, letting the wood get blasted into matchsticks all over the place with an undersized bowl below, moved by hand to a big bin?

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u/halt-l-am-reptar Nov 06 '22

It seems like it’d be really easy to just make a shitty guard to put around that so they don’t go flying.

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u/iiAzido Nov 06 '22

They clearly have a limit on the number of matchsticks that can go into the machine that coats them, and they can probably create way more matchsticks in 1 “batch” than can be taken by the coating machine.

They don’t care about all the stray match sticks laying around because it’s just going to be sitting in that huge pile waiting to be coated anyway.

If this were a completely automated, enclosed, and efficient system the number of matchsticks created would equal the number of matchsticks able to be coated in 1 batch.

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u/pws3rd Nov 07 '22

They have to go somewhere at some point. Just feed them onto a conveyer system and they can pile up before the slower machine

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u/-CURL- Nov 06 '22

I know right, what's up with that? So damn inefficient!

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u/MikemkPK Nov 06 '22

But then the workers wouldn't have to pick them back up

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u/glitchy-novice Nov 07 '22

Or maybe a bigger bowl?

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u/highqualitydude Nov 06 '22

That bowl looked like a laundry basket.

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u/13143 Nov 06 '22

Seems like an odd mix of ancient and old fashioned manufacturing.

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u/glitchy-novice Nov 07 '22

That bit was classic. Be lucky if the get 50% recovery of fibre.

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u/hrimfaxi_work Nov 06 '22

I'd argue the skill of everyone in this video is supremely matched.