On: We are starting to operate our CNC machines remote...

[spyder]

It's called lights-out manufacturing:

"Factories that employ "lights-out manufacturing" are fully automated and require no human presence on-site."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)

[riskneutral → spyder]

If I'm not mistaken, Apple's machine shops are almost fully automated. They bought an enormous number of CNC machines to make MacBooks, etc.

[varjag → riskneutral]

Of course noone solders SMD or mills device chassis manually, but top-level assembly is mostly manual labor.

[ska → varjag]

That's not going to be done in the machine shops though, to GP's point.

[varjag → ska]

I must have missed that, thanks.

[u678u → spyder]

For some reason this scares me at a core level more than anything else. Seems inevitable that Skynet will control the factory sooner or later.

[spyder → u678u]

Yep, one of the example in the Wiki is robots building robots since 2001:

"FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been operating as a lights-out factory since 2001.[6] Robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time."

[jtsiskin → u678u]

Imagine a paper clip factory, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

[bsder → jtsiskin]

Wrong link: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

[Sharapolas → u678u]

With IIOT (industry internet of things) that definitely seems like a possible reality. However, as long as Skynet is controlled by ex-factory workers it will be a promotion for everyone.