Home A - Z
Page Index

An Otter Wiki

Commit 9d0656

2026-03-20 04:43:01 German Gamboa: -/-
dev/on equivalent product.md ..
@@ 10,22 10,30 @@
>Setting aside the child’s view of a robot as a machine resembling a human, but rather thinking of it as a
>device for handling and controlling things in the material world, robots used in manufacturing do the
>following:
+ >
>A. Produce a better product under tighter control limits.
+ >
>B. Produce usually a cheaper product.
+ >
>C. Produce a different product.
+ >
>This last point needs careful emphasis.
+ >
>When we first passed from hand accounting to machine accounting we found it necessary, for
>economical reasons if no other, to somewhat alter the accounting system. Similarly, when we passed from
>strict hand fabrication to machine fabrication we passed from mainly screws and bolts to rivets and
>welding.
+ >
>It has rarely proved practical to produce exactly the same product by machines as we produced by
>hand.
+ >
>Indeed, one of the major items in the conversion from hand to machine production is the imaginative
>redesign of an equivalent product. Thus in thinking of mechanizing a large organization, it won’t work if
>you try to keep things in detail exactly the same, rather there must be a larger give-and-take if there is to be
>a significant success. You must get the essentials of the job in mind and then design the mechanization to do
>that job rather than trying to mechanize the current version—if you want a significant success in the long
>run.
+ >
>I need to stress this point; mechanization requires you produce an equivalent product, not identically the
>same one. Furthermore, in any design it is now essential to consider field maintenance since in the long run
>it often dominates all other costs. The more complex the designed system the more field maintenance must
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9