Government Regulation of Automation

T.REX TALK

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This an Audio-Only follow-up episode to Isaacs discussion on Disruptive Technology. Automation tools tend to be the most disruptive technologies, especially to large unions and government officials, and it's interesting to look through history at ways that advances in automation have been described as destructive, but usually end up being highly constructive.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome again to another T-Rex talk, another audio-only T-Rex talk podcast.
0:06.1	At this point, we should probably come up with a name so that you can tell the difference between a one-hour T-Rex talk that was live-streamed onto YouTube and then backed up as a podcast
0:16.0	versus these MP3 files that I record for the podcast, although maybe it becomes obvious to you.
0:22.2	If you have the podcast app or listening on Spotify or something like that, it's pretty easy
0:27.1	for you to see which episodes are one hour long and which episodes are 20 minutes long,
0:32.7	which currently is the best differentiator.
0:35.6	I'm not sure what a good time limit is or what you guys are actually
0:39.7	looking for, but I generally have ideas which last about 20 minutes when they come to talking
0:46.1	about them. And one of the ideas that I've been thinking about a lot over the last couple of weeks
0:50.1	is automation, mostly because we're building a lot of automation equipment at the shop.
0:56.4	We are currently upgrading our production pipeline, and that involves building a bunch of custom
1:01.3	tooling, and a bunch of stuff is getting automated. Now, it's not getting completely automated.
1:06.9	We're not going to be able to make holsters without the aid of humans. We're not, we don't actually have anything that runs lights out in the shop at this point, but a bunch of steps do get more automated.
1:18.6	So the holster bending process is one that's getting fairly automated.
1:24.6	A human is still going to have to pick up the holster, put it into
1:28.9	the heater, wrap it around the form, but then instead of using his puny human fingers to open up a
1:36.0	clamp, he's going to be able to have a pneumatic clamp that he operates with a foot pedal. So a big
1:41.4	chunk of the process is more automated than it was in the past, even though there's still a human doing most of the work.
1:49.2	His time isn't going to be drastically freed up because he's going to have to work a normal work day.
1:55.6	But he's probably going to be able to bend twice as many holsters per hour, and it's going to require a little bit less finger strength to do the job of bending the holsters.
2:08.6	And that's just one station.
2:09.7	Every station is getting some level of upgrade.
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