Inside a moped factory - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Inside a moped factory.




Previously:

Electric shock while pressure washing moped - GIF
Moped toilet - GIF
Moped transports large entertainment center - video

[rgsparber]

It is a popular belief that we want to bring manufacturing back to the USA. Yet, I would not want to assemble mopeds 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

When I see modem manufacturing around Phoenix, it is mostly a person with a GED feeding CNC machines with stock. This job would be even less satisfying to me.

I’ve also toured an Amazon distribution center and seen people reading screens and moving boxed into computers controlled shelving for 3 hours at a time. The pay, benefits, and working conditions looked good but it is rough on the body and mind. No thanks.

So what does a modern factory job look like in the future USA? Do we really pine for the old time factory pay but not the work?

[mklotz]

It is a popular belief that we want to bring manufacturing back to the USA.
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Let's see, what would it take to bring manufacturing stuff like scooters back to the USA...

Convince government to discard all those worker safety and environmental protection laws

Create a system of country wide rent and food price controls so low paid workers could live under a roof and eat occasionally

Redesign the education system so a high school graduate actually knew some math and had at least elementary literacy

Outlaw smart phones and social media

...Probably a few more I haven't thought of


Yeah sure, bring on the flying pigs.

[Floradawg]

That's because you have more than two brain cells to rub together. Many people are suited to mindless work. By the way those are scooters. Everyone calls them mopeds for some reason.

[Floradawg]

Redesign the education system so a high school graduate actually knew some math and had at least elementary literacy

YES!

[Frank S]

rgsparber; you could say that every job where a person is required to punch a time clock to do the same task day in and day out is mind numbing. I know some retired autoworkers who essentially installed the same 20 bolts in vehicles 8 hours per day every day for 20 years. With each new model year, they were required to spend a couple weeks training to relearn how to install those same 20 bolts or screws in the new models. don't ask the person who installs headliner to bolt an engine to a transmission because they wouldn't have a clue or someone in charge of mounting tires to install a headlamp, I used to have an uncle who worked at General Dynamics during the F111 project he was a trouble shooter electrician. Some of the stories he would tell about how some driller Cleco installer for the riveters to fallow, would drill through a $10,000.00 electric harness because they didn't have enough sense to set a drill stop on their bits.
I'm not at all confident that the last 2 generations of a huge percentage of USA workers are even capable of being trained to do the mind-numbing repetitious work required to assemble even something as mundane as a moped.