Automation engineer here. This size of machinery is what you get when you want millions of cycles of repeatable production at high speed. It can probably run faster. A much lighter machine with thin parts could do it, but it would wear out faster and fail more. Like how you can get a home pasta maker that's mostly plastic for $60 at walmart, but the one at the factory uses a 1" thick steel plate and a gear motor the size of a paint can.
Making one wouldn't require a machine this big. Not ten, either. Not a hundred, or a thousand. A machine this big is required to do it endlessly for hours every day, for days on end, without efficiency/profit-killing inturruption, producing hundreds of thousands if not millions over its life.
I couldn't figure it out until I realized that's probably the raw wire coming in. I guess the theory that it's just doing some testing/calibration is correct and once that tiny spool is done they'll drop a massive spool there and let 'er rip.
making wire hangers doesn’t require a huge machine. making wire hangers perfectly at a high and reliable speed of production with a one time cost (plus maintenance)?? that might.
Meanwhile the tech bros on Twitter who fap to the Tesla robot that probably does not actually work. Think that humanoid robots will replace machines like this in the same task. When those kinds of robots could not equal this thing at the speed shown and i bet that is not even its max capacity.
I big appeal of a "humanoid" robot would probably be flexibility. Both in terms of what it's doing and where it's doing it... but that comes with all the limitations of being human shaped. Specialized machines make more sense for most applications, at the end of the day
Possibly, i mean look at clean it is. Maybe its new or maybe it just got a bunch of cleaning and maintenance so they want to make sure nothing goes funky and will ease the speed up over time.
Meanwhile, the plastic ones probably have like a few dozen laid out in a big injection mold and make like 20+ of them in the time it takes this to make 5.
The design is probably over 100 years old, even if this particular machine isn't. The simplicity of this is that it runs on only one motor, and with no sensors
I had no idea this movie existed and accidentally called my abusive mom ‘mommy dearest’ in like a Mother’s Day card or something. I honestly had no idea it had another meaning. Consequences ensued, but I enjoy the irony now.
bronx72a
Needs Futurama music.
AnythingMuchShorter
Automation engineer here. This size of machinery is what you get when you want millions of cycles of repeatable production at high speed. It can probably run faster. A much lighter machine with thin parts could do it, but it would wear out faster and fail more. Like how you can get a home pasta maker that's mostly plastic for $60 at walmart, but the one at the factory uses a 1" thick steel plate and a gear motor the size of a paint can.
BrightestNight
"You don't like hangers? It's hangers that clothe you, and it's hangers that feed you!"
dan86turbo
Harmaahyljetili
Isn't every part of the US healthcare unnecessarily bloated?
codenameRadical
It doesn't. The huge machine is to do several thousand an hour.
OphelianAshe
This machine banned in red states
66WaysToDownvote
So. Many. Abortions.
eathotdog
Im so glad we're all on the same wavength, the same dark cynical wavelength
extraDimensionalAnxiety
So little time
necrojoe
Making one wouldn't require a machine this big. Not ten, either. Not a hundred, or a thousand. A machine this big is required to do it endlessly for hours every day, for days on end, without efficiency/profit-killing inturruption, producing hundreds of thousands if not millions over its life.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Magas keeping this in business
UncleMeaty
It doesn't require a huge machine. You can make them by hand. The huge machine just makes it a whole lot easier and faster.
nemocares
Yep, the machine isn't simply there to make them, it's there to make one every 1.5 seconds or so for hour upon hours upon hours on end.
huffnpuff72
Finally a clip that is steady enough and repeats enough actions you can work out what's happening without pausing or replaying 12 times.
waheliod
I’m doing work for a company that makes plastic forks and and spoons the machine is slightly smaller than a cargo container. 🤷♂️
lewdev
Dey Terk Er Jerbs!
J0NKER
weird. that's like... exactly how i thought they were made. neat to see it in action though.
Snooj
I like the automatic hula hoop machine in the background.
gobblinal
I couldn't figure it out until I realized that's probably the raw wire coming in. I guess the theory that it's just doing some testing/calibration is correct and once that tiny spool is done they'll drop a massive spool there and let 'er rip.
fictionalsounds
making wire hangers doesn’t require a huge machine. making wire hangers perfectly at a high and reliable speed of production with a one time cost (plus maintenance)?? that might.
languex
I much prefer Bender's female robot colleague.
Timberwolves4ever
They’re on back order, being sent to every state south of the Mason Dixon line.
NorrinxRadd
NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!
TheNameIsMadeUpAndThePointsDontMatter
Needs more googly eyes.
Filanwizard
Meanwhile the tech bros on Twitter who fap to the Tesla robot that probably does not actually work. Think that humanoid robots will replace machines like this in the same task. When those kinds of robots could not equal this thing at the speed shown and i bet that is not even its max capacity.
Zin7
thats not the kind of work the tech bros talk about
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
I big appeal of a "humanoid" robot would probably be flexibility. Both in terms of what it's doing and where it's doing it... but that comes with all the limitations of being human shaped. Specialized machines make more sense for most applications, at the end of the day
IncrediRis
hey man, that wire ain’t gonna bend itself
KnifeKnut
I suspect this is debug/calibration speed
ReturnOfActionCheese
Yeah seems pretty slow
Filanwizard
Possibly, i mean look at clean it is. Maybe its new or maybe it just got a bunch of cleaning and maintenance so they want to make sure nothing goes funky and will ease the speed up over time.
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myotheralt
Use your safety squints, and then count to 7½
cbale2000
Meanwhile, the plastic ones probably have like a few dozen laid out in a big injection mold and make like 20+ of them in the time it takes this to make 5.
boomfish
Wire Hangers!!?? Joan Crawford probably.
salunatics
Tool gifs logo spotted! Answer below.
salunatics
13s mark, display screen for the machine.
inspiringandfunnyusernamecoolheh
but this machine works, it is probably 40 years old or more
mindstorm8191
The design is probably over 100 years old, even if this particular machine isn't.
The simplicity of this is that it runs on only one motor, and with no sensors
InoffensivePablum
sochilln
I searched specifically for this comment!
malachilenomade
Oh when we were kids, the best way to piss my mom off was to call her Mommy Dearest.
theplantladyisabenevolentruler
I had no idea this movie existed and accidentally called my abusive mom ‘mommy dearest’ in like a Mother’s Day card or something. I honestly had no idea it had another meaning. Consequences ensued, but I enjoy the irony now.
thotterpop
What's the reference?
sochilln
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082766/?ref_=ext_shr
malachilenomade
It's what that gif is from, a film called Mommy Dearest. Kind of disturbing....
TayOi
Business must be booming what with the Supreme Court ruling and all
kamui9460
Oof
stonecoldstevebuschemi
soulsick
Bigblackdick69
imacmadman
Surfbreaker83
I made it down about four comments before I got this. Geebus Crisp my dude. Lol
IncrediRis
brutal
boardfuniguess
Hahaha that's awesome
LaffertyDanie1
JaTheRed
tzahtman
Starbolt81
BeaverOnFire
Billis75
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
DisUsernameAmsDildos
Sebastopol140
OhmyBandit
Dark like my coffee.
Einstein9073
Ground up and in the freezer
WillieAndMartinHandcartCompanies
Ouch!
crimpitdown9001
makingthingsthatareimportant
WinchesterTavern
taurondir
If you place your genitals directly on the operating parts of that machine, you won't ever be at risk of having more kids.
guitarfourtysix
You just have to be real quick, and not hanger round.
LariCheltsy
myotheralt
I need the full clip. "Laughing piano guy"
myotheralt
Oh hey, that worked. https://youtu.be/c5lFC89uFB8?si=TzCGCykHpvahQ6J3