Hacker News Reader

> it’s not changing anything for US manufacturing.

I don't think this is true. I work for a US company producing industrial equipment based heavily on machine vision. Our products (along with those of our competitors) have changed the entire industry we support, for the better.

Ours is only one specific part of the manufacturing space, but I fully expect the impact to spread to other parts as well.

View on HN

Does the industrial equipment enable manufacturers to eliminate human labor in the production process or is it more of a way to replace existing machines with a more reliable, performant etc. solution? If you want to share this info.

It increases the efficiency (that is, reduces waste) of the use of raw materials in production. In some circumstances, it probably does replace a small number of human workers, but that's not its main effect and isn't the source of the savings our customers get from it. It's mostly doing a job that wasn't being done before.

From what I understand, there are increases in efficiency due (in part) to the ability of machines to run at all hours, helping manufacturers to work with delayed and unpredictable supply chains. Also due to reducing tiresome, back-breaking manual labor.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com