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Why aren't people more obsessed with these things? They are absolute marvels. Always custom made and are the VERY FOUNDATION of our whole world at this point. Basically NOTHING we buy isn't mass produced or processed in these factories.

Why aren't people more obsessed with these things? They are absolute marvels. Always custom made and are the VERY FOUNDATION of our whole world at this point. Basically NOTHING we buy isn't mass produced or processed in these factories.

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[–] • 5 pts

I've seen several in my career as an engineer. Some machines are custom made yes but it's tooling and dies where it can get real fun too. So stamping is somewhat a universal process. You just size the machine and make the dies. Forging upsetters are pretty cool. There's a lot out there. IMO in tooling and equipment, you're almost limited by your imagination.

[–] • 4 pts

Why aren't people more obsessed with these things?

Most people have no interest in knowing anything about anything unless it's mindless entertainment or gossip. The number of people who enjoy educating themselves is dwindling while the number of people who mindlessly consume is ever increasing. They don't want to know how things are made. They simply want to show off that they have the latest shiny thing for dopamine hits.

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Its my field. I do FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer goods) production lines in the medical industry. Acholol swabs, bandages, diapers, sanitary pads, tampons, wet wipes, yes we joke that we wish we were doing bullets instead. The machines run raw material to packaged product ready for sale, quite something to behold at 600 pcs/minute.

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How did you get in to that field? What is your education background? I'd like to get in to that field. I've got a programming background.

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My training is in Business (Batchelors) and Operations management (National Diploma), and I've been in engineering my whole working life (Started as a daftsman). But we have guys with high school only who have learned on the job and are good at it. Work we do on these lines requires specialists in various fields, I could'nt sort a faulty production line out on my own. If you can program (or just read programs) you have the hardest part behind you. The rest is reasonably simple mechanical ability. Getting your foot in the door is probably the hardest part. We started by specialising in one important aspect that all these lines have in common, and built around that.

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You apply at a company and interview for the job. It’s not great pay and it’s moderately stressful/difficult work. The only way to make a lot of money is to be a supplier for some very instrument and having tons of connections.

You just want a programming/engineering background, pickiness depends on the employer.

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I've been getting into learning PLC's lately... which control much of industrial automation. These things are freakin' cool, man... wish I would have gotten into it 20 years ago. I come from a programming background, and am familiar with ModBUS enough such that I literally wrote an embedded driver for it in C from my own memory... so picking up PLC's has been pretty easy for me.

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White women make the machines that make these machines.

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Ask a German. A lot of that production equipment is manufactured in Germany.

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The photolithography machines that run Taiwan's TSMC are made by ASML in Netherlands. China and Taiwan make chips but the machines that make those chips are researched, engineered, and manufactured in the west.