Posted on 05/04/2015 1:00:53 PM PDT by Borges
"We'll have 100 high-tech 3D printers running 24 hours, 7 days a week," said CloudDDM's founder Mitch Free. And it'll need just three employees: one for each of the eight-hour shifts.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
It’s coming...
And all 3 will be H1B hires.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
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The main requirement and will trump all others.
Well they need 7 employees to run 24/7... at least if the really want somebody there at all times. But wow.
3D printing has gong through the "hype/disillusionment" phase that almost all new and disruptive technologies go through and is now primed to take off like a rocket.
We are looking at a $1 trillion industry forming right before our eyes. For those who missed the PC boom, the Internet boom and the mobile device boom, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.
3D printers are good for manufacturing prototypes, but high speed printers they are not.
Name some of these companies.
We are looking at a $1 trillion industry forming right before our eyes. For those who missed the PC boom, the Internet boom and the mobile device boom, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.
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I’m not your broker. Go do your own research.
Sounds like a poor business strategy to me. If one employee per shift is enough to manage the machinery, load the raw materials, unload and inspect the finished parts, and ship them out the door then the volume of production for the machines must be very low. Probably less than one part per machine per shift.
For that much capital tied up in machinery I would expect to see such a volume of parts being made that multiple employees would be required just to manage the shipping.
the “hype” phase as you call it, was in the late 1980s-early 90s when the first stereolithography systems were introduced. What’s happened is the price has dropped to the point where this technology can disrupt some other manufacturing processes, and enable new applications the others weren’t feasible for. But the “innovators dilemma” does not always (or often) lead to obsolescence of the older technology. We’re still using hard drives in our PCs for example, but a portable MP3 player or digital camera would never have been possible without solid state memory. 3D printing will gain ground where it has consistent advantages, other technologies will continue to exist alongside. When you go to the automated McDonalds across from the 3D Printing Plant, I guarantee you the spoon you get will still be injection molded, not 3D printed.
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Of course Mitch doesn’t count the UPS employees who will supposedly be doing the packing...
3 workers, with large capital investments, and human ingenuity, can now produce tens of millions of dollars worth of output.
compare that to the average worker of the middle age - what could 3 workers producer with their labor - a few tons of potatoes?
Or compare that to a similar work 50 years ago.
So where does all the extra income from this productivity go? At the same time, why have real wages been stagnant for the last 45 years?
IMO, its been taken by government and also the Federal Reserve. Printed fiat money and government debt mean productivity goes to those handling printed dollars and debt first (ie. Wall Street and financialization) The remainder is used by government for the welfare state, or is stolen by inflation, zero interest, and currency debasement.
The only way to restore the middle class (and also end progressive redistributionist government) is to return to gold-backed money.
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