The replacement “collaborative robots,” or “cobots,” have been installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan amid a sharply reduced demand for its EV models and the ensuing push to cut costs. The machines are now working alongside the 'remaining humans' there who attach the body panels to vehicles as they move down the track.
The automaker insists the cobots are necessary at the Detroit-Hamtramck electric-truck plant to stay competitive while improving “safety and ergonomics” for the workers.
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Sweet the cost for a new GM should be dropping any day now. waiting......
ReplyDeleteUsed to be they blamed unions for the high cost of cars. Then the EPA. So there's no excuse now to lower prices.
DeleteSadly, the continued union costs will keep prices high. And the union was getting ready for another round of potential strikes in order to get more and more money for the union leadership (and the Democratic Party.)
DeleteYeah, robots are expensive, but not nearly as expensive as the autoworkers' union and all the associated unions. And, unlike union employees, you can reprogram a robot to do a different task or multiple tasks, if it's broke you can get rid of it, you can replace it anytime you want.
So, yes, union costs are behind the expenses of US cars built by union employees and the US cars NOT built by union employees.
Kill the unions. All of them. Find me a union and you'll find an industry or workplace being strangled by said union to death.
Haha, the robots used are Japanese made by FANUC.
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