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Is there not a lot of robotic welding going on in shipbuilding?Shipbuilding looks miserable
Is there not a lot of robotic welding going on in shipbuilding?
Not using robots could in theory help society, because if people have to learn to do things well and right the first time, while having attention to detail, then they might use that behavior in daily life. But, then some people just never learn to do anything well.I bet that works pretty well!
I'm sure there is, likely track units so you have guys running them to make sure they're going good, and most of those are likely sub arc units. But there's a ton of hand welding too, just pretty much the nature of big things. There's a big enough tolerance where robots don't do as well, and each ship is unique because it depends on how it all fits. Even with the robots you still need a ton of hand welders, and the guys running the robots have to know what they're doing.
Even before i got in the fitters, on my first welding job building rops for combines i was doing critical welds instead of the robots, and was trusted to do them when the robot was down, which was often. I worked what they called "the buck" and it was where all the different pieces came together, very physical job with lifting and setting 70 pounds or so, climbing, and kneeling on steel and over clamps and fixtures all day. We did the bottom critical welds and put all the trim pieces on too at a different table, so we were the bottleneck of the line, and were pretty much always buried in work and the production times were pretty harsh. I learned it well, and pretty soon i was the fastest around by a country mile, and so the entire crew had it good and weren't bothered at all because we were better than first shift. Production was 12 for 3 guys and i would knock out 6 a night by myself since they didn't have enough guys, so they wisely let us do our thing. They even had me wreck them out for ones that were too messed up to fix, or repair welds that were out of spec. On overtime i would babysit a robot but had problems staying awake after the intense first 8 hours (2nd and 3rd shift working 5 16s), so i asked to do hand welding so they had me do massive diesel tanks.
At cat i was the last of the super heavy dualshield hand welds, they were transitioning to a robot. It didn't do too hot, so i ended up in salvage arc gouging the bad welds out and doing them manually. I also would have to get taps out that had broken off in parts, and then would weld them back up, drill, and tap them.
I've ran robots a bunch in the fitters too, and there's guys traveling all over the country making bank doing just that. I used one a few weeks ago welding tube, and have programmed ones with wire feed as well doing tube and pipe, some for food grade and some in chemical plants. They're really good and can make beautiful welds very quickly, but everything has to be absolutely perfect, which doesn't always happen, and you need a bang up welder to run them. So there will always be a need for good manual welders, so we often joke at work that we'll be the last morons working when everyone else is relaxing at home and doing cool stuff because no one else needs to work anymore, but they can't build robots to do our jobs yet
I disagree, as far as what I meant in my earlier post. There's still a lot of skill involved with chainsaws and ropes. We aren't cutting trees with robots. That's like comparing electric welders with some sort of brazing or forge welding. We're talking about robots vs people actively running the tools. I'm not so much talking about maximizing labor to better society, but to hold people to a high standard of doing things.by that logic we would still be cutting trees with axes and handsaws
Wtf!!
I've said it before- high level welding is so high skill, I'm surprised you give a sh*t about treework