[Bryanw92]

>>Workers are sent home for lack of work regularly, b/c the automated, robotic equipment is breaking down.

This is why I have worked in the Industrial Automation field for 25 years. Employers just keep getting more and more desperate as my generation retires and no one steps up to learn to maintain automated machinery. I’ve been a supervisor of technicians for a while now, but I keep my skills sharp because there are days when you just don’t have enough techs to go around.

[Daffynition]

I understand Amazon owns the company that makes the robotic equipment. Perhaps that’s where their problem is.

[Daffynition]

I understand Amazon owns the company that makes the robotic equipment. Perhaps that’s where their problem is.

You are wise to keep up your tech skills. Windsor, CT needs you whether you know it or not! ;)

[pa_dweller]

Employers just keep getting more and more desperate as my generation retires and no one steps up to learn to maintain automated machinery.

Yep. There was a piece in the Reading (Pa) Eagle a while back on the local tech school's industrial automation classes. IIRC grads have a better than 95% placement rate. And it's getting ever more technical.