Why China’s ammunition factories are being turned over to robots

SCMP ^ | 01 January, 2018 | Stephen Chen

[TigerLikesRooster]

U.S. should do this, too, if they want to produce enough stockpile of weapons with less defense spending. Hiring more workers may not be enough.

[buckalfa]

Quantity has a quality of its own. The question is does the PRC have the tech to do so.

[marktwain]

I suspect many of our ammunition factories are automated where possible.

But, given they have little reason to be competitive (government contracts) they may not be.

[Billyv]

Probably more to do with raising quality standards as well as production rates.

[plain talk]

Yep. Factories and warehouses will increasingly become almost completely automated. Anyone with these types of jobs better upgrade their skills and move on. It won’t happen overnight but it will happen.

[cba123]

The country which manufactures fully 90% of ALL COMPUTERS in the world?

I sure think so.

The question any more, is do we?

I know, that is meant (partly) in jest.

Partly.

[Sawdring]

Treble: Make or become three times as large or numerous.

[umgud]

Can Chinese citizens buy and use ammunition?

[polymuser]

Been happening steadily. More in medical and agriculture now. Growing in military. AI will be intellectual robotization, coming to management and rules-based professions soon. Brave new world. Of the brainiacs developing it all, I suspect fewer are from America now.

[TigerLikesRooster]

No, never in a million years. If that happens, there will be no communist regime. The regime will quickly lose control of their country. You are talking about their single most terrifying nightmare.

[Vermont Lt]

If you tell a machine to put sixty grains of powder in a cartridge, it will do it until it runs out of powder or you tell it to.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Why would you *not* want robotic ammo production?

[Charles Martel]

Back in the mid-’80s, I had a tour of a new munitions plant which manufactured 155mm artillery shells and cluster bomblets. It was probably 90% robotic or otherwise automated, from the production lines to the storage bunkers - including the transport shuttles that moved completed explosives into storage. Even then, it looked like a sci-fi movie set. There were relatively few people on-site to run the machines, all of whom worked behind blast barriers and viewed everything by CCTV.

[AlaskaErik]

We need this in the US for .22 production. It’s still scarce in Alaska, especially in brick size.

[TigerLikesRooster]

When everybody involved is happy with status quo, if it provides fat profit to defense industry and government officials.

[BipolarBob]

https://ammoseek.com/ammo/22lr

[SunkenCiv]

Sex robots could be hacked to murder people
indy100.com/
Posted on 01/01/2018 12:16:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
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[Axenolith]

Unfortunately our defense prioritization is more oriented towards massaging voters for politicians,

[oldasrocks]

A hacker could sure have fun in one of those factories.

[vette6387]

“A hacker could sure have fun in one of those factories.”

Can you say Stuxnet?