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To: LindyBill who wrote (232541)	12/24/2007 5:57:55 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794478

The driving cost is the cost of getting the ends sewn. But the actual knitting of the sock is by robot everywhere. So a robot the can sew the ends disrupts the cost of production. I do wonder why no one has not created that robot. Is it so complex as to be beyond rocket science? I used this as an example. But more sophisticated robots continually change the basis for manufacturing costs. I have designed manufacturing electronic test equipment that was measured to have reduced the number of line workers associated with testing from 12 to 1.1. It had nothing to do with robots but a more reliable test method made by programing smarts into the test and ergonomic considerations to speed handling. At the time it was not cost effective to replace that last human in the process. today the cheapest laptop has at least 1000 times the computing power of the test system I designed.