Are you preparing your skill set for the 4th Industrial Revolution

@Teggy 🤣 bro you gots nothin to worry bout.. you freaking design or engineer aircraft thingymajigs...

@iMystery I CNC machine them lol

@Teggy The sad part is, machining without CNC is becoming a lost art... or at the very least, people learn it in reverse...

@wildbill83 I learned it via analog.

@Teggy Still a relevant future skill I think... unless that becomes totally automated too 👀

@iMystery where we are it's impossible with the crap I'm doing but I don't doubt everything can be automated.

@Teggy Then I think you are relatively safe lol.

I am considering learning computer programming... AFTER I finish this darn Business Degree I am currently doing 😅

@iMystery high end CNC pretty much is these days... even things like set up/part centering/profiling are being taken over by automation; about the only thing people do is physically put the part in the machine and push a start button...

gone are the days of manually inputting G code, nowadays if you can operate cad software/draw a picture, you can operate a bridgeport...

@wildbill83 Here were looking at over 400,000 lines of code per side lol good luck doing that manually.

These parts are around 15,000lbs each lol gives you the idea of how big they are and machined from solid hunks of forge.

You can't do this manually and make money

@Teggy for some time, they had to. I've seen some of the old punched tape/card operated machines they used in the 50's and 60's. The paper spools to run operations took up more space than the machines themselves...

@wildbill83 lol I ran a punch tape machine long ago doing dowels when I started

I don't even want to think about what kind of headache it was to make/program the tapes themselves... and everything had to be proof read manually...

a single typo/mis punched tape and whoops... you just crashed the headstock of your multi million dollar machine... 😖