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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

The speed of the conveyor belt does not impact the cycle time. No you cannot fucking slow down the conveyor belt to make it so you can work slower. You can’t speed it up to make people work faster. The speed of the fucking conveyor belt determines how long the things stay on the fucking conveyor belt. If it’s too slow things just stack up on it

Sorry, fucking line workers, managers, and executives in a factory…

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Okay I hear you, but have we tried speeding up the conveyor belt?

[–] thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

If you could speed the conveyor belt up, that would be greeeeat.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

sighs and speeds it up sure whatever vp,

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Just stick a speed module into the workers. That should help. May increase their power consumption though

[–] Sizzler@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Expected Factorio.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

An analogy to thinking faster conveyers means faster production is thinking faster speed limits on the highways leads to higher reproduction rates (or faster graduation or whatever).

One thing it will affect is how long a part takes to go from initial production to release. But there's a trade-off with how many products are "in fight" at once.