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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I see no reason they can’t just be configured on the tool itself and not need a network connection.

Say you've got a couple dozen of these wrenches and during retooling new specs come out. You can either pay a group of people to go around and upload all the new specs to the tool or push it from a central server to all the tools.

[–] froh42 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Boeing Boeing Boeing Boeing...

  • Hey Joe, is this set up for the correct specs for the plug doors?

  • Bert, don't ask such things, else we'll be here until night. Just fix those darn bolts with it, then let's go for a drink.

[–] dual_sport_dork 1 points 11 months ago

You can either pay a group of people

So, like, the guys who are holding the wrenches all day to begin with?

Even so, none of the examples anyone has come up with in this thread have required having the friggin' things connected to the internet. That's our beef here. Not necessarily networking capability.

In fact, back when I was in automation (in the dark ages of ~2008) it was already considered unthinkable not to air-gap all of your mission critical production equipment. A ton of that stuff was networked, sure (and you'd shit a brick if you saw how much of it is still interconnected with RS-485 serial...) but not exposed to the outside world in any capacity. Nor would anyone want it to be, for obvious not-getting-pwned reasons.