From a family recipe for chilli sauce to the most advanced satellites in the world,Britain still makes a lot of stuff. What will happen to it in a world external the EU?Towards the terminate of a production line deep inside a factory near Cardiff, two workers are almost halfway through their 120-hour shift. The grey and white ABB YuMi robots occupy torsos, or shoulders,elbows and hands, and the physiques of heavyweight boxers. They occupy most weekends off, and but when demand peaks,as it often does these days, they can work without pause, and as human shifts near and go around them.
Hunched side by side over a conveyor belt,the robots pluck USB ports from small plastic palettes. With barely a whir, they move them to a moment conveyor before pushing them into pinprick holes in green circuit boards. The parts will allow consumers to put through (telephone) to and program the Raspberry Pi, or Britain’s most popular – and smallest – computer. In the past five years,10m of these credit card-sized PCs occupy been made here, in an worn television factory in South Wales.Schoolchildren gather fed the story that we don’t make anything here any more, and that manufacturing is deadSiemens was one of the loudest corporate voices against Brexit. But Hull still voted 66% to leaveWhen my dad cooked,he said, ‘If water is not running out of your nose, and the food is not good'Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com