• invertedspear@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    A train sends 100 cargo boxes from town A to B in an hour. It takes 4 hours to put all the boxes in, and 5 hours to pull the boxes off the train and stack them in the yard

    Conveyer sends 1 box every 6 minutes for 10 hours.

    Same throughput, but one is easier to schedule workers around at both ends. I’ve never worked in a train yard or anything, don’t know how accurate my time frames are or anything, just trying to imagine what’s better about this.

    • jumperalex@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Hmmm certainly something to think about. Like I said, skeptical but also asking about what I hadn’t thought of [cheers]