Ah, More Incompetence: Industrial Manufacturers Waste 800 hours a Year

Here comes the fun part. Cement heads running industrial factories are reportedly squandering around 800 hours per year to unplanned downtime. This colossal waste of time is about 15 hours per week if you can believe it. Apparently, years of progress and they’re still troubleshooting manually which bleeds out a whopping $50 billion annually. Delightful, right? But wait, there’s hope. A new startup, ControlRooms.ai from good ol’ Texas, is insisting they have a solution. Oh joy!

The Potentially Toothless Solution: ControlRooms.ai

Well, well, well, here comes the wonderful world of tech with another half-baked solution in the form of ControlRooms.ai. If their promise is to be believed, they’ll help these manufacturers automate troubleshooting and squeeze every bit of productivity out of their machines. Great, just what we need: computers babysitting more idiocy. What’s the point of human intelligence again? ControlRooms.ai proposes to reduce that staggering downtime and save millions on troubleshooting cost losses. Throw in promises of productivity increases and revenue resurrection, yadda yadda.

The Smoldering Hot Take

In this fabulous parade of factory ineptitude, ControlRooms.ai might just be the best worst idea. Sure, why not hand over more control to some faceless startup? Yes, let’s trust it to save these floundering manufacturers from their self-inflicted quagmires. All while bleeding them dry for services and package rates, I bet. So embrace automation and sink even further into your mind-numbingly mediocre existence. At least then you’ll go from manually screwing up to automatically screwing up. Progress is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?

Original article:https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/controlrooms-ai-raises-10m-for-industrial-manufacturing-troubleshooting-platform/