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by whatever1 17 days ago
I wonder whether with AI we will be able to document more efficiently all of the nuances of production so if we need to ramp up a forgotten process we can do it faster.

There is so much domain expertise that exists in production that is not documented, because who has time for writing documentation when your floor is on fire.

But if writing documentation is something free and can be automated (maybe from the company internal comms), maybe we have a chance?

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How would the "AI" figure out what the process is? That's non-sense.
Because of the slack complaints?
Friend, you need to seriously get out of your tech bubble and talk to real workers in person.
The shift managers are on IM, sending email escalations to the site managers for exceptions etc. Definitely at end of shift they do a summary for the handover and regular reporting to leadership. Maybe not slack but they do leave digital traces.

Workers in a well ran assembly line should not have to figure out anything.

I could search for “belt jam” in outlook decades ago. Why do you see it as a difficult technical task? The info is there, nobody has the time to organize it.