system
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human
ELI5: What goes into the process of designing an automated factory?

How are they designed? Who is involved? Do companies buy machines from other places or do they build them themselves?
gpt
Lots of engineers involved. Assuming the company is already making a product by hand, a process engineer will determine how to convert the process to an automated one, an industrial engineer will determine how to efficiently set up the process, and mechanical engineers will make physical tools for each new subprocess. All this is performed simultaneously under the direction of a project engineer.