https://besok.github.io/tags/hitl/ Recent content in Hitl on besok Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://besok.github.io/posts/humans-as-exception-handlers/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://besok.github.io/posts/humans-as-exception-handlers/ <h1 id="rethinking-lights-out-what-if-we-architected-humans-as-exception-handlers">Rethinking &ldquo;Lights Out&rdquo;: What If We Architected Humans as Exception Handlers?</h1> <p><img src="output.jpg" alt="logo"></p> <p>When we talk about Industry 4.0, it&rsquo;s hard to avoid the idea of &ldquo;Lights Out Manufacturing&rdquo; — the vision of fully autonomous, human-free factories where production runs endlessly in the dark.</p> <p>And to be fair, I can see how that&rsquo;s a realistic target for certain environments. If you&rsquo;re working with highly predictable, uniform materials like PCB assembly, high-volume injection molding, or machining standardized metals, the physical inputs are incredibly consistent. You generally know exactly how a block of aluminum or a spool of copper wire is going to behave every single time, which means you can model those interactions almost perfectly in a digital twin. In those tightly controlled spaces, the variables are known and the materials are uniform, and I completely get why automating the human out of the loop is the ultimate goal.</p>