Is it a technological anachronism that such a high-end industry as building airplanes still has a lot of handmade manufacturing?

Making a thing, not that as long as the most cutting-edge technology can completely guarantee the quality, the technology instead does not lie in how cutting-edge but in whether it is just right.

The most fragrant must be mother's cooking, the most expensive luxury must be handmade

There is a period of time on the aesthetics design, called:Post-modernism. It dates from the 1920s and 1930s, a period when industrial mass production was maturing. During this period people in the field of aesthetics criticized classicism (i.e. traditional baroque, gothic architecture) and wanted to acquire another kind of beauty called mass beauty.

The emergence of Pop Art and post-modern design concepts like the Bauhaus School became popular. People realized that the Industrial Revolution was not just about heavy production, but also about quality of life.

(Bauhaus Design School)

Of course, I do not say this image, so we see the streets of modern society, everywhere you can see the building, utilizing the design of a large piece of glass, office chairs are simple metal tubes, these we take for granted the design of the beginning of the post-modern aesthetics brought about by the most direct product.

The combination of postmodern and industrial aesthetics brought about the most mass produced things, but equally the coldest machines.

As we began to utilize machines for mass, repetitive production, an even more ancient form of manufacturing began to fade into oblivion:Handmade.

When there were no machines, it was making a chair by hand, hence the carpenter, tailoring a garment by hand, hence the tailor, making a bowl of food by hand, hence the chef, the pastry chef. These professions still exist today, but one day they will be obsolete because of machines.

When people realized the value of handmade, there were expensive bags like Chanel, top-of-the-line cars like Bentley, and perfect wedding dresses like Sposa?Lucy. Handmade is the most expensive, at least in terms of price. What do people really realize? Is handmade really worth it?

The value of handmade is that it passes through the hands of a human being, stained with the temperature of a human being, the emotions of a human being, and creates a unique thing in the world. This statement is very materialistic, but you can not deny that the same is the tomato scrambled eggs, why the family to do will be more delicious? It's the same dress, why does a customized one fit better? It's the same chair, why is an old carpenter's made stronger and more solid than a machine cut one?

I can't give you a definitive answer, but I'm sure:Handmade has a price and a value, and the more advanced our technology is, the more the times progress, the more irreplaceable it will seem.

Aircraft manufacturing is one of the most high-end manufacturing industries, but handmade manufacturing is the most high-end embodiment of technology

Handmade manufacturing is an irreplaceable level of machine manufacturing, because people have feelings and thoughts, while machines only have programs. This is the reason why AI can outwit a Go master, but can only make bullshit verses.

The top civil airplane manufacturing in the world as we know it is at the Boeing plant in the United States. This is the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant, where Boeing airplanes are sold all over the world, and no one can deny the fact that Boeing airplanes are the leading airplanes in the world.

But every airplane made here is assembled by hand. Isn't it amazing that in the United States, where industrialization and automation are the most advanced, and where the manufacturing industry is the most sophisticated, people are replacing machines to create airplanes that the world marvels at?

How many people does it take to assemble an airplane? Thousands of senior mechanics, they have their own rhythm and tacit understanding, screw a nut machine can do, but he can not judge how to tighten and loosen the nut is the most appropriate, but people can. Purely handcrafted assembly is what Boeing Airplanes is most proud of. (Watch: Superfactory of the Boeing 747-8)

Manufacturing is the pinnacle of human technology, and airplane manufacturing, as a high-end manufacturing industry, is not about the machine's accurate calculation of each part, but rather about the machinist's ability to use his or her own experience to get it just right.