M-5 Computer in relation to Toyota

In the recent Star Trek episode we watched in class it talked about the wonderful M-5 computer. This computer basically ran the ship by itself, thus allowing the ship to be run with less amount of people and allowed the ship to do more things. The only reason people were on the ship was to make sure everything was running as it should. Last semester i was fortunate enough to tour the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY. This M-5 computer reminded me of the plant in Georgetown. Their were robots that actually did the work for the people. The persons job was just to inspect the part after it was finished, to make sure is up to Toyota standards. These robot save a bunch of time in the production of cars. Toyota says they average 30 plus cars rolling off the assembly line every hour. In the episode, the M-5 computer started to mal-function and it was really hard if not imposible to fix. While i was their on of the robots started to mal-function also. Toyota said that everytime on of these robots mal-function it costs them anywhere from 5 to 10 cars in delay time. This is equal to lost money. Another thing i found real interesting, was Toyota had robots called A.G.V.'s, which stands for Automatic Guided Vehicles. These A.V.G.'s were computerized vehicles that take particular parts to different parts of the plant without the operation of a human being. They are computerized so the vehicle knows exactly were to turn and stop. So i felt that was pretty cool.