[FuckOffNeemo]

Seconding what anitil said above/below me.

I've friends who work as instrument technicians/engineers on embedded systems in manufacturing and have worked in Europe, UK and Australia in food manufacturing, mechanical, water collection and water processing.

The one constant I've heard is that all of their hardware is almost or is out of support, when it breaks, they expect band aid fixes and ironically none or very little of them can accept any downtime. There's no hardware redundancy for their production lines and when anything breaks, it's all hands on deck. Yet there's no funding going back into the production lines to pro-actively repair or minimise their risks. Manufacturing it seems to me is 100% a reactive industry.

The industries above work on incredibly small margins of profit and the sheer expense to outfit and refit these aging, decrepit (but still working!) production lines are quite honestly, massive.

These manufacturers won't invest in these engineering faults (whether it's security or production focused) until they've been fucked.

NB: This might be with the exception of Lego, my cousin who got employed by Lego after finishing his masters in Industrial Design & CS, and after reading and watching some articles on Lego. I'm convinced Lego's margins are a lot larger than most. They might be the closest thing to a FAANG company when it comes to investment in phu7sical engineering and manufacturing.