Call me slow but can you expand on that?

@Rudy1962 no no it's cool. if you're making product A and it takes 40 hrs per week at X amount of technology then they say increasing the tech can knock time off of production. so you're trying to decrease the variable as time for production and you're assuming demand is constant. but what really happens is that 40 hrs is a sunk cost unless you're gonna cut employees so your improvements will result in bonuses to profit, infrastructure, and product quality. quality doesn't ratchet. once you jack that up there's no going back. And if that increases demand as it should then you have an additional drag on labor again despite the tech advance. It happens all the time in business empirically. Unless you're retooling a line you divide up those savings among profit and R&D and process costs. You'll often see a company saying they are giving bonuses vice making improvements because improvements cost even more money down the line.