Does factory-floor experience beat a CS degree for manufacturing software projects?

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Software teams often know the stack but not the reality of a shift change, equipment downtime, missing parts, or an operator trying to finish a job under pressure. Meanwhile someone who has spent a decade on the floor may know exactly where every process breaks but lack formal programming training.

With coding agents lowering the prototyping barrier, is domain knowledge becoming the bigger advantage for certain internal software projects? Or does technical depth still decide whether the thing survives production?
 
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