Allowance for robot self-replication in industrial automation

For the determinate and probabilistic cases of industrial automation where the technological operations are executed with probabilities 1 and less than 1, respectively, the use of the self-replicating robots was considered. It was demonstrated that in order to minimize the cost of product the technological operations must be either all automated or all executed manually. It was proved that in the probabilistic case there exist situations where costs can be minimized if all technological operations of a certain type must Le automated for manufacturing the robots (products) and executed manually fur manufacturing the products (robots).