This image represents my best attempt at automating the manufacture of Winches. Takes soil as input, as well as some of the output scrap.

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4 Canisters of Soil inserted at Centrifuges A produce 8 Organic & 8 Resin. 8 Organic & 8 Resin produces 8 Rubber at Chem Station B, sent to the far side of the image to printers on Platform I; to prevent overloading, it can only populate some of the slots in the Medium Storages on that platform.

Arm at C takes some of the Scrap from the XL Shredder platform and fills Tall Platform D. Once Platform D is full with 6 Scrap, Arm C is disabled and Arm E is enabled, filling Trade Platform F with exactly 6 Scrap. Once D is emptied, C and E toggle again, in addition to sending the Scrap off to trade for Wolframite.

Arm G takes the Wolframite off the Trade Platform, putting it on platform H to be smelted; a Storage Sensor disables the Smelter in the event we start overflowing on Tungsten. An arm feeds Tungsten to Platform I. Again, it can only reach some of the slots, to prevent overloading.

Small Printers on Platform I take both Rubber and Tungsten to make Winches. Unfortunately, they're triggered manually, via button south of Platform D. Once the printers finish printing, the output is picked up by an arm to be put on Platform J, to be manually picked up by an Astroneer, unpacked, and fed into the XL Shredder.

In the end, 1.5 Scrap 0.5 Canisters of Soil becomes 2.5 Scrap. Since I end up dumping in all four Soil at once, that generates 8 new Scrap from their product.

Manual commands are feeding Soil, activating Centrifuges, triggering the Small Printers, unpacking the Winches, and shredding the Winches. I would like to figure out how to manipulate the system so as to eliminate those as well. The former two might be solved using some Storage Sensors looking for Empty on an "XL Platform C" and keeping a Medium Soil Canister or two on it. I don't think there's a way to handle the latter two. The Small Printer triggers seem to have been done before, and I need to research how.