On Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:04:49 PM Dave did opine: > >>Would that not be prima faci evidence that a redesign is in order > > Yes, but they are too busy making product to bother with a redesign and > resulting modifications. > > They consider it a CODB. And it is clearly their choice. They have > another machine about 100 feet away that is newer but it chugs along at > only about 15 transfers per minute. The gear boxes last quite a bit > longer but the machine puts out only 62 % of the output.
And they are considering doing a shutdown for a day or 4 while you do your "walk on water" dog & pony show? 1/3rd more output per hour should be attractive to them I'd think. :) > > There are a number of machines that feed this machine and the staffing > is the same whether they run 15 or 24 transfers per minute. The only > significant incremental cost is wear and tear on the machine. A gear > box is about $1200 plus 1-2 hours to install it. So they just keep a > few on the shelf. The last time I was at that plant back in July, I > modified the software and servo setup so when they jam up the machine, > they can recover in a shorter period of time - they might save 30 > seconds or so to clear a jam. If things are running well something > jams up about every 20 minutes or so due to product variations which > they can't control. > > The production people were thrilled! Chuckle, gotta love it, when Momma is happy, everybody is happy. ;-) > The chain is very sturdy so it seems to last for years. > > Dave Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, [email protected], in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
