March 27, 20224 yr Cool setup. Where do I order it? Need to add drilling the end of handles to the sequence. Definitely a factory setup. Be nice if was stacked in the box for shipping.
March 27, 20224 yr Popular Post The job I retired from I was a machine operator, or rather a machine baby sitter for Navistar Corp. I ran a roughing operation for machining connecting rods on 7.3l diesel engines. The machine did 7 separate operations on rods in groups of four. So, at any one time, 28 rods were being machined, cycle time was roughly 25 seconds. The rough stock came in pallets of about 700 rods, they were robotically loaded four at a time. Robots handled the dunnage as well. When my operation was complete rods were robotically loaded to the next operation in groups of four. I changed tools when necessary and did periodic quality checks. On a good 8 hour day I would process 4000+ rods and physically touch 24-40 of them. There were five operations on our line and every 25 seconds it produced four finished rods. When complete the rods were robotically reloaded onto pallets and ready for shipping or assembly. There were actually twin machining lines running at the same time. At that time we were manufacturing approximately 1300 7.3l diesel engines a day and couldn't meet demand. Dan is absolutely right, no matter what you do. There is no job safe from technology. In case you've never seen it, this video is well worth watching, scary, and several years old. Edited March 27, 20224 yr by Steve Krumanaker
March 27, 20224 yr That is pretty danged cool! I love watching it, would not want it, but sure do love watching it!
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