This Week

We should have all the vertical conveyors wired now.  (Interroll)

 

The butterfly bolts broke out of MP20 on Thursday, on inspection the bushing was wore out, the steel has many stress cracks in it.  A new butterfly plate is $3K.  So we replaced the bushing and broken bolts, faced off the knock out rods and put it back into production.  The plan is to replace the press on the next go round.  This is the second time in 2 weeks that I know about.

 

The new CPU and FHD boards came in for MP5, also the FHD protection kit.  I set the jumpers on the boards like the old ones and installed them and the protection kit. 

 

The table for the new hydraulic hose crimper and cut saw is complete and located behind the flammables cabinet in the shop. 

 

Gary made (3) communication tables w/ boards.  We ran out of feet for the legs, so when more come in we will install.  Extra com board lexan sheets are located on top of the flammable cabinet in the shop.

 

When I came in Friday, Darrell said MP23 was down.  Nozzle zone wasn’t heating.  A 12A fuse was blown and it was an odd fuse, couldn’t find one so I temporarily installed a fuse block w/ fuse we had in stock.  I will order some additional fuse blocks because I think the other new machines have these odd fuses.  I will put them in the project cabinet.

 

Someone requested a new hydraulic hose and it is laying on the molding maintenance table.

 

I took inventory of the Dummy plugs we are missing for the robots that are installed and we need (4) more made.  I will try to do that today and get them attached to the corresponding press.

 

Fastenal has been in this week trying to fill in the voids on our fasteners.  They will consolidate all of the metric bolts to one area with the smaller ones (m3 and m4) in drawers.  They are going to leave a dry erase board back in the bolt bin area so we can write down items we need as we identify them.

Fastenal will organize all our bins for us.

 

We mounted the remaining Eagle nests on the nutrunner stations and rolled them to the molding equipment storage area by the racking.  Still need to do the electrical controls, plc, program for the sole plate press.  (It has guards in place and can be run pneumatically for now.)

 

I ordered new bolts for the end cap on the barrel on MP5.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark McKee

Technical Specialist

Oreck Manufacturing Company

1400 Salem Rd

Cookeville,  TN  38506

mmckee@oreck.com

PH      931.646.7856

CELL  931.644.5289

FAX    931.646.7851