New Equipment Update

As you may already know, we bought some new equipment yesterday.  If you include the shipment of used sprue pickers, dryers, and blenders we got this week,  here is where we stand-  We have 7 sprue pickers, 3 mold machines, 5 robots (maybe 6), 3 dryers, 4 dryer/hopper/loader combos, 7 conveyor belts, and 2 blenders to get installed and running.  PLUS- keeping the floor running, Eagle and Pilot launches. The next few weeks and months should be pretty crazy around here.

This stuff won’t ship until the week of the 14^th.  Until then we need to be finishing Eagle and Pilot projects and working on new robot installations.  Once the new equipment gets here, priority shifts to getting the three new machines running with robots and support equipment.  Then we will focus on the remaining robot and aux. equipment installations.

OF THE SPRUE PICKERS WE GOT THIS WEEK-  Most of them are located in the storage trailer next to the pallet room.  I have 5 more pendants coming next week.  We need to pick out the best of the following sizes-  (3) 550 models, (2) 750 models, and (2) 900 models.  They will go on MP’s 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 22.  Get them in the shop and de-bugged and then see what needs to be done to mount them on the machines.  We should probably save a couple of the remaining pickers for future use and rob spare parts off the others.  I will work on the machine interfaces.  We are going to need all the spare room we can for new stuff coming in.

Contact me with any questions.  Just dig in and I will keep all of you updated.

Thanks for all your efforts.

  Joshua Ledbetter

  Manufacturing Engineer

  Oreck Manufacturing Company

  931-239-3235

 

Water System

We cleaned the filter screens on all the presses tonight. They were very bad, I think this has been affecting thermolator performance.

Sean

Mezzanine room electrical.

What I thought was a bad breaker the other day turned out to be a burnt wire nut.

Tonight there was a repeat incident on the junction bux just up from it for dryers 8 and 9.

Might want to watch for that in the future.

Sean

MP4 Robot Stopping

What is causing MP4 to stop with the robot above the mold and the machine displaying “Eject Forward Permission Not Made” alarm is this-

When the clamp opens fast, the ejectors are drifting past the eject retract set point (Menu 41, Input 121).  The robot will not go into the mold without this input.  We will repair the drifting problem asap, but in the meanwhile, make sure your retract set point is back far enough to compensate for this.

Thanks

 

  Joshua Ledbetter

  Manufacturing Engineer

  Oreck Manufacturing Company

  931-239-3235

 

DR-7 Breaker out in Mezz room.

The Breaker needs replaced in Panel DH1, could not locate a 20 Amp. I will check with Mark or Gary to see if they know where one is.

Sean

D-shift core problems on #10.

Had some problems with the core set switch not reading correctly.

The symptom was that the set switch would not make at first try in manual, but, when you set it the second time it would make.

I went through checking for loose connections, replaced the switch, and the relay module (110vac), but no change.

We found that pressure was only 500psi.

Although no adjustments had been done on press#10, we adjusted V225 pressure relief valve to 1550 and had no further problems.

This is interesting because the press was running when the fault occurred.

Sean

Phone post test

"C" Shift

  Well, they jammed another grinder with santoprene . I spent 2 hours disassembling the grinder. It’s going to take awhile to clean this one out.

 

 I spent most of the rest of the day trying to finish up PMs.

 

                                                                                                                                             

             

 

 

                                                                                                                                                             R. Upchurch

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