Grimmy
02-08-2003, 07:13 AM
Most of this is posted elsewhere, but I just had to vent a little, and THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!!!!! Oh, and I don't have to work the weekend, and go to pick up my 4 wheeler tomarrow and go on a ride party!!!! Here is a little how my friday went. How did your's go??
I just had a bad night, and well it isn't going to be a pleasant week next week. In a nut shell, we are stamping place, we make automobile parts for the big 3 and some others as well. We just got our newest press running, which is a 2000 ton press. The die that we have for it, the first half of the statios are sheet fed, meaning they are still attached. Then last have of the die, we have a transfer system that has fingers made by tool and die that go in pick up the part, and transfer it to the next station and get out of the way before the press comes back down. This 2000 ton press is dam fast, we had it running at 20 strokes or parts per minute, which when you think about the size of the part and the tonnage needed to create and bend steel over 1/8th inch think, it is fast.
Well something happened, I wasn't there and the transfer stopped, but didn't send a signal to the press control to stop, with the fingers in the die transfering, down came the press, CRUNCH!! There are sensors on the fingers to make sure there is a part there, and what I think happened or the reason the press didn't cycle all the way through, was because one of the sesors senced that a part was no longer there and it stopped. Man did it fvch shlt up though. Good thing I am not a tool and die person.
On top of that, out general manager announced that we are in a slump for business. We just got a $30 million dollar job in, but doesn't start till 2004. In June this year, a lot of jobs will be finished, and only have to run service parts, one shift, maybe 1-2 days a week or month. So money is tight, they are cutting all overtime (which I could care less about, more weekends for me )
I just had a bad night, and well it isn't going to be a pleasant week next week. In a nut shell, we are stamping place, we make automobile parts for the big 3 and some others as well. We just got our newest press running, which is a 2000 ton press. The die that we have for it, the first half of the statios are sheet fed, meaning they are still attached. Then last have of the die, we have a transfer system that has fingers made by tool and die that go in pick up the part, and transfer it to the next station and get out of the way before the press comes back down. This 2000 ton press is dam fast, we had it running at 20 strokes or parts per minute, which when you think about the size of the part and the tonnage needed to create and bend steel over 1/8th inch think, it is fast.
Well something happened, I wasn't there and the transfer stopped, but didn't send a signal to the press control to stop, with the fingers in the die transfering, down came the press, CRUNCH!! There are sensors on the fingers to make sure there is a part there, and what I think happened or the reason the press didn't cycle all the way through, was because one of the sesors senced that a part was no longer there and it stopped. Man did it fvch shlt up though. Good thing I am not a tool and die person.
On top of that, out general manager announced that we are in a slump for business. We just got a $30 million dollar job in, but doesn't start till 2004. In June this year, a lot of jobs will be finished, and only have to run service parts, one shift, maybe 1-2 days a week or month. So money is tight, they are cutting all overtime (which I could care less about, more weekends for me )