Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Engineering solution???




 
THE BRIDGES OF COOK COUNTY: I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MANY BRIDGES IN ONE CITY IN MY LIFE.  When I first came to the United States from the Philippines islands where there were no metal and steel bridges just wood or stone cement, I'd look up in awe as the bridges would go up to allow the boats to pass by in the Chicago River.  I was not the only one - people would go out of their cars just to wait and see.


Central Edinburg, SCOTLAND

Stockton-on-Tees Burough, ENGLAND



Copied from the Suez Canal

Amazing engineering how these trains go around the spiral




Not good enough for thousands of Chinese migrant workers as they go home for the New Year holiday.  Sometimes they have to wait a week.

You should see Paris Rail Yard

Hard to figure out


A piece of cake for my bro as we drove to New Orleans



I've been to Copenhagen Airport twice and didn't know it looks like a giant paper plane



Cool job working at -57 degrees

Roald Amundsen - he went to the South Pole the Norwegian Way

Reminds me of my first visit to Manhattan

What an amazing feat of digging
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@ Kuya Bernie

 It's good to be simple-minded.  A cheap and good solution!  I wonder what toothpaste factory had this problem?  I use Colgate brand and so far there's a tube inside.

Thanks for sharing.

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:28:43 -0800
From: bmsorianojr
Subject: Fw: Engineering solution???
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Hindi na pala kailangan ng $8 M, eh! $20 lang, solved na ang problema!


Engineering solution


(You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story but it helps !!!! )

A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timing so precise that every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time. Small variations in the environment (which can’t be controlled in a cost-effective fashion) mean you must have quality assurance checks smartly distributed across the line so that customers all the way down to the supermarket don’t get ticked-off and buy another product instead.


Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory got the top people in the company together and they decided to start a new project, in which they would hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem, as their engineering department was already too stretched to take on any extra effort.


The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution — on time, on budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. They solved the problem by using high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box out of it, pressing another button when done to re-start the line.


A while later, the CEO decides to have a look at the ROI of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. Very few customer complaints, and they were gaining market share. “That’s some money well spent!” – he says, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report.

It turns out, the number of defects picked up by the scales was 0, after three weeks of production use. It should’ve been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He launched an investigation, and after some work, the engineers come back saying the report was actually correct. The scales really weren't picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.

Puzzled, the CEO traveled down to the factory, and walked up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed.

A few feet before the scale, there was a $20 desk fan, blowing any empty boxes off of the belt and into a bin.


“Oh, that,” says one of the workers — “one of the guys put it there ’cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang”.


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