bob1371
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After 2 years of being a Maintenance Supervisor for a CNC machine shop I finally gave it up and went to 3rd shift as a regular Maint Tech. The people my company was hiring had little or no experience, the engineering staff was of very little help and things were just becoming a mess. 3rd shift works out great but I do follow a 2nd shift crew that has about 8 months experience combined (3 guys).
I came in last night to something that just amazed me. I have to share this with everyone. We have a Mazak VMC3016 pallet change cnc machine. For some reason it would no longer execute the M911 or M912 commands (pallet change). They called one of the Engineers in and found that the only way to get it to work was to hit the Cycle Start button at Operator position then goto main panel and hit cycle start. To keep from having the operator walk around machine each cycle here is what they came up with after much thought.
(2 wires and a push button would have been so much easier)
unfourtunately it is still like this as they would not allow me any time due to production requirements.
I came in last night to something that just amazed me. I have to share this with everyone. We have a Mazak VMC3016 pallet change cnc machine. For some reason it would no longer execute the M911 or M912 commands (pallet change). They called one of the Engineers in and found that the only way to get it to work was to hit the Cycle Start button at Operator position then goto main panel and hit cycle start. To keep from having the operator walk around machine each cycle here is what they came up with after much thought.
(2 wires and a push button would have been so much easier)
unfourtunately it is still like this as they would not allow me any time due to production requirements.