Machine capabilities

The machine is intentionally leaving them off because its feeling an age bias? Or decides to drop them after vision on the way to placement, or...? What's the root cause?

Just curious...

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Are Any of you driving the same vehicle you drove 20 years ago? With most, if not all of you answering no, why not? Shouldn't regular maintenance keep the vehicle running well past 200,000, 300,00 or even 500,000 miles?

My boss also thinks that with regular maintenance our pick-n-place machine should run the same performance levels as when it was new 15 years ago. We all know that even with regular maintenance, as a machine gets older more things start to wear down or break down. There gets to be a point where the down time and maintenance costs exceed the costs of getting a newer machine.

I am all for maintaining a machine and getting the most use out of it you can. However, there does come a point where the costs of keeping an older machine running well are outweighed by the benefits of getting a newer machine. Trying to convince management that this point comes sooner rather than later is often a hard thing to do.

Good luck. It has taken a major breakdown plus showing my boss the increased time our operators are putting in tweaking the settings on our machine to finally convince her that a newer machine is needed.

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