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Pretty amazing story!

• pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  I find it very hard to believe: as soon as he mentioned removing small empty boxes the idea of a fan leapt to mind; I really can't imagine that none of the team already operating the factory thought of this solution.
  • Retric 15y ago
    The only problem IMO is it's not vary reliable without something to detect the fan is still working.
    • runningdogx 15y ago
      The alarms would start going off again when empty boxes reached the precision scales. Behold, an $8mil broken-fan detector.
      • jcitme 15y ago
        Let's start making it more complicated again! Wind meter on the other side of the conveyer belt and an air horn whenever it drops below a certain level...
      • jcitme 15y ago
        Let's start making it more complicated again! Wind meter on the other side of the conveyer belt and an air horn whenever it drops below a certain level...
    • damncabbage 15y ago
      Two fans!
    • pbhjpbhj 15y ago
      Like someone said, two fans for live redundancy, little lengths of ribbon for visual failure indication. I'd have thought a couple of fans checked once a day would provide less failures than are significant. This doesn't seem like a reason not to propose the system, the alternate proposed solution would have similar failure modes too.