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November 2022 #14280 Page #52
A Weekend Install and a Packers Home Game
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he majority of our machinery installs are requested to be done over a weekend, usually starting on Friday. A weekend install requires key personnel to give up their weekend in order to minimize production interruption. The weekend of September 30, 2022 in Green Bay, WI was a Edmond Lim, P.Eng. particularly challenging weekend installation because an existing RetroC had LimTek Solutions Inc. to be shut down in order to be upgraded with 70 ft of auto feed live deck, and concurrently a 250 ft Lumber PickLine had to be constructed — and there was a Packers home game on Sunday to boot! For this plant, the 70 ft of “actively passive” auto feeding live deck was replacing two full-time forklifts. The biggest fear factor was the thought of implementing just-in-time material feeding. The two full-time forklifts used to pick several jobs ahead in order to keep up with the RetroC to minimize saw idle time. Just-in-time in-line material feeding is possible because the RetroC is that reliable, and that fast. The goal for the weekend installation team was to improve material in-feed to the RetroC to utilize as much of the RetroC’s unused capacity and to finish before Sunday’s 3:25 pm kickoff time. Packers fans are some of the best and loudest in the NFL and the weekend installation team was no exception, pushing to finish early to enjoy Green Bay becoming a huge tailgate party around Lambeau Field.
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