you ever have one of those days...

[jseger]

                        

 

         

you ever have one of those days.  where you just want to smash something.   

you know, i don't ever have any problems with robots around here ever.  and everytime something goes wrong everyone blames the robots.     

they want to set up an automatic cell so they buy a robot, but don't spend any money one anything else.  i mean we even build our own safety fence.  so they just expect the robot to do everything and anything.

i've been in manufacturing automation for 10 years and it never ever changes.  "we never have enough money."     well someone has enough money and if we don't do it they will.  i'm going to go relax.    

[CRachek]

I can be that other happy face toasting a beer with you because I can feel your pain.

My favorite one is when the robot has crashed into the wall of the machine and the operator will tell me that the robot "just took off by itself".  I know that the robot has been running the same program for years and never had an issue, then only to later find out that someone was manually jogging the robot and crashed it.

Instead of telling me the truth they let me spend hours looking at the robot trying to figure out how it could have taken off by itself.

[somar]

or when the process is controlled by a PLC and the robot crashes because it was sent to do the wrong job and everybody look at you with the "why did YOU crash the robot" look.

Helloooooooooo, the robot's been running for months, it does wht the PLC tells it to do, check the PLC code

[jseger]

I know all about the robot idiosincracies.  They robot runs fine all day and then on second shift it tears the door off the machine or another robot welds the part to the fixture.  And nobody knows what happened.     (that is someone fiddling with the robot.)

    (this is me finding out someone was fiddling with the robot)