What did you do to your Volvo today? Topic is solved

[bmdubya1198]

Yeah, I was at a Circle K a few weeks ago (I rarely go to convenience stores) and was amazed by the "smart checkout" they have. You place the items under the scanner thing, and it detects the items to ring them up. I have no idea how it works, but it's wild.

[scot850]

I watched a show from the UK called Car SOS. They were rebuilding a JCB back hoe for a deserving person. The one presenter visited JCB's warehouse and it was amazing. Computer controlled warehouse and picking system. The system even worked out if a part was ordered more often, to move the bin the part was in closer to the shipping area to cut down on wait time!

If you get the opportunity to watch it, it is just amazing!

Neil.

[abscate]

Exhaust manifold nut 23 Nm. Forearm strength on a 6-8 inch ratchet

You have to get a impact zip tool for these m a flex extension, and a deep socket. Suddenly this job is 10 minutes. The impact extension takes them down to contact, one nip with the handle and it’s done

It didn't help that I was using the wrong socket size. The old nuts are 13mm, then new ones I discovered are 12mm. I spent an eternity trying to tighten the nuts while making zero progress.

I had the same experience with a bag of manifold m8s, some were 13s

Don’t forget to log that

[P80GLT]

Gave the 850 its second wash of the year ready for the Dumfries show at the weekend, then fillled it up with some E5. Looking at the forecast I might need my wellies.

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The 850 used to be a mid size car but sitting in the forecourt it looks tiny against modern junk

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[abscate]

Make sure you Hoover lines are aligned with the stripes, please. We have standards here

[P80GLT]

That's last year's stripes, they will be tidied up when I arrive at the show

[Sveedy]

Very cool !
And I like the offset stripes. I didn't realize that the carpet nap was long enough to do that.

[abscate]

There’s a great price on USA “ we won the World Cup again 2023” signage for a cover

[CIK7]

Very cool !
And I like the offset stripes. I didn't realize that the carpet nap was long enough to do that.

Mine isnt.

[MrAl]

Maybe what we need is an automatic cataloging system. Like a video camera that goes 24/7 that films everything that comes in the door and where we place it. Then all we would have to do is watch over 1000 hours of film to find it (ha ha ha).
Maybe an automatic 'scanner' built just for this. Wave the part over the scanner and it catalogs it along with a photo or two, but somehow it would also have to catalog where it is placed for storage.

That would be incredibly handy!

Part of my current studies touches upon systems like this. Training a system to be able to detect objects is the fairly easy part at this point with what people have developed. The harder part now is doing useful stuff with the algorithms and systems.

We used to stick barcodes on tools that were laser ablated onto steel tabs so they wouldnt wipe off. The biggest issue we had was that people did not want to take the time to scan the code. The best system we could think of was a small RFID tag put in each piece of tooling that would auto scan when one walks through a door, and linked to their key access fob. Never implemented but a fun plan.

For personal storage i would just have a designated dropoff with a more or less up to date of what is in that drop off bucket. When you pull a bucket out you bring it to a spot which takes a picture of it once you are done with it.

Hi,

Yes I understand what you mean. There seems to be a gap between the logical design of things and the human interactive factors.
I had a similar experience. Back way before AI, I was part of the team that designed a high precision weigh scale made for pharmaceutical companies that wanted to be able to weigh animal organs as part of their feedback with experimental drugs. When we designed the push button to perform the 'tare' function (zeros out the scale with nothing on it) we all pushed it and it worked perfectly. Some weeks later when it was shipped out, the researcher that operated the machine had a slightly different way of pushing the button, and it didn't work most of the time for her. Had to fly all the way out to Indiana to perform a modification. It was crazy just for that. You would think people would press buttons the same way, but apparently that's definitely not the case as I learned the hard way.

I have a feeling things like this happen all the time. Recently I read about a small Molex RF connector that had a small notch at the lower left-hand corner. The notch is there so auto insertion machinery could place the part on the PC board with the correct orientation. With the notch there, the 'signal' pin was at the bottom, and the 'ground' pin was at the top. Well, somebody at Molex messed up by moving the notch to the upper right-hand corner, and although they changed the mechanical drawing, they did not change the part number. Now when someone orders that part and has it run through the auto insertion and wave soldering process, the signal pin ends up on the top and the ground pin on the bottom. That effectively shorts out the signal pin from the PC board and also shorts out the signal pin from the outside world through the connector. Big mess up. I am still in the process of trying to find out what the hell happened. That's not a typical way to handle part changes, by any standard I know of, except for the standard of human stupidity.