Hello Ergest, you dont know this, but I started my career in IT in steel plate manufacturing. The mill i worked in in Wollongong Australia was the only steel plate manufacturing plant in Australia.
Our steel plates were used in skyscraper construction, ship building, building of oil rigs, pipeline construction. You name it. If it needed flat steel plate it came out of our mill.
Of course the variations in the plates was very wide both from tye physical dimensions to the chemical composition. And every order was manufactured to order then. There was no such thing as a "standard steel plate".
When a plate was rejected we used to scrap it. The system is worked on had a feature called "reallocation" where it was able to take a plate that was not fit for the order it was manufactured to and then see if there was an order it could be used to partly fulfill.
My first job was the test house. Depending on many factors samples had to be cut off plates and the samples were subjected to many tests to ensure the plates were fit for purpose of the order. Plates that were shipped that were found to be not fit for purpose were shipped back to us at our cost which could be tens of thousands of dollars in those days.
The system i worked on was called the certification system. It recorded all the test results from the test house and if the plates complied a certificate would be produced. This was a legal document certifying the plates were fit for purpose.
The semi trailer drivers were trained to have the certificates in their hands and as each plate was loaded on to their truck they were to read the plate number stamped on the plate and marry it up with the plate number on the certificate. If the plate put on the truck was not on a certificate in his hand he told the crane operator to remove it. Thats how this went.
Our system was able to reduce wastage from over 20 percent to below 2 percent which, at the time, was the best in the world.
Just thought you would like to hear that story. That was 1982 I worked on that system. And then I supported the whole mills computer systems single handedly for 2 years as a trainee. I got 50+ calls a day and was working 60 hour weeks plus doing a full time university load. Fun times.
Wow amazing! Yeah most data professionals didn’t even think about this type of work being analytical but it is and it drives far more progress than some SaaS.
Hello Ergest, you dont know this, but I started my career in IT in steel plate manufacturing. The mill i worked in in Wollongong Australia was the only steel plate manufacturing plant in Australia.
Our steel plates were used in skyscraper construction, ship building, building of oil rigs, pipeline construction. You name it. If it needed flat steel plate it came out of our mill.
Of course the variations in the plates was very wide both from tye physical dimensions to the chemical composition. And every order was manufactured to order then. There was no such thing as a "standard steel plate".
When a plate was rejected we used to scrap it. The system is worked on had a feature called "reallocation" where it was able to take a plate that was not fit for the order it was manufactured to and then see if there was an order it could be used to partly fulfill.
My first job was the test house. Depending on many factors samples had to be cut off plates and the samples were subjected to many tests to ensure the plates were fit for purpose of the order. Plates that were shipped that were found to be not fit for purpose were shipped back to us at our cost which could be tens of thousands of dollars in those days.
The system i worked on was called the certification system. It recorded all the test results from the test house and if the plates complied a certificate would be produced. This was a legal document certifying the plates were fit for purpose.
The semi trailer drivers were trained to have the certificates in their hands and as each plate was loaded on to their truck they were to read the plate number stamped on the plate and marry it up with the plate number on the certificate. If the plate put on the truck was not on a certificate in his hand he told the crane operator to remove it. Thats how this went.
Our system was able to reduce wastage from over 20 percent to below 2 percent which, at the time, was the best in the world.
Just thought you would like to hear that story. That was 1982 I worked on that system. And then I supported the whole mills computer systems single handedly for 2 years as a trainee. I got 50+ calls a day and was working 60 hour weeks plus doing a full time university load. Fun times.
Wow amazing! Yeah most data professionals didn’t even think about this type of work being analytical but it is and it drives far more progress than some SaaS.