Painting Factory Tour: How Computer & Vehicle Parts Are Painted Automated Factory Tour
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Date: 2020-05-06
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John
You may not believe this but here goes: I working in a shop with painting rooms/booths where we had a particular problem from a maintenance perspective. Management wanted the booth airflow to vary based upon whether the entrance doors were open or closed. The reason given was that dust could enter the booth with the doors open thus ruining the paint jobs. Also, with the exhaust pulling air into the booth, the doors would slam shut upon closing, knocking dust from the ceiling and door frames. Well, this was an easy fix. magnetic proximity switches were installed to kill the exhaust fans if the doors were opened. The fans were powered through VFD drives so we also ramped the fans up slowly so as to not disturb the environment. Well, after constant complaining about the lighting and air and, and, and we discovered that in between paint runs the booth was used as a sanding booth, creating all the dust that were the basis of the complaints. My point is that after you went thru the dust blowing at the entrance, put on the booties, blew off and wiped any dust from the product to be painted. well, would you paint them in a sanding booth?
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You may not believe this but here goes: I working in a shop with painting rooms/booths where we had a particular problem from a maintenance perspective. Management wanted the booth airflow to vary based upon whether the entrance doors were open or closed. The reason given was that dust could enter the booth with the doors open thus ruining the paint jobs. Also, with the exhaust pulling air into the booth, the doors would slam shut upon closing, knocking dust from the ceiling and door frames. Well, this was an easy fix. magnetic proximity switches were installed to kill the exhaust fans if the doors were opened. The fans were powered through VFD drives so we also ramped the fans up slowly so as to not disturb the environment. Well, after constant complaining about the lighting and air and, and, and we discovered that in between paint runs the booth was used as a sanding booth, creating all the dust that were the basis of the complaints. My point is that after you went thru the dust blowing at the entrance, put on the booties, blew off and wiped any dust from the product to be painted. well, would you paint them in a sanding booth?
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LeXeL
hmm interesting the robotarm looks like an arm for welding and not for painting (this energy supply for the EOT through the arm itself is pretty common on welders) paintrobots typicaly have a different design for the hand to help with straight line movements also i have never seen a paintrobot without a protectiv cover over it, but thats mayby due to LVLP instead HVLP and the need for very strong ventelation with a worker in the same cell thats another point, here in germany if such a set up is checked you can close the factorie till its fixed you have a worker in the same cell as this non collaborative robot and workareas overlap without an obvious way to prevent the robot hitting the worker no hardstop for the arm in place and no light curtains for an approved software solution even the gantry style robots wouldnt be approved and i can tell you the gantry style might hurt, but the 6-axis arm would simply not care if it hits you
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hmm interesting the robotarm looks like an arm for welding and not for painting (this energy supply for the EOT through the arm itself is pretty common on welders) paintrobots typicaly have a different design for the hand to help with straight line movements also i have never seen a paintrobot without a protectiv cover over it, but thats mayby due to LVLP instead HVLP and the need for very strong ventelation with a worker in the same cell thats another point, here in germany if such a set up is checked you can close the factorie till its fixed you have a worker in the same cell as this non collaborative robot and workareas overlap without an obvious way to prevent the robot hitting the worker no hardstop for the arm in place and no light curtains for an approved software solution even the gantry style robots wouldnt be approved and i can tell you the gantry style might hurt, but the 6-axis arm would simply not care if it hits you
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Drunk
Steve, Serious question: I notice you do not delve into the ethical treatment of employees (ie: health care, work hours, PPE, living wages) when you do these factory tours, and I understand that it could add controversy to what I really consider the new How It's Made video series, which I enjoy. However, I do feel I'm not alone in wondering when/if you are ever going to address that 900lb gorilla? While it could look bad for some companies, and it could affect future sponsors, and therefore your revenue (and also the livelihood of your employees, I would feel a lot better buying a Lian Li case, if not only was the quality of a high standard, but also the people responsible for its construction were treated fairly during the process. If this has already been address in another video, please disregard. Either way, thanks for the new How It's Made.
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Steve, Serious question: I notice you do not delve into the ethical treatment of employees (ie: health care, work hours, PPE, living wages) when you do these factory tours, and I understand that it could add controversy to what I really consider the new How It's Made video series, which I enjoy. However, I do feel I'm not alone in wondering when/if you are ever going to address that 900lb gorilla? While it could look bad for some companies, and it could affect future sponsors, and therefore your revenue (and also the livelihood of your employees, I would feel a lot better buying a Lian Li case, if not only was the quality of a high standard, but also the people responsible for its construction were treated fairly during the process. If this has already been address in another video, please disregard. Either way, thanks for the new How It's Made.
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Shain
Question: What type of paint were they utilizing? Water based, or petroleum based like enamel, lacquer, urethane? In developed countries the push is for water based to reduce VOC's (volatile organic compounds. It is more than just changing the paint though as each paint technology requires a different drying technique. Water based for example needs lots of air flow to dry properly. Petroleum responds well to IR heat that penetrates the substrate and dries the coating from the bottom first.
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Question: What type of paint were they utilizing? Water based, or petroleum based like enamel, lacquer, urethane? In developed countries the push is for water based to reduce VOC's (volatile organic compounds. It is more than just changing the paint though as each paint technology requires a different drying technique. Water based for example needs lots of air flow to dry properly. Petroleum responds well to IR heat that penetrates the substrate and dries the coating from the bottom first.
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Guest
digital storm is absolute dog shit and test their systems for 30 minutes. used to work there not long ago. zero care given once the system is off their hands. employees are treated like slaves. little to no quality assurance. customers pay if something went wrong on digital storms part. racist team if you are not indian - you have no chance of climbing the false ladders they present you when hired.
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digital storm is absolute dog shit and test their systems for 30 minutes. used to work there not long ago. zero care given once the system is off their hands. employees are treated like slaves. little to no quality assurance. customers pay if something went wrong on digital storms part. racist team if you are not indian - you have no chance of climbing the false ladders they present you when hired.
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Jason
Back in the late 90s to early 2000s companies like Falcon Northwest and Voodoo (prior to the HP buyout) painted their cases with automotive paint used on high end to exotic cars and they did an amazing job with it. They also went as far as to fold the IDE cables in a way akin to origami. Such detail is lost on most of today's builds, even outside of the PC space.
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Back in the late 90s to early 2000s companies like Falcon Northwest and Voodoo (prior to the HP buyout) painted their cases with automotive paint used on high end to exotic cars and they did an amazing job with it. They also went as far as to fold the IDE cables in a way akin to origami. Such detail is lost on most of today's builds, even outside of the PC space.
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Eric
If it truly is a solvent-based paint like you mentioned, I'm surprised they can get away with not using a hazardous location robot. That particular robot is not certified for class 1 division 1 environments. Then again I'm sure they have different rules in different countries. But that would never pass muster in the US.
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If it truly is a solvent-based paint like you mentioned, I'm surprised they can get away with not using a hazardous location robot. That particular robot is not certified for class 1 division 1 environments. Then again I'm sure they have different rules in different countries. But that would never pass muster in the US.
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Brendon
Watching Factory Tours makes me wish I owned my own factory. It would be fun to just walk around and watch all the progress being made (or mistakes, and helping to solve them) and every step it takes to make the completed product. Specially if we did not make the same thing day after day.
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Watching Factory Tours makes me wish I owned my own factory. It would be fun to just walk around and watch all the progress being made (or mistakes, and helping to solve them) and every step it takes to make the completed product. Specially if we did not make the same thing day after day.
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Monkius
7: 38 - I thought that the East Indies had a lot of scooters; then I visited Taipei and was like holy shit. I have a photo of literally 50+ of them all taking off from a stoplight at once. I call them the scooter Mafia because there are mobs of them, lol. Taipei is awesome.
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7: 38 - I thought that the East Indies had a lot of scooters; then I visited Taipei and was like holy shit. I have a photo of literally 50+ of them all taking off from a stoplight at once. I call them the scooter Mafia because there are mobs of them, lol. Taipei is awesome.
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Edmund
Love these factory tours, they give great background to the products we buy. I'm repeatedly surprised at how much is done by hand and at the size of the factories involved - you envisage huge factory floors staffed only by robots, but this is almost a cottage industry.
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Love these factory tours, they give great background to the products we buy. I'm repeatedly surprised at how much is done by hand and at the size of the factories involved - you envisage huge factory floors staffed only by robots, but this is almost a cottage industry.
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