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perchie.girl :
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Good Point.
I wanna hear a story! I'm actually quite bored at the moment and have nothing else to do..
LOL.... the short version is I used to work in the telecommunication industry designing equipment for infrastructure.... The equipment that goes into the cell phone towers to name one. My end was strictly mechanical. Aluminum boxes and steel racks to contain electromagnetic generating devices. Lots of circuit boards. Many very sensitive to impact. At one point I had to design the actual shipping boxes that the components were packaged in. With the help of a Cardboard box manufacturer we made test boxes packed them a certain way and put impact sensors on them to test how well they did their job when dropped ten feet off a ladder. We even had one rack arrive off the truck in Washington state that had a bullet hole in it. So did the truck.... LOL. Only one component had been damaged. Luck of the draw.
And My dad automated the Post Office here in San Diego on its first go round with automatic sorting equipment. He was very gifted with high speed manufacturing equipment. Either tweaking it to make it better or designing it from scratch. That was back in the seventies....
Packing for shipping seems simple but sometimes its not. Youd think that packing somehting completely rigid so that it cannot move is the best thing.... Not really. but you have to figure in how much give the actual box needs to have to survive the trip and absorb the necessary impact to protect the contents. At one point I even considered becoming a packaging engineer. I have held several engineering hats over the years.... but I only had a highschool diploma... Thank goodness the Peter Principle caught up with me about the time I was ready to retire.
Now I am just looking for some simple drafting work here in San Diego.
Quote:
Good Point.
I wanna hear a story! I'm actually quite bored at the moment and have nothing else to do..
LOL.... the short version is I used to work in the telecommunication industry designing equipment for infrastructure.... The equipment that goes into the cell phone towers to name one. My end was strictly mechanical. Aluminum boxes and steel racks to contain electromagnetic generating devices. Lots of circuit boards. Many very sensitive to impact. At one point I had to design the actual shipping boxes that the components were packaged in. With the help of a Cardboard box manufacturer we made test boxes packed them a certain way and put impact sensors on them to test how well they did their job when dropped ten feet off a ladder. We even had one rack arrive off the truck in Washington state that had a bullet hole in it. So did the truck.... LOL. Only one component had been damaged. Luck of the draw.
And My dad automated the Post Office here in San Diego on its first go round with automatic sorting equipment. He was very gifted with high speed manufacturing equipment. Either tweaking it to make it better or designing it from scratch. That was back in the seventies....
Packing for shipping seems simple but sometimes its not. Youd think that packing somehting completely rigid so that it cannot move is the best thing.... Not really. but you have to figure in how much give the actual box needs to have to survive the trip and absorb the necessary impact to protect the contents. At one point I even considered becoming a packaging engineer. I have held several engineering hats over the years.... but I only had a highschool diploma... Thank goodness the Peter Principle caught up with me about the time I was ready to retire.
Now I am just looking for some simple drafting work here in San Diego.
Interesting...
