Decent video on "kitting" from Make today.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Thought this might be of interest to our more business minded engineers on the forums.

Video on Kit Making:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oflgzorurB8&feature=player_embedded

OBC

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Thanks, OBC. That's a good video. They left out a step, though: check-weighing all the bags with a sensitive scale when they're finished.

I use a similar system, except that I built a rack that can hold the bags open:



Each bag in each column of ten is numbered. This turned out to be very important, because it allows me to keep track of which bag is next as I count to myself from 1 to 10. But, even then, it's possible to make a mistake. That's why the final check-weighing is so important.

-Phil

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Nice setup!

Question: How do you know which part is missing (or too many) when a bag doesn't pass weight?
(dump it out and recheck the entire bag?)

I was hoping some others would jump in on this thread.. I suspect there are some interesting methods in use.
Having seen Parallax's system I know there is more than one right way to skin this cat. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Oldbitcollector said...
Question: How do you know which part is missing (or too many) when a bag doesn't pass weight?
(dump it out and recheck the entire bag?)

Yup. I have one of those pill counter trays that pharmacists use. I dump the contents on that and count the parts into the dispensing tube.

For the BOE Bot encoders, I've gotten a bit lazy of late. Since there are so few parts, and since the digital scale takes an hour or more to stabilize, I just hold each bag up to visually inspect the contents and make sure there's two of each of the six components. It turns out that this works for locating shortages, but not for detecting overages. (Someone, at some point, got an extra reflective sensor, and it's thrown my inventory off.)

BTW, another indispensible tool for kitting is a bag sealer, like the one in the background of the photo. Even though the static bags are ziplocked, it's important to seal them afterwards as extra insurance that parts don't escape.

-Phil

davejames

OBC - thanks for the info; will be used when I come to that stage.

DJ

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