Proud dad moment!

[YoDoug]

My 23 yo daughter is currently working on a BS in mech from Mankato State in MN. She is interning this summer at my work. She and another intern are building a robot cell with a UR robot to load pulleys into a press to get bearings pressed in automatically. Right now they are all done manually, about 25,000 a year. It's cool to be able help her with programming questions and see the figurative wheels turning in her head and then see her light up when she comes up with a code solution for the robot. She would hate that I shared this pic, but I'm going to anyways.

[CADCAM396]

you have the right to be proud. world needs so much more of this.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

This is the good stuff. Mech students with actual experience doing something hands-on? Your kid will go far, must be pretty cool to have fostered that into existence! You have every right to be a proud dad

My boy is 4, and I can't wait to share my passion for making parts with him even more. He constantly wants to visit the workshop to see 'the boys' already, so we're on track.

[Newbeeee™]

My 10bucks says, behind your back, she says to her Mom and friends "my Dad's everso clever"....

[Flycut]

That's awesome.
My kids have gotten as far away from manufacturing as possible.

[YoDoug]

My 10bucks says, behind your back, she says to her Mom and friends "my Dad's everso clever"....

Oh there have been times she has come to me with Calc II or diff calc questions and when we started discussing I quickly realized she is smarter than me. 

[riverhunter]

That's Awesome.  When i owned my shop i would have my son and daughter there often ( they were like 3 and 5 at the time )  one day i my daughter was watching me load a mill and grabbed my hand and pulled me to the side of the machine and pointed at the chip barrel and said "Poop"  took me to second to understand and then i laughed out load as she called the machines monsters and they ate what i put into them and pooped it out.

[Incogneeto]

Wow Doug!! most impressive.
She has a great head start. And Role model.

No doubt the company is blessed and will reward her for the hard work.

Tell her the OG (old guys) are cheering for her.    

The next Gen looks great.    

[mkd]

I bet she converts to Fanuc controls  

[CNCAppsJames]

I bet she converts to Fanuc controls  

If she's as smart as she appears, she will. 

 

[YoDoug]

She is doing final testing and debugging today. A human can do a full tray in about and hour and a half. The robot takes about three hours, but only takes about five minutes of human time to load for a full run. Here is a quick video of the final project. I sped it up 2x for quicker viewing.

[Newbeeee™]

A human can do a full tray in about and hour and a half. The robot takes about three hours

Tim the Toolman Taylor would be re-wiring that sucker into the 415volts....

[Kyle F]

That's bad ass, congrats!!