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Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:44:32 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Brian Lanning writes:
> When the bricks are first made, they're dropped into large buckets. Then a
> miracle occurs. Then pieces are very acuratly sorted into polybags. How are
> the bricks sorted? It would almost have to be automated.
More accurately, several 'small' miracles...
Moulding machines drop pieces into storage containers. When the time comes to
use a piece in a polybag, the storage container is dumped into a 'feeder'
machine on a packing line. On to step 2:
Packing lines are set up, with several machines each feeding one piece (1 to
several pieces, but all the same shape & color) to small bins. Each bin is
weighed before and after each piece is added, if the weight is off by too much
the bin is kicked to the 'reject' pile. Once all the programmed pieces have
been added to the bin and the final weight confirmed, the pieces get dumped
and sealed in polybags. The polybags are dumped into storage cases, in
preparation for step 3:
To pack sets, the boxes are formed and the ends are hot-glued together. The
boxes pass by several people, each person puts something in the box. Perhaps
the instructions, perhaps a polybag or two, perhaps a few loose pieces.
Finally, boxes are weighed (again!), sealed up, and put into cases.
Having seen this process in person, I can say it probably wouldn't work for
any sort of bulk ordering. The packing lines are only set up to handle about
20 different pieces at a time. And, each step has to be programmed into the
computers for a specific number of each piece, so the weights can be measured
at each step. So to pack a bulk order, the packing line would have to be
reprogrammed.
It's a lovely thought, though!
JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) IMHO, a bulk order should be exactly that -- a _bulk_ order. So someone would go around the warehouse with a cart and a set of scales, and dump 1000 +- 10 bricks into the order crate directly from the storage crate. I think adding the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| When the bricks are first made, they're dropped into large buckets. Then a miracle occurs. Then pieces are very acuratly sorted into polybags. How are the bricks sorted? It would almost have to be automated. If that's the case, could that process be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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