M4E 2023 Quiz
Manufacturing 4 Everyone or M4E started a year ago as a way to transfer knowledge to my coworkers. It has been specially planned for those less erudite in manufacturing, to learn about these topics (but it doesn’t hurt to refresh some concepts!). Gradiant is an ICT R&D centre with some projects in the manufacturing and Industry 4.0 world. Hence the need to create a way for my colleagues to foster creativity, learning the language of manufacturing and many of the classical basic concepts of this world, but also of future manufacturing.
As a way to promote reading this newsletter on fridays, once in the year I organize a contest with 5 questions and 5 prizes, giving them to the coworker that provided the most valid answer to each question. Next you can find the questions from this year edition, that took place yesterday. Hope you can answer them! All can be answered by reviewing past M4E posts. Feel free to leave your answers in the comments or in the chat and discuss! I’ll provide the answers in next friday issue.
What is a poka yoke? Give an example found in Gradiant.
In our production plant, we have the following assembly solutions. List all the layers of the automation pyramid and indicate in which layer each of the elements is located.:
A Distributed Control System (DCS)
A Raspberry Pi with OpenSCADA
Several PLCs
A 4-20mA sensor
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
In one of the posts on M4E, we discussed PGCs, with one of the most relevant ones in the current industry being silica dust. What is the estimated number of people affected by this condition in Europe, and what are the allowed limit values according to the European directive and in Spain?
What was the root cause of the deterioration of the Jefferson Memorial? What methodology and steps can we follow to determine it?
A paper airplane undergoes ten operations, with the first four operations carried out at station A and the remaining six at station B (the two stations are in sequence A->B). Each station can work on only one airplane at a time (although it can have a storage area for semi-finished or finished planes). Considering that station A takes 1.5 seconds for each operation and station B takes 2 seconds, and that we want to manufacture a total of 10 airplanes, how long would it take for the first manufactured airplane to be completed if we manufacture in batches of 5 airplanes? And if we do the same in a one-piece flow?