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the engineers who design these machines for weird random physical tasks in manufacturing are so cool. "hey we need a bottle stander upper machine, can you do it?" "sure thing, itll be a big wheel and we'll slap em. we'll just the slap the shit out of em"

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they are literally out here writing bozo sort in factories

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Best story I heard was at a general mills plant. They were having problems with some cereal boxes coming out empty, causing all sorts of supply chain issues. Consultants from Bain come in, quote $3.5M and it'll take six months to fix the hardware and software issues. Guy on the

Pardemines the Dyslexic

“Seems kind of dumb” “Well we could make one that doesn’t slap them but it will cost $300k more” “Slapper Sorter it is”

@Unleashthemind7

You may not like it but this is what peak engineering looks like

No sensor, no feedback required. Just a couple of spinning motorda and simple geometry. Pretty brilliant for what it needs to do.

Midwest State of Mind

I used to love that program that showed how things are made - there are so many bizarre machines that make things

@thiagovscoelho

“bottle stander upper machine” is a good name I wonder if they call it that

I love the replies that are all code monkeys who have never seen ACTUAL engineering before and are just completely flabbergasted.

Mid-life crisis Edgelord

We in the trade often refer to such machines as "black magic", only adding to the aura

Stupid McStupidson

@StpdMcStupidson

This happened because after weeks of a seemingly ordered design that didn't actually work, the engineer just said "fuck you, bottle" and slapped the shit out of it and it worked. The Fuck You Bottle Machine.

I want to know about the other ideas they didn’t get to production.

@gregorygmwhite

If brute force isn’t working, you’re not using enough of it

Oh man there’s a guy on here that does this and shares all his machines and it’s like “poop 7000 cones of ice cream all at the same time”-tron 3000. All amazing

My best friend in elementary school’s dad designed these things. They lived lower-middle class at the time (the ‘90s) when companies didn’t realize this knowledge was utterly essential. His family could barely afford a minivan in ‘95 yet the dad was a genius that made this stuff.

Gabriel Hornblower

@GabrielHornblow

The most impressive part is how the base is shaped so that the bottles get turned right side up.

remember: this job required a degree and a stellar LinkedIn

Robert Burleson - Mad Man

Trying to figure out how the flippy track skips the right-side-up ones.

Bruce F. Webster

I remain utterly fascinated and awed by this type of specialized engineering, and we generally have very little concept how pervasive it is and how critical it is for things we take for granted.

Yeah but it's my experience that those same engineers literally cannot operate a bay door or paper-cutter.

Stephanie A. Coronel, PhD

@steph_a_coronel

“we’ll just slap the shit out of em”, I’m dying here

small not gay adult

An engineer isn't done when he can't add anything else. He's done when he cant take anything else away.

could've been a humanoid robot sloooooooooooooowly putting the bottles into the channel one by one

Vibe engineering. Trying something, and iterating on it even when it probably even close to the best approach to start with

Vibratory sorters/feeders are also amazing. They just shake back and forth and their geometry lines up complex parts.

whats frustering (im biased im an ME) is that these engineers make peanuts in terms of $ compared to marketing majors whos job it is to optimize click through rates on advertisements and then engagement for social media when people say they want to try and bring manufacturing

They use the same machine in Chinese factories but they skip the wheel and just slap the workers directly who stand the bottles up by hand.

fundamentally about iterating toward what works. reality tends to be messier than initial conception.

@ScottMightKnow

There has got to be a better way of handling this. They're coming off a line in a uniform fashion, so you could possibly just move them on to a single-lane descending belt instead.

The SMB Manufacturing Guy

Slapped machine expert here. Yes that’s how it works, exactly how it works. We then do a bunch of busy work on top of this to make sure we are employed and look important

Justin Thelukai

@animated_memory

Seems like a really interesting job

Armatissimi e liberissimi

I think we've gotten a lot worse at coming up with this kind of solution.

Salacious B Crumb

This is actually a nice compact bottle unscrambler. The whiskers are smacking the loose bottles away so they don't get jammed in the turntable, and will fall into an empty slot.

@lookingat_email

The engineers always knew the bottles deserved it. Management just gave them their chance to dish it out.

I wish

would comment on how you come up with this type of stuff.

Coolest one I ever saw my brother in law designed, when someone tampered with a Tylenol capsule in the earlyn80’s, Tylenol needed a way to seal the capsule, my brother in laws company made industrial microwaves, he designed a machine you could dump thousands of capsules in and

I BS'd my way into a job designing agricultural processing equipment and it was literally just having fun making Rube-Goldberg devices. I didn't get rich doing it but I did pretty well. At first it was just 2d cad but by the time I moved on I had a pen of half a dozen solid works

they’re true engineers

Cecilia Glennon

@CeciliaGlennon

Bottle unscrambler. I know it well.

Woodworking For Ross Ulbricht

@ZimmerHandcraft

I especially like how it corrects bottles that go in the side gear teeth upside down

The real engineering is on the stander upper railway there. The slapper was a patch

It probably saves 1 cent over the course of a year compared to the alternative, less dumb looking design.

Patrick Metzdorf

"looks good... wait a minute... hey guys, u thinking what I'm thinking?" "will they pay us for this?" "No, of course they will. I meant: ...just how fast you think can we make this thing before the bottles start flying? ...we call it super-spin and charge double!"

Captain Ⓐncapistan

I love capitalism

Wissam El Kadamani

@WissamKadamani

You're saying I'm cool?

Never done something this out-of-the-box but some cool shit nonetheless

I used to work for a consultancy that designed things like that. One of them was putting those balloons onto endotracheal tubes

@joshuasforrest

Great machine 10/10

even crazier that the ones upside down are turned over as well peak.

Steven Joseph | Composer & Sound Designer

That's probably exactly how that conversation went.

Whoever designed this and made it works should get a Nobel award

@productpilotbb

The pure genius of "slap the shit out of them" engineering! It's like controlled chaos meets physics. Fun fact: Some bottling plants use these "aggressive persuasion" machines because they're actually MORE reliable than sensor-based systems - fewer parts to break, no calibration

Wind would have been better than slapped

@Jonatha51268156

I love shit like this seems better than the vibratory feeders that use a bunch of compressed air to blow off the incorrectly oriented stuff.

Dani Ihza Farrosi

“So how many bottle will it produce?” “Between 15 to 60 per minutes, depend on the cosmos”

There’s big money in the people who make the machines for the factories - all mass production machines -it’s very common to hear that there is only one type of a certain machine in the entire world

"youtubers HATE this channel"

".... and we'll call it...'get in place, bitch' machine. Because it's funny"

The machine I ran did not have a slapper, it just reamed an asshole into the bottom and shot juice everywhere.

Reminds me of our education system.

how does one even model this kind of system

looks like complete chaos

Slap um is universal

leopastel.eth ꓽꓽ)

this is wild, the fact it flips them upright if they’re upside down

Russel Alexander

It’s not dumb if it works

CauseForConcern

Ol’ Slappy

cosmicmiskatonic

@cosmicmiskaton7

That machine is having the most fun ever

slap AND SOMETIMES flip

@RealJoeGaydosh

What necromancy is this?

They need to talk to

. They have it figured out

Introduce energy and make it so the least energy state is the correct orientation you need.

Patrick J. Murtaugh

Sounds like a page taken from the Jerky Boys playbook... Yeah, rap it with a rachet, you laugh Paulie but it works.

The main reason glass bottling was grandfathered

@Jordan361017590

Um... Is that bottle slapper part for sale to the public? Asking for a friend...

Chad the Barbarian

the microplastics