CarbideBob
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2007
- Location
- Flushing/Flint, Michigan
Negatives? Bad experience?
I does not fit in some places and can be an increased cost and pain to the checkbook.
If you can not cycle what is in that vend machine in two, three months or less its a bad way to go.
Some parts do not fit, some packaging does not vend well so repack needed.
"Borrowing" the vend ID or card and stocking your tool box for the year.
Drawer systems and you have to trust people to take only what they asked for which blows the whole automatic counting and automatic reorder cost and time saving thing out the window.
Initial setup is costly in time and information input. This can easily equal the price of the machine but any tool control system has this.
It is a change to how things are done and getting all sides to sign on on the same day can be a challenge.
Our coil machines came from Automatic Products which I bow to their help and Mars who made the control boards and changed it so we could vend from PC commands.
The carousel 'sandwich type" from Crane who gave us the source code to modify and make it work.
The whole thing to me started as a locking drawer Lista cabinet pc controlled idea from a great engineering manger at Buick.
Certainly there must be real world fails to offset all the this is good stuff talk.
Bob
I does not fit in some places and can be an increased cost and pain to the checkbook.
If you can not cycle what is in that vend machine in two, three months or less its a bad way to go.
Some parts do not fit, some packaging does not vend well so repack needed.
"Borrowing" the vend ID or card and stocking your tool box for the year.
Drawer systems and you have to trust people to take only what they asked for which blows the whole automatic counting and automatic reorder cost and time saving thing out the window.
Initial setup is costly in time and information input. This can easily equal the price of the machine but any tool control system has this.
It is a change to how things are done and getting all sides to sign on on the same day can be a challenge.
Our coil machines came from Automatic Products which I bow to their help and Mars who made the control boards and changed it so we could vend from PC commands.
The carousel 'sandwich type" from Crane who gave us the source code to modify and make it work.
The whole thing to me started as a locking drawer Lista cabinet pc controlled idea from a great engineering manger at Buick.
Certainly there must be real world fails to offset all the this is good stuff talk.
Bob
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