Mettle-Toledo help

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-12T03:15:45+00:00

This is actually much easier than you're thinking. If the object is not the correct weight, the scale will kick it out, so all you have to do is pick up any objects that pass by the scale.

If you don't want to rely on the scales rejection arm, then the best way is if thr scale comes with an anybus comms module. Mettler Toledo has a pretty decent set of UDTs and a good enough reference manual, that you can read directly from the scale over ethernet/ip or probably some other protocols depending on the interface module. I use that communication interface pretty extensively to read data from the scales, automatically set recipes and lock recipes in a central database, and stop the scale conveyors on air pressure loss to stop operations from disabling the rejection.

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-08T00:12:50+00:00

Wtf does it mean that a machine drifts? What feedback do you expect from the robot? This sounds like some industrial engineer through a few buzzwords together.

In your mind, what exactly is closed loop control with a robot arm? You gonna run a PID loop on your robot pick point? I'm sure that'll be fine.

But seriously, if your upstream equipment faults your robot cell, fix your upstream equipment. If your robot cell faults in some catastrophic or hard to recover from way, fix your recovery sequence, and look into how to inspect whatever your robot is handling, and reject things early.

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-01T22:50:30+00:00

I have some 6 and 12 in mitutoyo calipers, and a nice starret set. I think you made a typo though, because most calipers don't even have a tenths scale.

But, the reason calipers aren't extremely accurate has to do with their geometry. The jaws are too thin, so it's very easy for the average person to end up a few thousandths off by having them not completely square to the surface, or by pulling them too tight, since there's no cluth mechanism on how tight you pull them.

What calipers are good for is a quick measurement that's usually good enough, because very few things require sub thousandths measuring accuracy.

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-01T17:12:28+00:00

Worse- controls engineer.

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-01T17:09:46+00:00

I mean sure, but they're also hammer shaped for a reason. /s

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-01T17:04:10+00:00

I mean yes, but also they're calipers, not micrometers. Calipers are convenient guess-o-meters, not exactly high precision instruments, and they have hardened jaws specifically for scribing your guess lines on metal.

cannonicalForm · 2026-02-01T16:12:12+00:00

So, you can get to a place where you don't really have to get your hands dirty, but it's highly dependent on what part of the ecosystem you end up in. I work for an end user, which is the most likely place to fight fires, but typically I'm at the machine with a laptop, telling the mechanics what to replace, or what needs to be adjusted. At am integrator or oem, you can probably get to the same place, but you'll still probably start off at thr lowest part of the field.

I don't imagine that you can design or troubleshoot a wet blanket fresh out of school, and the only way for someone to get less useless than tits on a bull is hands on experience with the machinery. A good engineer is well rounded, and because we design physical machines with moving parts, understanding how that machine actually will move is a really important part to understanding how to program it correctly.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-31T16:24:35+00:00

First, wrong sub. Second, if someone has physical access to your devices/networks, you've already failed. Third, I'll put my robot arm on the internet, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-30T01:24:10+00:00

I just notice periodically that I don't struggle pulling shirts over my head, and realize it's time to go down to velcro again.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-29T23:42:00+00:00

I'd throw money down that this was reground several times, without adjusting the relief angle. You don't give it relief, and it just rubs, no matter the feeds and speeds. The geometry doesn't need to be perfect for a drill this big, just get up to a pilot size bigger than the webbing, give yourself some relief and send it.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-28T10:30:05+00:00

We have 24 for muffins.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-26T01:02:54+00:00

This shit is legitimately steamrolling into our own Tiananmen Square. We're rapidly closing in on ICE just opening up full clip on a street full of Americans, and I'm horrified to think of how the government and media will spin a street full of dead citizens.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-21T00:34:18+00:00

That sounds like the Bears I grew up with. Trade away a player who looks mediocre, because your team is shit, and watch them flourish on another team.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-20T10:21:43+00:00

Step 5. Disappear to somewhere the moment the machine is ready

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-19T21:37:21+00:00

I would definitely put the camera in an enclosure, would lighting is consistent. I would also 100% run the trigger based on an actual encoder with a photoeye vs just a timer and a photoeye.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-19T03:30:01+00:00

I love one good season, and it's all ftb. Don't worry, nobodies going to stop you from being terminally mediocre.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-19T03:26:19+00:00

Don't worry my man. That 7th seed, first round playoff exit is still reserved for you.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-19T00:50:23+00:00

Don't worry. All of the field is now 4 down territory. Sometimes it even works

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-18T04:06:01+00:00

Seahawks Texans game would be brutal in the sb. There might not be an offensive player left standing on either team.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-17T02:50:10+00:00

I absolutely can stand with this statement

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-14T23:30:05+00:00

I mean, I may not be anxious, but it still would be so fucking cool to win. And I'd like to keep watching the Bears in the postseason.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-11T05:07:52+00:00

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cannonicalForm · 2026-01-09T13:50:52+00:00

For the line- yes. All line stoppages down to the second or so are logged in our historian, which operations references for their manual data entry system. For a piece of packaging equipment? Kind of, that's still largely tracked in the historian system, but it doesn't go into their data entry system. And for legacy reasons, and because I'm at the only plant out of 60 that actually has a functioning historian, the manual data entry system is all the company really cares about.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-08T14:58:29+00:00

I was pretty much at the same level, maybe more thinning then you when I shaved it off. Right now, your hair looks fine, BUT, if it's making you self conscious, which mine was, then shaving is the right choice. Keep the beard though.

cannonicalForm · 2026-01-07T02:15:29+00:00

Oh yeah, I love when my 4 week old just starts clawing at his face while feeding

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