3 Weeks In, Gauntlet III Initial Thoughts

[Prince Art]

700/hr (or reasonably close!) going around twice is impressive!

[Doug S]

We probably used it on the first day 

36 pcs with white print on black.... yeah I will revolve that all day vs making 2 screens

Agreed, we try to stick to a policy of 50 or fewer gets revolver. 

[T Shirt Farmer]

700/hr (or reasonably close!) going around twice is impressive!

that is 1400 cycles per hour... can you unload and load at that speed

[Mr Tees!!]

1300+700÷2= 1000hr avg index speed.

Shirts only coming off half of the time=500hr.

[GraphicDisorder]

1300+700÷2= 1000hr avg index speed.

Shirts only coming off half of the time=500hr.

Which is faster than many shops run in 1 revolution

[Nation03]

1300+700÷2= 1000hr avg index speed.

Shirts only coming off half of the time=500hr.

Which is faster than many shops run in 1 revolution

Truth. I'll be happy if we can do 300/hr consistently once we're up and running.

[T Shirt Farmer]

I used the Revolver Mode for the 1st time today...it was nice!  I'm so used to turning heads on and off while I'm trying to operate all the other things on the press and some 7-8 color jobs can be very tough to do while keeping the auto spinning at a decent rate.  Now I just programmed the heads and revolutions and it just did what I told it to do, even allowing me to run the press super fast on one revolution and the unload revolution it slows itself down to whatever speed I can unload and load.  It's a feature that I'll try not to use very often, but I am really impressed with the feature and it's not all that slow either, I was spinning it at around 700/hr.

Alan,

where you producing 700 or 350 units an hour on the revolver mode?

[ffokazak]

Yeah our CHIIID does not account for the revolver mode, in its Per/hr calculations .

Much to the dismay of my press operator hahah

[alan802]

I don't think we hit 700, but we were certainly way faster than 350, so probably closer to 600.  On the revolution I wasn't loading/unloading it was spinning as fast as it could go, zero dwell and 1.5 second flash.  The revolution where we unloaded/loaded I had a guy unloading for the majority of the run and the press was indexing at roughly 13-14 pieces per minute but where I was the only one at the press it was only indexing at 500'ish/hr.  All these numbers are just estimates as I wasn't trying to be scientific about it and the post was made without thinking people would be trying to figure out the exact production speed.  I can certainly go through figuring it all out the next time we run revolver if the gallery is THAT interested.  I guess I can also go back and study the cameras and count how many we ran, that just takes a lot of time.

If I'm trying to compare it to how fast we ran with the RPM, which was on average probably 400 pieces per hour with revolving I feel very confident that we can blow that number away on the Gauntlet.  I love being able to just run and not worry about turning dwell times up and down based on which revolution you're on, it does all that for you.