Hey All,
WE’RE FINALLY SHIPPING!!!
Meeting Line Trials and Tribulations
We’ve been centered on assembling the primary 9 models and issues haven’t gone as easily as deliberate.
After wrapping up meeting on these models we began the ultimate High quality Management inspection final week. The QC inspection contains pulling photographs with the Scace 2 puck simulator and thermometer to confirm brew temps and it was throughout this section of testing we realized 5 of the 9 models have been leaking from numerous fittings.
We realized that the hydrostatic testing accomplished on the boilers in section 1 was not accomplished because it ought to have been. One other testing equipment was made to make sure we may pressurize the boiler sub meeting with water and have been in a position to reproduce the leaks.
There have been some boiler sub assemblies that didn’t leak in keeping with this new check. Some leaks have been quite simple fixes and resulted from a scarcity of formal meeting procedures. We’ve provide you with new procedures to check all the pre-assembled models and use solely the totally sealed machines earlier than persevering with to the ultimate phases of meeting.
The unhealthy information is that we’ve to rebuild these leaking boiler sub assemblies.
Shifting ahead we’ll be making adjustments to our meeting course of to keep away from this rework.
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As a substitute of constructing models in batched phases, we’re going to concentrate on constructing every Argos utterly from begin to end together with QC and transport. That is to keep away from us discovering points which are affecting a number of models from a batch as a result of meeting course of.
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We’re going to conduct a number of leak checks all through the meeting of every unit to catch any potential points as early as attainable.
Each of those adjustments will imply much less rework throughout meeting. As we proceed assembling and testing models we’ll proceed to study what checks and course of adjustments we have to make to make sure models are functioning correctly.
Delivery Updates
We’ve completed meeting on 5 models and have shipped them out! When accepting and signing on your package deal, if there are any indicators of serious harm please inform the supply particular person to notice that your package deal was broken upon receiving. You should still settle for the package deal and get in touch with us however the receiver should explicitly inform the driving force to listing the harm when signing on your machine to ensure that us to file a declare with the transport firm.
When you obtain your Argos please check out the consumer handbook positioned on our web site: USER MANUAL We are going to proceed including to the handbook over the following week to cowl pulling photographs in each configurations in addition to different basic security and ideas.
For a video on unboxing, organising, and utilizing your Argos with ideas and methods to get probably the most out of your machine, watch right here: Odyssey Argos Unboxing and Set Up
I’ll proceed to add movies of swapping from Spring to Direct and vice versa, direct pull use, utilizing the Odyssey Espresso App, cleansing and upkeep, and extra.
Hiring
We’ve employed 2 new meeting techs over the previous few weeks and so they’re each superior! It’s going to take time to construct these machines with the standard that we anticipate earlier than our technicians change into comfy with the method, so anticipate shipments to start out off gradual and construct up over the following few weeks. We are going to possible carry one one or two extra individuals over the following month.
CE Certification Updates
The lab conducting our security check required for CE certification has made lots of progress. We simply handed our ultimate security check for glow wire flammability which ensures {that a} free wire won’t ignite the picket aspect panels. One of many ultimate steps was reaching out to our numerous suppliers to offer the lab with the mandatory paperwork exhibiting materials compliance. The lab is now drafting up the mandatory documentation for a CE certification in addition to conformance reviews for the opposite nations that we ship to.
Subsequent Batch Pre-Orders
Many individuals have been asking about once we will open pre-orders again up. We closed them off final fall to permit us to lock in numbers and actually concentrate on procurement and manufacturing of our first batch of machines. Whereas we’re continuously studying about how we will enhance our processes and change into extra environment friendly at meeting with out compromising high quality, we needed to attend till we began transport and have been in a cushty stream of meeting earlier than opening orders again up.
I anticipate to open pre-orders again up across the finish of subsequent week. With the present purpose of getting all of our first batch shipped out in 3 to 4 months, opening orders now will permit us to start out the following cycle of procurement which might take as much as 2 months of producing time and over 1 month of transport earlier than it leads to our arms. The purpose is to line this up in order that as we end transport the ultimate models from batch one, our technicians can transition proper into prepping and beginning to construct batch 2.
Whereas there isn’t a plan to shut off orders for batch 2 we may have to take action if the variety of orders exceeds {our capability}. Sadly the value of the Argos shall be elevated shifting ahead. We are going to all the time maintain this machine underneath $1000 USD however we should sustain with the rise in costs together with materials price that has occurred over the previous few years.
Thanks all for the continued persistence and assist as we carry these superior machines to market!
