Hey All,
We’re presently as much as Order 1091 which is round 535 machines shipped! That now places us at 93% full for batch 1. In fact, nothing is straightforward. We’ve run into some delays with switching to the Pressensor stress transducer. This modification was talked about within the final electronic mail replace and requires a little bit of guide machining work on our finish to get the combination that we desire with a direct thread into the Grouphead. We have been initially anticipating to obtain components custom-made for the Argos, however sadly that didn’t work out so we needed to modify the primary 30 items by hand. On prime of this, we’ve been ready on the brand new thread adapters to make use of the Pressensor with our present “T” becoming for those who need to run it with an analog gauge. We’ve been making these in home as properly however the first batch of fittings have simply arrived which can make transport these out barely less complicated.
Hiring
This previous month we’ve employed 2 new individuals! One is a component time developer with Argos expertise who will focus particularly on the app facet of issues. We’ve obtained a big listing of our personal options that we want to supply within the app to proceed bettering consumer expertise however we additionally want somebody devoted to maintaining with numerous scale pairing updates and telephone compatibility points.
The second rent is a full time meeting technician. We interviewed a number of wonderful candidates and located one which has a mix of espresso expertise and excessive consideration to element which is essential for constructing these machines.
Whereas it should take time for each new hires to get fully spooled up, we’re excited to have the ability to proceed slowly ramping up our manufacturing as orders steadily enhance.
We’ll seemingly rent one other store workers in a couple of months to proceed growing output with out compromising high quality.
Manufacturing
We anticipate to finish batch 1 meeting inside the subsequent 2 weeks. We’ll nonetheless have sufficient components for round 50 items that we’ll use to begin achievement of batch 2. The remaining Batch 2 components shall be arriving on the finish of September and embody some design adjustments geared in direction of simplifying meeting and lowering half price. With these adjustments in thoughts meeting and achievement fee ought to enhance as soon as we obtain the ultimate cargo of those new components.
Our objective is to finish batch 2 meeting by the tip of January if we hit a gentle 25 machines per week. Greatest case state of affairs, we are going to ship extra per week with our elevated workers however our present fee must be an inexpensive estimate with a full inventory of recent stock.
Upkeep
I’ve lastly filmed and uploaded an Argos cleansing and routine upkeep protocol. We’ll work on transcribing this right into a simplified written listing for future reference. Apologies for the poor audio!
Video: Odyssey Argos Routine Upkeep
Store Updates
Carousel: We’ve been slowly engaged on constructing a carousel system for our High quality Management rack. Machines all undergo 2 rounds of testing earlier than they’re boxed up. With restricted shelf house, it may be a ache to retailer machines 2 deep on a rack and have to shuffle them round all through this course of. A easy carousel rack will enable us to stop unintentional injury from shuffling machines by hand and make it a lot simpler to spin machines round for entry, particularly whereas we bond on serial plaques.
Hydrostatic Take a look at Rig: Our present hydrostatic check get up till now has labored nice however is slightly…janky. Primary wooden body bolted to an outdated crate with fast clamps and a rubber plug to seal. One in every of our techs, Anthony, has finished a implausible job redesigning the stand. We’ll now have it mounted to a cellular cart with its personal faucet, drain, and pump to have the ability to recycle our testing water and forestall pointless strolling throughout the store!
