One of the challenges with work, as opposed to University type work, is that you often have to wait a long time to see your results. About a year ago, I was responsible for specifying and buying a palletiser as part of the £40 million investment in the Bournville factory. Today, for the first time, I saw that palletiser stacking pallets in situ.
I spent many hours in meetings discussing conveyor routings, box speeds, access points, fire doors and the like and now to walk into that room and see the conveyors where they were drawn and to see it all working is fantastic. I'm pleased that it looks just as I thought it would (that means I can read engineering drawings) and pleased that it works! I was always slightly worried that there might be some problem I hadn't foreseen and it would always be known as 'Rachel's palletiser' for the wrong reasons. Now that I've seen it stack a perfectly square pallet, I'm happy to be associated with it and see the physical manifestation of many weeks work.
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