week 6 blog 3

So Wednesday through Thursday, today I worked on small metal and plastic pieces as usual, And even though this was my week of score I didn't get a break from working on small parts, which I was hoping for a chance to work on bigger parts so then I don't cramp up and hurt my fingers, which that obviously didn't happen, I had these tiny black plastic parts that you couldn't even hold because they were so small, I had to use tweezers to make sure the burrs come off of them, even though I only had to use scotch bright paper, I still couldn't hold them with my hands to feel them to make sure there isn't any burrs left on the pieces. I ended up finishing them with in 3 hours of my time there at the factory. But I didn't finish them on time before having to shipped off to the company that needed them. Then I moved on to the small metal parts and had to use the red-wheel again, then today on Thursday I had to finish another 3 bags of the 5 bags that were left on the pile of the de-burred pieces. After I finished half of them or the 3 bags of them completely I got to walk around the factory and take Photos of the CNC machines inside and out of them. Then took some more pictures of the different drill bits that are used to create certain pieces in the CNC machines, and got to take a few more pictures of the certain pieces of prototypes that Atlantic Industrial Models has created with in the years of being there. Examples are, the deli markets ticket holders at Stop and Shop or Market basket, the plastic doors that are used on those kid grocery carts cars, the medical field and military goggles that transmit laser beams to launch missiles at there targets or to transmit certain chemicals of air, O2, CO2, etc. IV liquid mixers to heat up the liquid.  

week 6 blog 1 and 2

So Monday was the last Monday of SCORE, I didn't do much other than de-burr little metal and plastic parts then wash them in chemicals. So basically I finished those parts then got to work on a new machine to me at least to use, the Red Wheel which is a machine that has Scotch Bright paper on the end that spins at about 3,600RPMs a min, which isn't fast at all compared to other machines that I've used. So I had to use these little metal parts that almost look like a face on both sides, they are used for vibrators for either game system controller's or special machines for the medical fields. So I started on those, and again they are very small pieces of metal worth at least $40 a piece if you lose them then the company loses money. I nearly burned myself multiple times with the Scotch bright paper because if you leave you hand and fingers on it for a certain amount of time it started to feel like you burning yourself with boiling water. So I basically de-burred 6-7 bags of the pieces up to 40-70 pieces in each bag on Monday. I ended up have burned fingers including my thumb that was burned the most while holding the pieces. I finished most of the bags Monday which is a good thing but there was just so much more of those little metal pieces to be finished in the long run. I ended up taking a break from the small metal parts and went to these new metal parts that looked like a double sided L but thicker that usual, these parts were much easier to finish because there was only at about 50 pieces total to finish and they were big enough to then my fingers and hands wouldn't be burned all that much from just de-burring the pieces. After I finished those pieces I moved on to wash them in the Sterilizer that shakes the chemicals to wash off any extra metal shavings that I've missed from the Red-Wheel. Then I air-dried the pieces and got to send them to my supervisor to inspect them which was much easier than getting the plastic pieces inspected.

Week 5 blog 2 and 3

So Tuesday I walked into the factory to get working on the next project that I had to finish before Friday was coming up for the pieces, the pieces were small clear parts that were used for the company Continuum, I have no idea why they needed those pieces for their company, but I guess they were important. I get my tools ready which were, X-ACTO knife, and some Goo-Gone stuff that takes off the stickers that were left on the pieces when the company ordered them. I didn't exactly finish all the pieces, because I was moved of to a new project to wash these small pieces that just came out of the CNC or Computer Numerical Control machine and that were all ready de-burred before I washed them. Then from Wednesday and Thursday, I was still working on the small clear pieces that needed to be shipped out today, Friday, I finished the pieces Thursday, then had to work on these medium sized pieces that were used for holding sliding automatic sensor doors open for emergencies. I ended up finishing those pieces also on Thursday when they are due on next Wednesday, but it felt good this week to finish a lot more projects than I usually have to finish and work on entirely for the whole week. After I finished those pieces a sanitizer guy came in to look at everyone's area to make sure that its clean and safe. So Thursday after I finished my projects I got started on cleaning up my work area to get a good report on my record at the factory.

week 5 blog 1

So Monday I did the exact same stuff I do every week to start off my day, which is de-burring little tiny pieces of plastic or metal and then washing the pieces afterward. So today I walked in to the factory and begin to finish the rest of the left over pieces of plastic pieces to finish and wash. Theses parts are very small to hold, I get my tools ready and start working on the pieces. The tools are sand paper, X-ACTO knife that's about it. So I finished the pieces, and got started on the pieces. I finished the pieces and went to work on the washing process, that took a really long time to finish them, the pieces were small but I mostly had to use the sand paper on the pieces to finish them completely cause the X-ACTO knife doesn't always do the trick. So I got the pieces into the sterilizer and use the sound waves to shake the remaining pieces of metal burrs off. I got those ready and then moved on to the air hose to dry the pieces off completely. After the pieces were finished I boxed them and gave them to my supervisor to sign them off and get them ready to be shipped off. The next piece of working that I had to start were small plastic pieces that looked like Hersey bars I used the X-ACTO knife, scotch paper, and a air hose. I started to de-burr those parts and washed them quickly to get moving on another project to finish before the time-line of production and shipping had gone past.

Week 4 Post 2, and 3

Wednesday I walked into to finish some of the rest of the PVC parts, but was pulled away from those parts from my supervisor and said that I need to wash these small stainless steel parts and dry them with the air-hose. I've done this job many times before, its not fun but it gets the job done. So I got the pieces in little bags at about 50-100 pieces in each bag total. So I put those bags in separate little cups with holes in them to drain out the excess water. I turn on the sterilizer and put the cups into the sterilizer and wait a few minutes, after that I take them out and wash them in hot water from the sink. I take the air hose and start drying each piece one-by-one took 6 hours of my day to work on the pieces. I didn't finish all of them just yet.

Thursday, I walked in and took the little Stainless steel parts again and repeat the process again and got a little more done but I thought of a new way to clean them but ended up not working and backfired on me so I had to re-due 8 bags full of the still wet pieces which took away time for me to finish each piece again. So I did those 8 bags full of the pieces again and now they are completely dry again but clean. Didn't finish the pieces yet though.

Friday, I walked in today and finished the rest of the pieces which I thought I only had 5 more bags to finish but ended up having 3 more bags added in to the pile, I managed to finish all the pieces on time today, the order said that they needed 30,000 of the pieces finished and shipped out today, Friday. I had no idea I finished all 30,000 within 3 1/2 days of work this week spending up to 15-18 hours total within those 3 1/2 days. But I finished them, and had to move on to the PVC parts again but didn't get to finish those today either, because I had to finish my paper, and that Friday's are usually my days off every week, unless if there's another big order like today.

Rough Draft

Nick Robertson

S.C.O.R.E Paper

4/13/13

Ms. Tanner

Atlantic Industrial Models

            The Use of the technologies of computer programming relates to the number of prototypes that are being produced every day, by using the correct design firmware. The only machine that AIM uses is CNC or Computer Numerical Control. Which the CNC machines use the computer software CNC programming, which is very similar to the regular computer programming in the class Pro-E, which I took this year. Yet the CNC machines are very high-tech machines which only trained professionals can operate by law because of the amount of responsibility is needed. AIM supplies prototypes for both the Military and Medical manufactures. One of the top prototypes that AIM creates for the Military is the security cameras, protective computer cases. The top medical prototypes are X-rays and Cat Scans devices. AIM has many future contracts with all types of Military and Medical manufactures. The top company that AIM helps provides prototypes for the Military is Raytheon. The top Medical Company that AIM also helps provide prototypes for is Continuum. AIM benefits both the Military and Medical manufactures by designing the correct amount of prototypes that are needed. The Impact on the expansion of the Military and Medical manufacturing has a large impact on businesses and the American Economy. And a large percentage of money is going towards the economy for just one reason.

            The Military nearly spends at about 150million dollars a year for this company to design their exact amount of prototypes at an exact point in time to be finished. With an increasingly amount of computer programming materials that are being produced throughout the company by using the exact design firmware that is needed for the exact amount of prototypes, is a big impact on AIM for the production of materials. Just like the security cameras for the Military and the X-ray or CAT scan devices for the Medical manufactures. The percentage of output that goes towards the Military for the amount of prototypes that are being produced from AIM is at about 70-90% output. AIM benefits the Military not only by the percentages of output but, by keeping their future contracts a secret from other people and companies from stealing their designs.

            AIM also works for two Military contractors and provides many benefits and prototypes for each company in correct order to make sure they keep their contracts intact/ don’t lose their contracts from another company in the near future. The two big Military companies that AIM works for are Raytheon, and Versar. Both are huge contractors of AIM. Raytheon, one of their biggest contractors and the biggest Military Company around.  Raytheon helped the Military throughout all eras of war, and still is today with more modern technologies.

            This company has many contracts to follow with the Military, which include making and designing over 2000 prototypes for each military company in MA each year. This company has almost over 200 people that work at this company each week just to keep the flow of the prototypes and the contracts to keep going on in the future. If the amount of prototypes that are sent back, because of a miss connection of devices weren’t clean carefully, this would affect the time management that the CEO needs to pay his people to work and complete the designs before they are evaluated and sent out for shipping. And because they have many contractors at once, they need to spend half of their money towards the products to create the designs for each company. If there ends up being a mishap of a design or something goes wrong, that’s money going down the drain for the company. AIM creates different types of designs for the Military, such as Military protective cases for the bomb prof computer, and Military surveillance for air and ground control. This cost around 2000 dollars for each design to be created for these Military contractors each year.

            The Medical Field spends nearly 125billion dollars each year for their designs to be created by Atlantic Industrial Models. They use the exact same machine to create the designs as the Military, but use a different design firmware to create the designs for the Medical Field. They create the different designs for the Medical Field, such as X-rays, CAT Scans, and MRIs. Which AIM uses CNC machines to create both designs for Medical and military, but use different techniques to make sure that the designs are in correct order for each Medical manufacture. The firmware that AIM uses for the Medical Field is called Pro-engineering, just like what I used in class this year but more complex than what I used in School. This firmware is only for the designing of the Medical Field, not the Military.

            The Medical Field has contractors for two big design companies around MA itself. They both are huge contractors for Atlantic Industrial Models. They are reliable for AIM to keep working around the clock. The two design companies are, Design Continuum, and Eleven Design firm. Which the Eleven Design firm company gets its name from an old book called “1984”.  Eleven Design firm was founded in 1984 by Leo Burnett. AIM designs over 1000 designs or prototypes for each Medical Design Company each week.  The company, just like the Military, but less, the CEO has at approximately 90-110 people each week working on the Medical Field designs. This means, having more people working on one subject makes everything easier to finish on time. Having more people increases the manufacturing of designs. It also helps the company on track with everything.

            The percentage of output that goes towards the designs for the Medical Field is at approximately 80%. This helps both the Medical Field and AIM, because of the amount of prototypes that are being produced each week. The company helps their contractors by setting up a production time for all the designs to be made and to be shipped off to the nearest company. This allows the CEO to increase the amount of employees and pay for the company and for the Medical Field companies. This affects the company as well, by the cost of each product and each employee the CEO hires to finish the design on time. This also allows AIM to keep and protect the future contracts with the Medical Field companies, and to keep the production time up. In order for that to happen AIM needs to keep the supply of prototypes going out to each company with the correct amount of the designs. And to make sure they receive the correct prototypes and not some other company designs. If everything goes well with the contractors, this will provide a link towards other Medical Field contractors in the near future.

            Atlantic Industrial Models also as other local and distant contractors, but the CEO of the company wants to keep it a secret from other people of the outside world from spreading their secrets around to other companies. Even though the company may be smaller compared to other companies, considering that they only have 2 separate buildings both in Essex and Rowley, Massachusetts they still need to try to keep every company that they work for intact so then they don’t lose their company and business. By keeping their contractors intact this helps out the company in the near future, which leads to more contractors that want AIM to create more and more prototypes for each and every company every year. That keeps the company running for business along the way, and creates more money and products coming in and out for both the companies in Massachusetts. But if the company ends up spilling out their secrets to other people of other small companies that want big contractors, this could end up being a huge loss for the company and can cause the company going bankrupt if they end up losing their big contractors. The local and distant contractors pay Atlantic Industrial Models to both keep their contracts together and to make their products correctly. If Atlantic Industrial Models keeps each and every contractor together in the near future, this leads to more pay and more products to be produced each year. Also by keeping every secret of every contractor keeps the employees from slacking on each product and to keep business going smoothly for shipping out the contractors products on schedule. This also helps the CEO to keep the money straight and be able to hire more people if needed to keep the production line going smoothly, and to help out with extra production if needed to be done before the time runs out before being shipped out.

            Atlantic Industrial Models keeps expanding throughout the future from the amount of production for all their contractors of the medical field by manufacturing all types of prototypes and designs. Such as for the amount of products that have been pushed back, because the products haven’t been finished before the product had to be done, we as a company would have to work on all those parts to be shipped out before the second date of shipping came to an end. There are four steps to get the products that had to be ready for shipping; these are first you have to use an air hose to blow off all the remaining burrs that were put there from the CNC machines or Computer Numerical Control machines. Then after that you have to use these tools that are needed correctly to not damage these parts before they are able to be put through a vapor shocking machine. The tools that are needed to complete the second step of the products are, X-ACTO- Knife, Scotch sand paper, and a special chemical that is a secret to tell to others, because it’s a special rub on chemical for certain parts to make sure that nothing gets scratched or broken before starting the third and fourth step. Third step is to use the tools and get rid of the burrs and scratches and to make sure that there isn’t any sharp edges being shown, so then the product doesn’t get destroyed though out the fourth step, which is to put the part once finished through a special machine that includes toxic chemicals, that only high-trained professionals can use to complete the rest of the products before being shipped off to the contractors. After those steps are completed, they are ready to be soaked in water and dawn sensitive soap, then air dried by an air hose and be wrapped up in plastic bags and shipped off to the companies that need those parts. At approximately 65-70% of production go towards the smaller, but more distant contractors of the company Atlantic Industrial models. Atlantic Industrial Models creates over 100 devices for the smaller companies of the medical field, such as MRI chips, CAT scan chips, X-Rays, and Bio-chemical machine testers. Most of these products are made at the company in Rowley Massachusetts, because they are more high tech in chemicals, and a much bigger factory to keep their production to run the same, but with much more choices of high-tech machines. But some of the products get sent over to the company in Essex Massachusetts to be re-checked before being sent over to the big contractors, or to add on some other parts to the designs that needed to be put on, but the company in Rowley Massachusetts could finish because of other products that had to be finished that week. Between both the Essex, and Rowley AIM companies in Massachusetts, this increases the production by a huge increase to make sure each product is being carefully produced each year or each week. Plus it increases the amount of employees to be hired for this company whenever the CEO choses to pick those employees. For Atlantic Industrial Models both companies in Rowley and Essex Massachusetts they both have the same CNC machines to create the prototypes for every day commuters and for medical and military companies, but Rowley is much more efficient for creating the top products for those companies, and sometimes they will send over there uncompleted products over to Essex to finish those products to then ship them back to Rowley to be sent out to those contractors. So for the MRI, CAT scan, X-Ray, and Bio-chemical machine testers, they are handled by mostly in Rowley, because Essex doesn’t have the right equipment to make all those top notch products, that’s why the company has expanded to another area in Rowley, to be able to make sure they keep those contractors keep their contact intact for the near future. This is why they want to keep every secret they can from the other small engineer companies away from their information.

            The impact of the military and medical manufacturing has a large impact on other businesses and the American economy, and a large percentage of money is going towards the American economy for just one reason. These reasons are important for the military and medical companies but also for the Atlantic Industrial Models, because each design and prototype for the military and medical manufacturing has a purpose. One it helps the economy build, because of the mass production of these small businesses to help out the big everyday companies, which if the big companies pay the small companies for their help, and then those products get paid for the bigger companies. That’s how the economy mostly works by the small businesses and the big businesses keep intact to have equaled enough pay so then that helps everyone else in the economy. Two it helps the economy build equally because everyone in every business not just the engineering companies such as Raytheon, Versar, and Atlantic Industrial Models, because not just a few companies can build the American economy, it takes all types of businesses to help grow the economy the right way. The only way to keep the companies together is to keep the contracts together with those contractors, and then leads to more money being made for the American economy and the American people.  Not only that, but this helps both the people working in the medical field, and for those who are out across the seas fighting in war to keep America safe, and to keep themselves safe with the correct working designs.

            Atlantic Industrial Models or AIM is a creator of mechanical engineering, that isn’t just about prototypes every time, because most of their contractors need aluminum, steel, and stainless steel for their products for certain designs that those contractors are building. But AIM is a mechanical engineering company, because they get orders of these small stainless steel pieces or sometimes, small PVC parts that have been ordered from the company Continuum, but all these contractors help the business succeed in production or through the economy, Continuum is a multi-purpose company, because it helps all growth of the world for people and business. It helps the medical field, communities, and much more. They create the top notch brands for people in the communities, such as building a new bank, Swiffer, and helping the disabled people to do new things in their wheel chairs. But all these products that Continuum creates, is all being started at Atlantic Industrial Models from their mechanical engineering process. The process of creating the designs of mechanical engineering starts with the concept of CNC machines, and the Advantages and disadvantages of each machine, the disadvantages of the CNC machines are, that they are usually replaced more often than a LATHE machine, which is manually operated, and CNC machines are computer operated 24 hours a day. Other disadvantages of CNC machines are that if the cost goes up it could lead to unemployment, or that you don’t need a lot of people working on the CNC machines, which is another way of leading to unemployment. The advantages of the CNC machines are, that the CNC machines are created to make each component the exact measurement every time, without any slight variation to the part. Another is that only one person could easily watch over several machines while operating on a few of them, and that the CNC machines can have updated software to improve more production of new designs if needed. Also less trained or skilled employees could easily operate the CNC machines without any form of supervision if needed, unlike the LATHE machines which you would need training to operate the machine by law or OSHA.

 

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week 3 post 3

So Wednesday, was another start of the day that I walked in to finish the rest of the tape dispensers which again my supervisor said they weren't completed enough that he wanted so had to go again and again but just didn't know what else to do to be able to move on to another project. But that didn't happen again so after I tried and tried again to finish all 68 pieces again, I walked over to my supervisor and he brought me over to another guy that takes care these pieces the right way, and he said that I should use the back side of the knife and just go easy on the edges until they are smooth and to just check every edge and make sure they aren't sharp, so I followed what he said after I finished them I brought them over to him again to check them and he said they were perfect, and that I could bring them over to the sink to wash them in water and dawn sensitive soap, and them just air dry them with an air hose. Then bag them again and get them ready to be vaporized in the machine. After I finished those I moved on to a new project that I have not yet finished, because my shift was over once I started them, the paper said they need 288 pieces, so far on Thursday I have finished 50 pieces, a long way to go but my supervisor said I have until the 16th of May to finish them completely.

week 3 post 2

Tuesday was one of the other most interesting days of working at Atlantic Industrial Models or AIM, today I had to start a new project that lasted half way through Monday, so the product wasn't the greatest product that I wanted to work on today because all I did was used an X-ACTO knife and some Goo-Gone which is a scented chemical that gets rid of stickers that cant get off completely and other certain everyday stuff that just wont come off easily, such as wax. The product was called, Tape dispensers which are used for packing tape for boxes that need to be shipped out to far places out of state. So basically today was both interesting and boring at the same time, because I finished all 68 pieces, or so I thought I did, until my supervisor said it was a good job getting the burrs left over from the Computer Numerical Control or CNC. And to use the Goo-Gone chemical to get the left over tape or stickers that needed to be cleaned off. But I ended up scratching the pieces a few times, which wasn't good because that ends up making most of the pieces noticeable. But with these pieces they were clear and end up being put through a vapor chemical machine that only trained professionals are allowed to use. Because this machine uses the clear pieces to turn into black pieces and makes them much stronger to not break or be scratched. But I ended up having to go over them again, but didn't finish them just yet.

week 3 post 1

So again this week I have decided that it would be easier to write all 3 blogs today in one day. So Monday was the 3rd week of SCORE where as I learned a new technique from a few other work college's on Monday. So today was a fun day got up and ready for work at 730am and walked over to the factory and got started on these new parts that were ordered in to be shipped out in better condition. These products were very interesting to me because there is a step after de-burring the pieces, which this step is to wash the pieces with water and dawn sensitive soap. Usually when I wash other plastic parts they sink to the bottom of the bucket, but I was told that if the clear plastic parts float they are connected to a company called Thermo-tech which is a medical company where they use those certain parts to be put together for the Beverly and Salem hospitals. I have no idea what they are used for exactly, but that is really cool that I was able to figure out that I got to work on parts for the medical companies. After I finished those parts I was moved on to other parts that were much heavier that had to be washed in an ultrasonic that uses sound waves for the chemicals which took much longer to finish before I had to move on to much more parts. These parts were used for security cameras for the Military and other factories and companies. Monday was a very busy day for me this week to finish everything on time before they had to be shipped out.

week 2 post 3

Today, Wednesday, is my 3rd day on the job this week, today was an interesting day today, because I didn't really have much to do other than finishing up the release latches from Tuesday which I did finish them all before the breakfast break that we all have at 9:30am for 10mins. After those were done I had to go over to the sink once again and repeat the same steps with cleaning the pieces in the bucket, then using the air-hose again and air drying the pieces one-by-one once again. That took at about 20mins to finish the rest of the pieces, which there was 108 pieces that needed to be finished before the deadline was up. After I finished those, I moved on to a new set of pieces, which my second piece was metal that way I needed to use the sterilizer that we have, and had to poor the pieces into a small draining cup and put it into the sterilizer to be cleaned. After they went through the sterilizer, I washed them in cold water, and repeated the same steps with the air-hose. Then grabbed a small 3x4 bag and put each piece into the bag and put the paper that needed to be put into it to be shipped out. After those were finished I started another step, after my lunch break, which these are not yet finished. They are called, rotator latches which I was told that they are used in MRI's. Today though my supervisor was out sick with something and couldn't come in today, but even though he was out I got 2 of the 3 jobs done today.

week 2 post 2

Today again I haven't done my second post for Tuesday, which I am doing now. Tuesday was another eventful day to start off with, I walked in at 10am, because I had a doctors appointment which pushed back my hours, but I did let them know that I was going to be late. Even though I was late I still managed to finish my work half-way through my lunch break, which that was ok for me today, I had a big breakfast before at the last break that morning. The pieces that I had to work on Tuesday were pretty tough to finish on time before I had to leave for baseball. I didn't finish all of them Tuesday, but managed to finish them Wednesday. They were called release latches. which were tough to get each one completely done and clean. After I got half of the pieces done, I got bored and had nothing else to do for the last 10mins before I had to leave, I decided to just walk around and clean up the obvious stuff on the floor, just to keep the guys areas clean so then they don't get hurt. But then the shipping truck came by just before I had to leave and the guy that was working the shipping department wasn't on duty at the time, so I offered to help with the packages just to be active in duty of work. So after I lifted all the packages for order, I grabbed the boxes that needed to be shipped off to the UPS guy, which I was told to give to him from my supervisor that was walking around checking on everything.

week 2 post 1

So this week I forgot to do my first post on Monday, so I'll do all 3 post today. So for Monday I walked in after a week off from break, as I walked in everything that I have been working on has been finished over break, so that gave me a new job to work on during the 6 hours I had that day, I start on this new job on Monday that are called bracket attachments which are used for security cameras, which that's what I was told by my supervisor. In that case these were very important to finish before the deadline, because they are for the military surveillance cameras. After I was told what steps to use on the Bracket attachments, I went straight to it and got started and finished them all before lunch break. After lunch break was over I took all the finished pieces over to the sink where there is a bucket with sterilizer mixture inside with water. At that point I got all the pieces into the bucket and hand to put on gloves and start mixing the pieces around to make sure they are completely clean. After that step I had to take an air-hose and dry each piece one-by-one until all of them are clean completely. Once they were dried I grab an 18x26 plastic bag and put the 3 boxes of the pieces into the bag and zip it up, then grabbed a sharpie then wrote the new corrections of the information that was needed, and had to write down the correct number of how many pieces were ready to be shipped out.

Blog #3

So today as you know it was my 3rd day on SCORE, which this whole SCORE project isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Today I carried on through the morning de-burring the release latches, which are the things that I was de-burring yesterday. I have not yet finished all but hopefully will before the weekend so then they can be shipped off for sale.  After a few hours of finishing half of them one-by-one I was called over by an employee for help on creating shelves for supplies to get ready for shipping, which we had to use the forklift a few times for the supplies. After we finished that, it was break time so during my break I went outside for some fresh air, but then the UPS truck came over looking for my supervisor which then I really didn't have a break because I had to walk around the factory looking for my supervisor. Then I found him and had to unload the packages, after I did so I had to go back to de-burring the release latches. Eventually I got a break from doing the release latches and got to shadow some one using the machines again, and got to help out with a few parts before they were ready to be shipped off. So I got those done, and had to help a few others separating the scrap metal shavings into separate bins before being recycled to make sure they were safe enough to throw away without any sharp pieces to tear the bags open. Basically my day was the usual day of work at AIM(Atlantic Industrial Models) just sitting down working on the projects and getting them done so then the boss is happy before the day is over.

Blog #1

Today was my first day on the job for SCORE. So once I walked into the office, I meet up with my Supervisor and talked about what jobs I can start off with for today. Which my first job of the day was boring, but was worth getting some hard work in the morning. I basically had to make sure ever area was clean, because there was an OLA evaluation day today to make sure everything is running in tip-top shape so then we can keep our contracts in line for the future. Which keeping every station of the machines clean means more safety for others. Even though it's a boring job, but safety comes first. That was my first part of the day of work. Got all the cleaning up for the morning, but by law since I'm not of age or 18 I can't use all of the machines. Which I was looking forward to use the machines and actually make something on my first day of SCORE, but that's ok I still have another 5 weeks to start getting use to everything and hopefully to get to use the machines before SCORE ends. The second part of the job I got to help build a few pieces of material before they were ready to be shipped out to one of our big contractors that we have. After I helped create the parts I had to use a cleaning machine called the Ultrasonic, which shakes the water with the pieces inside it to shake off the remainder of the grease and sheet metal inside the holes of the pieces. After they were put through the ultrasonic I had to put them on a paper towel and use a air hose and spray each piece by hand dry and stack them in separate groups and label how many pieces of work were left total, and then send them off for shipping.

Nicholas Robertson's Outline

Nick Robertson

SCORE Research Paper Outline:

I.                    Introduction: The use of the technologies of computer programming relates to the number of prototypes that are being produced every day, by using the correct design firmware.

A.     The use of new technologies of computer programming (Computer Numerical Control).

B.     They supply prototypes for both the Military and Medical manufactures.

C.     They have many future contracts with all different types of companies of both the Military and Medical manufactures.

D.     They benefit both the Military and Medical manufactures by designing the correct prototypes for both the Military and Medical manufactures.

E.     Thesis: The impact on the expansion of the Military and Medical manufacturing has a large impact on businesses and the American Economy. And a large percentage of money is going towards the economy for just one reason.

II.                 The Military nearly spends at about 150million dollars a year for this company to design their exact prototypes at an exact point in time to be finished.

A.     With an increasingly amount of Computer programming materials that are being produced throughout the company by using the exact design firmware for the exact prototype.

B.     The percentages of the output of these designs go for about 70-90% towards the Military.

C.     This companies design benefits the Military not only by the percentage of output but, by keeping all their contracts/future contracts a secret from other people and companies.

III.               This company also works for 2 Military contract companies and provides many benefits and prototypes for each company in correct order to make sure they keep their contracts intact/don’t lose their contacts in the near future.

A.     They work for both Raytheon, and Versar. Which are both huge Military design companies.

B.     Raytheon, one of their biggest contracts and the biggest Military Company around in MA that sides with the Military and the Company.

IV.              This company has many contracts to follow with the Military, which include making and designing over 2000 prototypes for each Military company in MA each year.

A.     This company has almost over 200 people that work at this company each week just to keep the flow of the prototypes and the contracts to keep going on and on.

B.     This affects the company by the amount of time and management that the CEO needs to pay his people to work and complete the designs before the time period passes.

C.     And because they have many contractors, they need to spend half of their money towards the products to create the designs for each company.

D.     This company creates different types of designs for the Military, such as Military protective cases, and Military surveillance. This cost around 2000 dollars for each of those products to be made.

V.                 The Medical Field spends nearly 125billion dollars each year for their prototypes to be created.

A.     They use the exact same Machines to create the prototypes as the Military, but use a different design firmware to create the exact designs for the Medical Field.

B.     They create different designs for the Medical Field, such as chips for the X-Rays, MRI’s, and Cat Scans.

C.     They use the Computer Numerical Control programmers to create all types of prototypes.

D.     They use the computer programmer called, Pro-Engineering to control the machines to cut a certain spot.

VI.              The medical Field has contractors for 2 big design companies around MA itself. They both are huge contractors that are reliable for the company to keep working around the clock.

A.     The 2 design contractors are Design Continuum, and Eleven Design Firm. Which the Eleven Design Firm Company got its name from an old book called “1984”.

B.      The company designs over 1000 prototypes for each Medical Design Company each week.

C.     The company, just like the Military, but less, the CEO has at approximately 90-110 people each week to finish each design for all the Medical Companies.

i.                     Having more people come in to help make sure everything is in order helps the company moving.

ii.                   Increases the manufacturing.

iii.                  Helps everyone stay calm and on task.

VII.            The percentage of output that goes towards the designs for the Medical Field is at approximately 80%.

A.     This helps both the Medical field and the company itself because of the amount of prototypes that are being produced each week.

B.     The company helps their contractors by setting up a production time for all the prototypes to be made and to be sent out to the contractors on time.

C.     This increases the amount of employees and pay for the company and the Medical Field.

D.     This affects the company by the cost of each product and of each man that the CEO hires in order to finish the Design on time.

E.      This also helps the company to keep their future contracts with the Companies of the Medical Field, and keeps production as well.

i.                     Keeps the supply of prototypes going out to each company.

ii.                   Provides a link towards other Medical Design Companies in the future.

VIII.         The company also as some other local and distant Medical contractors, but the CEO of the company wants to keep it a secret from other people outside from spreading it around to other companies.

A.     The CEO wants to keep their contract intact with these other local and distant companies to keep production in the near future.

B.     If the company ends up letting out the secret of the other contractors, they might end up losing business with those companies.

C.     For these local and distant contractors pay the company to keep production within their contract.

D.     This secret between the other contractors keeps them from slacking from the production of each prototype, and means that the CEO can hire other people if he needs them to be working there for extra production help.

IX.              The company keeps expanding throughout the future from all the contractors. And this company benefits each contractor of the Medical Field by manufacturing all types of designs and prototypes.

A.     The company provides production times for each and every contractor of the Medical Field.

B.     And at approximately 65-70% of production goes towards the smaller, but more distant contractors of the company.

i.         The company creates over 100 devices for the smaller companies of the Medical Field.

1.      MRI chips

2.      Cat Scan chips

3.      X-Rays

4.      Bio-Chemical machine testers.

X.                 The impact on the expansion of the Military and Medical manufacturing has a large impact on businesses and the American Economy. And a large percentage of money is going towards the economy for just one reason.

A.     Each design and prototype for both the Military and Medical manufacturing has a purpose:

i.                     Helps the economy build

ii.                   Helps the company build production

iii.                  Keeps the contractors intact with their contract

iv.                 Helps both the people that work in the Medical Field, and the people out fighting in the war with these different designs to keep other safe.

B.     New designs will soon be created as the contractors keep their alliance with the company.

C.     More production will soon be followed with more technologies and techniques.

D.     Technology will become a greater purpose to both Fields of work.

Annotated Bibliography:

General information and sources was found from the following resources:

[1] "Versar." Versar.com. N.p., 2011. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.versar.com/>.

[2] "Raytheon Company: History." Raytheon Company: History. N.p., 2008-2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.raytheon.com/ourcompany/history/>.

[3] "Eleven, LLC." Eleven LLC. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://eleven-llc.com/about/the-history/>.

[4] "Continuum." Continuum Careers. N.p., 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://continuuminnovation.com/about/careers/>.

[5] "Advantages and Disadvantages of CNC Machines." Advantages and Disadvantages of CNC Machines. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.technologystudent.com/cam/cncman4.htm>.

[6] "CNC Machine." YouTube. YouTube, 21 Mar. 2007. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPojGFg9-8>.

[7] "CNC Concepts, Inc." What Are CNC Machine? N.p., 2007. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.cncci.com/general pages/who are we.htm>.

[8] Parker, Phillip M. A Strategic Reference. Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Metal-Cutting Machines in China. N.p.: ICON Group International, 2007. N. pag. Print.

[9] "CNC-West." Review. CNC Metal Working 1981: n. pag. CNC-West. 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.cnc-west.com/>.

[10] "ALANIS Engineering Company." ALANIS. N.p., Spring 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.manta.com/mb_55_A62C7ASW_91P/design_engineers/essex_ma>.

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