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<blockquote data-quote="JayH" data-source="post: 44244" data-attributes="member: 1244"><p>They weren't ever running 24/7, no and certainly not by the time I left. What was a 300+ unit/day operation when I joined was down to under 200/day when I left thanks to the influx of Zirconia solutions and the race to the bottom.</p><p></p><p>The oldest LavaForm there is M118. I'm thinking it was '02 or '03, yes but the latest is only about two or three years old. And the younger the mill didn't necessarily equate to the most consistent or least troublesome.</p><p></p><p>Every single one of those units also saw an Annual PM every year, and a semi-annual PM every year. That's a full check up, recalibration, and mandatory part replacement on specific parts, as well as the ones out of spec, every six months. And by a 3M employee, not someone who doesn't have the service manuals, specs, tools to do the job like the manufacturer intended. Roger Holman has got to be the most experienced LavaForm tech on the planet!</p><p></p><p>If I was looking for a LavaForm I'd go there first but I'm not looking!</p><p></p><p>The question was prompted by my taking offense to your suggestion that I didn't take care of my equipment when I was the manager there. That and it seems to me that you make statements/judgement calls based on analyses lacking all the data (e.g. you called me a 3Shape lover in the thread on white light vs laser scanning.) My apologies to you for getting defensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JayH, post: 44244, member: 1244"] They weren't ever running 24/7, no and certainly not by the time I left. What was a 300+ unit/day operation when I joined was down to under 200/day when I left thanks to the influx of Zirconia solutions and the race to the bottom. The oldest LavaForm there is M118. I'm thinking it was '02 or '03, yes but the latest is only about two or three years old. And the younger the mill didn't necessarily equate to the most consistent or least troublesome. Every single one of those units also saw an Annual PM every year, and a semi-annual PM every year. That's a full check up, recalibration, and mandatory part replacement on specific parts, as well as the ones out of spec, every six months. And by a 3M employee, not someone who doesn't have the service manuals, specs, tools to do the job like the manufacturer intended. Roger Holman has got to be the most experienced LavaForm tech on the planet! If I was looking for a LavaForm I'd go there first but I'm not looking! The question was prompted by my taking offense to your suggestion that I didn't take care of my equipment when I was the manager there. That and it seems to me that you make statements/judgement calls based on analyses lacking all the data (e.g. you called me a 3Shape lover in the thread on white light vs laser scanning.) My apologies to you for getting defensive. [/QUOTE]
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