Re: Dust and plasticiser haze

[Arthur Entlich <artistic-1@xxxxxxx>]

I saw a television show a few years back that showed how some of 
Japanese industry is done, which I found amazing.  It was in the more 
rural areas of Japan.  Farmers there, who might be raising livestock or 
growing fruit and veggies, would have one barn converted which would 
have a robot that does molding and spray painting of CD players or VCR 
cases.  So they farmed during the day, and then after dinner molding and 
spray painted cases for high tech devices.

Other places had women (mainly) sorting parts and bagging them, or 
assembling chassis for televisions or CD players, also in low tech 
buildings on farms.

Those videos and photographs they like to show with everyone in hair 
nets and white lab coats and gloves may occur at some urban factories, 
but apparently that's only part of the story.

So, anything is possible, even in Japan.

I remember when laser discs were first being produced in the US, they 
were being made at a factory that used to make something else for 
Philips, like cassette recorders.  They were experiencing huge failure 
rates with the laser discs, and it wasn't until they visited the factory 
that they found out why.  In interviewing the employees the vast 
majority had no idea what it was they were making or how it was used, or 
how delicate it was.  They were not wearing proper protective wear to 
keep things clean, and they weren't removing their rings or bracelets 
and the disks were getting scuffed and scratched along the way.

They finally got smart and gave each employee a laser disc player, and 
some discs, and explained what they were making there, and suddenly the 
yields went up higher than in their Japan plants.

Art

gary wrote:

> Clean room space at the level needed for building a scanner should not be a
> problem. I am starting to suspect Epson farms the manufacturing out to some
> schlock organization. Does the scanner really say "Japan" on the bottom?


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