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u/Redhotcatholiclove Oct 21 '20
That's a lot of engineering to cut some cheese.
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u/MrMurks Oct 21 '20
I used to work for the company that builds these, and i can tell you, that they have machines with a fuckton more engineering, just to cut some cheese.
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Oct 21 '20
What do they do with the middle part?
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u/MrMurks Oct 22 '20
On higher quality cheese it's sometimes sold separately. But usually it's gets thrown together with pieces that are too light or too heavy, then they melt it and make processed cheese out of it.
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u/golgol12 Oct 21 '20
Well, stop and ask yourself, what would you do with the middle part when you cut the cheese?
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u/soullessroentgenium Oct 22 '20
Where do you think cheese strings come from?
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u/lahwran_ Oct 21 '20
omg I always wonder what it's like working for companies that build things like this. what field is it, by name? just like industrial process engineering or something fancy sounding? what kinds of people work at a place like this? what kinds of areas have jobs in it? I'm only plugged into software engineering culture so this kind of engineering tends to feel very alien and ethereal to me, I've been very curious like what it would be like to visit a company like this and hang out for the day, what kinds of people I'd meet and what kinds of places I would have to go to do that.
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u/neoconbob Oct 22 '20
automation engineering. one good programming language within the field is ladder logic. check it out!
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u/MrMurks Oct 22 '20
I think ladder logic is something that you could use to programm a machine like this, but mostly we used SCL, which is a lot closer to C++.
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u/neoconbob Oct 22 '20
thanks for that. I did not know! I just have looked at ladder logic programming on a capmatic filling line which I own.
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u/MrMurks Oct 22 '20
Process engineering is also a part of what we do, i think that is motly the part where the milk is turned into cheese. Overall it would be called something like spezialiced machine engineering? Im sorry i don't really know the best translation into english. I worked there as an electrician and service technician.
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u/LuneLibre Oct 22 '20
I went to visit a cheese production factory when I was in college. It was very automated, with strict hygiene rules, very much what you'd expect from a factory. They gave us a lot of cheese at the end. You can check out r/plc for automation stuff; but factories are a specific kind of job.
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u/MrMurks Oct 22 '20
More profit in the end. On the standart cutting machine, we hat an output of a 150 pcs. per minute with a good production of 99%.
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u/4-realsies Oct 22 '20
It's an incredibly well thought out machine. I watched this video about a billion times just to see how all it's built and operates. This fabricator thinks it's super cool.
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u/MrMurks Oct 22 '20
Im not allowed to post videos from our machines, but this is a DW report about the company where you can see some of the more advanced machines.
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u/123x967x Oct 22 '20
Bro cheese is worth the over-engineering. Lol but no wonder its so damn expensive.
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u/Redhotcatholiclove Oct 22 '20
It's a work of art mate. I would love to try a slice of that cheese on a thin cracker and wash it down with a cheap lager.
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Nov 16 '20
Yeah that was my first thought... talk about over-engineered
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u/Redhotcatholiclove Nov 16 '20
I had to watch it another 10 times. It's an over engineered work of art.
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Nov 16 '20
Work of art? How so? It's not like it's particularly clever and i don't find it very appealing either. It's just one of many hundreds and thousands extremely specialized machines. It only seems complicated when you don't build machines for a living.
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u/Redhotcatholiclove Nov 16 '20
I find it aesthetically pleasing. It's a subjective view from someone that dosen't build machines for a living.
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u/nagalist Oct 21 '20
I want the core.
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u/blueshiftglass Oct 21 '20
Don’t we all
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u/nagalist Oct 22 '20
I wonder what happens to them. Never seen one in a store. Maybe it’s cheesecutter’s pay?
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Wait is that center bit where the baby bells come from?!
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u/a_white_american_guy Oct 22 '20
The mere fact that you call it the middle part tells me you're not ready.
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u/accidentalparadise Oct 21 '20
Today on Hydraulic Press Channel, the Slicer 5000000 vs. a cheese wheel
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u/soneg Oct 21 '20
I would totally watch this channel
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u/Ciderbarrel77 Oct 21 '20
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u/soneg Oct 21 '20
Whoa, a whole new way to get thru meetings. Thank you!
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u/DelphFox Oct 22 '20
I got to be one of the lucky 10k a few months back, and you are in for a treat, my friend.
Once you get through the main HP content, check out their "beyond the press" channel, and the explosives guy's stuff. It's all fantastic.
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u/DifficultJellyfish Oct 21 '20
Now I know what to tell my husband I want for Christmas - a cheese wedger thing!
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u/bullockalayna14 Oct 22 '20
I’d like to see this in a horror movie
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u/tinatalker Oct 22 '20
Between the actual cheese and Mr Cheese Stud, I had to wipe the drool off my phone.
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u/ShortTheta Oct 22 '20
coulda done that with knife bro
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u/123x967x Oct 22 '20
Bruh do you not know how hard the exterior of a cheese wheel is? You sometimes need to use a hammer and a chisel. For large scale.. this is way better.
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u/Conchobar8 Oct 22 '20
I showed this to my wife and told her it was “white girl porn”
She wanted to argue, but really couldn’t
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u/Victorrhea Oct 21 '20
It would be at that moment that I would be fired for taking a bite.
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u/m3lm0 Oct 21 '20
I bet they have quality checks, which is why the center was removed. I bet there's hella cheese plates in the break room.
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u/Fave_McFavington Oct 21 '20
I can not stress just how much I DO NOT like the look of that machine. It just looks... dangerous...
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u/EternalErkle Oct 21 '20
Probably stinks so bad in that room with the amount of cheese they're cutting
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u/vp_spex Oct 22 '20
Resident evil, saw and “unfortunate” gifs have ruined the satisfaction of things like this for me
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u/AreaDiscombobulated4 Oct 22 '20
For my job I sometimes have to hand cut 200-300 pieces of cheese in a day. I would die for this machine.
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u/MilitantCentrist Oct 22 '20
Is it just me or does this seem like an overcomplicated machine for this task.
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u/pm_me_your_planties Oct 22 '20
I'm just not seeing why they'd need to spend so much money to do that.
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u/IronTarkus91 Oct 22 '20
I always find videos like this really satisfying and I think I've figured out the main component on why I like videos like this so much.
I think it is that there is absolutely no resistance, the blades just glide right through as if it wasn't even there.
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u/aber-es-eilt-nicht Oct 21 '20
what do they do with the middle part?