Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
The Automatic Box Maker
An automatic taping machine isn't the only time saver at work in Newegg's warehouse, at the end of the production line there's an automatic box maker that takes collapsed cardboard boxes and folds them into a box that's ready for your order.
There's a stack of collapsed boxes on an incline that feed the machine as you can see below:
A set of four suction cups lunge at the first collapsed box attaching themselves to it and pull it out, thus expanding the box:
With the box fully expanded, the bottom flaps are folded in and the box is pushed along:
After it's done with one box, the machine resets itself and begins on the next:
The automated box maker makes a lot of boxes:
Between the picker, the extensive rolling conveyers, peanut guns, automatic box maker and taping machine things are bound to go wrong. Just in case you were wondering, Newegg does keep a handful of spare parts for all of the machinery in their warehouse:
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Mant - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
You are a tool.Id like to shoot you with that peanut gun...not really
MIKEMIKE - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
the link seems borked for me.Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Fixed :)Take care,
Anand
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Boo. :)Mant - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Yeah, PLEASE fix that link for the giveaway!DigitalFreak - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
If you can't figure out how to reconstruct the link, you can't enter. It's part of the contest.huges84 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I don't know if this is a local/ISP issue ro what, but I was on page 3 of this article and when I clicked on page 4 it just loaded the top and side Anandtech theme, no article. I retried it several times and no dice. Then I reloaded page 3 (which had loaded fine before) and I got the same problem. Then I reloaded the home page and it is no longer there either. :(huges84 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
BTW when I try to access a page in the article it sends me here:http://search.anandtech.com/search?site=atweb_coll...">http://search.anandtech.com/search?site...om=%3CHO...
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Sorry, it got pushed live before it was finished :) It's back up again.Take care,
Anand
segagenesis - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Having been a NewEgg customer for about three years now, it was nice to see some insight at how things go on behind the scenes (alot different than I expected). By the way, the larger image links are broken :/