Thursday, December 23, 2010

Work in an Ice Cream Factory


This morning I worked in Israel's largest ice cream factory! The meeting room was lined with freezers full of experimental products, such as different kinds of KremBO (a superpopular sweet), icecreams and caramel bars. And some secret suprises. No way to keep fasting in that room. I didnt.

I was contracted to correct the presentation of another engineer that was rejected by the regulators. The piping is terribly complicated (see the different colored pipes which no one knows what are conveying and to where). No piping scheme or drawing is available. It was built adding and changing new production lines and improving and enlarging the equipment. In the last forty years. Yehuda, the Maintainance Manager, was confused about what connects to what. Moreover, he didnt like that I was taking pictures in his factory. Now I have this weekend to imagine how all of it works. The people who employed me must believe I am such a brilliant engineer that I can walk through the factory with an ice cream cone in my hand and submit in a weekend the detailed engineering drawings.

The fact is that it works, the ice cream is excellent, now I have to put all on paper, calculate pressures and flows and temperatures and so on.

5 comments:

Mark Doane said...

Why is this post tagged "war"?

J said...

It is a war.

J said...

It is a war.

Mark Doane said...

Is that a reference to your wife's efforts to redecorate your house?

J said...

Mark, yes, and I deleted the reference. Redecorating is such a mess.