Luke a 4th year apprentice in 2007.
Luke designed and installed a guard for the rolling line coil pit sensors. Information from Production showed 16.5 hours of downtime was due to damaged sensors. As a result of Luke's project this downtime has now been reduced to zero. Luke also designed and manufactured a drill head guard whichc not only improves the safety of the machine but also makes it easier to change the drills thereby limiting downtime at changeover. Finally he designed and made a new style saw guard. The old Perspex guard kept getting damaged, 6 replaced in the previous 12 month peiod, each one taking 2 hours to replace. In contrast the new fine mesh guard has not needed a replacement in over 12 months.

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