Around The Island Again

This year, the travel vacation had combined the noon festival which was more than night days. Due to the trip abroad Thailand recently, we had planned to travel around island with the Lanyu where I had never been before. First day, as usual, we started from the eastern of Taiwan. However, this time we want to focus more on the Taitung where we had less chance to visit. The first destination was Qingshui Cliff. I had been visited here several times by bicycle, foot, and car, but this time we would go round with canoe to enjoy the different view from the ocean. This was the long-distance trip from Taoyuan to Hualien, so we had taken the break and eaten the lunch in Suao Township and arrived at the Qingshui Cliff in the 15:00 on time.Fortunately, because there was not the summer vacation, the participants were much fewer than we had expected.

Our coach had instructed the standard steps of getting on and off the canoe. Although, it was cloudy day, the temperature was suitable for enjoying floating on the ocean more than an hour. In the beginning, I exactly feel that it was difficult to control the canoe overcome the wave on the ocean. However, after several minutes, I got used to be along with wave and the canoe won’t overturn easily. Meanwhile, the coach suggested that we could do something more because it was obviously safety with the rescue clothing. Thus, we jumped into the ocean and enjoy the moment of swimming and seeing magnificent view of Qingshui Cliff. When the time closed to the end, it begun raining, and we had the misery process of going ashore. Generally speaking, it was an unforgettable experience not only for the Qingshui Cliff but also the canoe. This evening was the only period we would stay in the Hualien, so we went to the new opened department store and night market far from downtown. There were nothing special, and we would set off to the Taitung city in the morning of the second day.

Responsible for Automation Expo

After several experiences of exhibition participation, though I have lost the fresh feeling, the demonstration product is still much meaningful for me. It is the first equipment whose electrical design and software had been developed by myself. Fortunately, the product development had been launched earlier, especially for the PC software which had also showed in the last exhibition with the different communication version. On the other hand, the servo press itself which is the protagonist of this exhibition had been also started to be developed last year, although it hadn’t passed the formal functional and quality verifications currently. Thus, I want to test some critical function among the preparation of this exhibition, including the external communication which would be applied along the time in the demonstration process. By contrast, the entirely control of the machine had been launched merely three months ago. In the beginning, my daily work focused on the electrical design which I had to issue the diagram earlier but I was really good at. I had spent much time on referring the previous design and arrange the structural configuration into what is suitable for this demonstration.

However, the parts had been imported late, so the assembly progress had been delay also. In the schedule, I was supposed to test the demonstrated motion since July, but finally I had taken over the machine on the mere ten days before the exhibition. The main control of the equipment would be written in the PLC which simply consists of the basic program with the few pages in HMI and both of them I had finished last month. Initially, I faced the problem from hardware including the motor and external control module. The motor problem was just a joke because there was a mistake from the assembly. But the problem of external control module I exactly couldn’t find out the root cause, eventually I could do nothing but change the external control module. Next several steps, we conducted more smoothly, I had tried the communication between two machines and run the motion we would show on the exhibition. Another serious problems from the computer which had been installed the PC software to collect the data from servo press and show the chart and report. However, the PC installed the windows 7 lacked a large amount of essential framework library. I had really tried my hard time to install the different sorts of element with the bad quality network.