Why the fuck does someone need a wrench connected to the internet in the first place?
I went appliance shopping recently and the salesman tried to get me on board with a WiFi connected fridge, his sales pitch was that I’ll get a push notification on my phone when the air or water filter need to be changed, and there’s a camera so if I’m at the store and I can’t remember if I need to buy milk, I can open the camera app and view the inside of my fridge and see my milk level. GTFO, not everything needs to have an app or internet service.
It might measure resistance in a specific way, tell the conveyor belt to move on once a certain parameter happens… I have no idea, but these wrenches are clearly made for manufacturing and not individuals
For normal consumers, it is absolutely a useless and stupid feature.
For safety-critical assembly line and maintenance applications, having the torque wrench networked enables a high degree of auditability. A highly pertinent current example would be the 737 MAX9 fuselage plug issues - if this device were incorporated into production and maintenance processes, it could enable manufacturing and maintenance audits down to the precise torque value used for each fastener, which likely could have prevented the issue entirely. Or… considering the timing, maybe they were being used, and the wrenches were compromised.
Not too lazy to read the article, I think its a stupid feature. For decades industries have managed with high skill employees and manual torque wrenches. Somehow logging torque specs in a data base is going to solve problems or being able to remotely access said data base to make sure the tourque setting is correct? How about hire competent people with the right skills and give them the time they need to do a good job. How about having floor supervisors that actually know, and have done the job they’re overseeing to regularly check the torque specs. Boeing QC and safety has been on a downhill slide for decades, right around the time that the merger with McDonnell Douglas happened.
Why the fuck does someone need a wrench connected to the internet in the first place?
I went appliance shopping recently and the salesman tried to get me on board with a WiFi connected fridge, his sales pitch was that I’ll get a push notification on my phone when the air or water filter need to be changed, and there’s a camera so if I’m at the store and I can’t remember if I need to buy milk, I can open the camera app and view the inside of my fridge and see my milk level. GTFO, not everything needs to have an app or internet service.
It might measure resistance in a specific way, tell the conveyor belt to move on once a certain parameter happens… I have no idea, but these wrenches are clearly made for manufacturing and not individuals
You could read the article and find out.
Modern fridges need filter changed? Our old one just runs.
For ones that have the water spout and ice maker, yes
Air filter though?
Yeah good call, haven’t heard of a fridge with an air filter
If you’re too lazy to read the article:
For normal consumers, it is absolutely a useless and stupid feature.
For safety-critical assembly line and maintenance applications, having the torque wrench networked enables a high degree of auditability. A highly pertinent current example would be the 737 MAX9 fuselage plug issues - if this device were incorporated into production and maintenance processes, it could enable manufacturing and maintenance audits down to the precise torque value used for each fastener, which likely could have prevented the issue entirely. Or… considering the timing, maybe they were being used, and the wrenches were compromised.
Not too lazy to read the article, I think its a stupid feature. For decades industries have managed with high skill employees and manual torque wrenches. Somehow logging torque specs in a data base is going to solve problems or being able to remotely access said data base to make sure the tourque setting is correct? How about hire competent people with the right skills and give them the time they need to do a good job. How about having floor supervisors that actually know, and have done the job they’re overseeing to regularly check the torque specs. Boeing QC and safety has been on a downhill slide for decades, right around the time that the merger with McDonnell Douglas happened.