New Toy at Work (Blu-Ray production line)

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Just thought some of you may be interested in this...

Ignore the date on the crappy camera...

We've just taken delivery of our 1st Blu-ray production line...:cool:

This is the Injection machine, it was raining a bit (that's not me by the way)

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu1.jpg

Single layer module on the left, Double layer on the right.

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu2.jpg

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu4.jpg

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu5.jpg

Trying to get the exhaust sorted out.

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu6.jpg

Utilities & Power

Water In / Out (x2), Air (x2), Leccy (x2)
Argon, Nitrogen 5.0, Nitrogen 3.0

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu7.jpg

Discs go through cooling tunnel to line here.

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu8.jpg

A shot of a bit of the inside.

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/im/imillman/2008/11/06/Blu10.jpg
 
^Awesome. Love to know about manufacturing techniques for different things. In fact, taking a tour of a factory first thing tomorrow morning for a school project. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks!
Very interesting!
 
Update...

We got the line working today, sort-of...

Injection machine passed discs to the Single layer module with Ag (Silver) and SiN (Silicon Nitride) sputtering, no lacquer though, the exhaust isn't right, too much back pressure, Ozone overload from the UV lamps :puke: (the UV lamps generate ozone which should go through the exhaust, but as it doesn't, it blows back and gives you a headache instead).

We have a leak in the N5 line too, but it works OK.

Also the Dual layer module isn't properly aligned, discs flying everywhere...

More Blu-Ray entertainment on Monday.

Any questions ? ... :)
 
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Seems like a lot of work just to pirate some movies ;)
 
^^^ As I was explaining to my (68 year old) Dad, earlier on today, in the pub...

Pirate movies or direct movie downloads will be the death of my job.

I reckon we have about 5 years left before the internet makes DVDs redundant.

Blu-ray may last a while longer due to the size of downloads for HD content.

My Job is in your hands...:eek:
 
Wow. That monster looks more expensive than anything I've ever personally touched.
 
Make sure you print us some free porn. Thanks.
 
GTV V6 said:
^^^ As I was explaining to my (68 year old) Dad, earlier on today, in the pub...

Pirate movies or direct movie downloads will be the death of my job.

I reckon we have about 5 years left before the internet makes DVDs redundant.

Blu-ray may last a while longer due to the size of downloads for HD content.

My Job is in your hands...:eek:
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Thanks for putting a face to it all! Now I'll never be able to pirate again!!!

Wait, what? He works in another DVD region? Oh, nevermind. :p
 
I asked the boss of Singulus Spain how much the machine is worth.

Yours for a paltry ?1.8M or about $2.3M at today's exchange rate.

No, I don't know how it will pay for it's self either ...
 
toma_alimosh said:
^Awesome. Love to know about manufacturing techniques for different things. In fact, taking a tour of a factory first thing tomorrow morning for a school project. :thumbsup:
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you wanna have a tour round a steel works... particularly a beam mill since the whole things gotta have each stage in series (and slabs of steel get stretched out to over 200m long) the actual mill building ends up like a mile long and you can pretty much follow a slab from the crane yard, through the furnace, roughing mill, cogging mill, shears, saws, cooling stacks, straightener or gag press right out the other side of the mill on the back of a lorry.

its a way cool thing to see since you can see every stage really easily.... and secondly everythings absolutely huge! i saw them removing a drive shaft from the cogging mill once and it required 2 cranes and HGV with an extendable, steerable trailer! damn thing was like 15-20m long and about 1m in diameter (or more) with a sodding huge U-joint on the end.
 
Mh, is that machine for producing the discs themselves or does it put the data on empty ones?
 
idk said:
Mh, is that machine for producing the discs themselves or does it put the data on empty ones?
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It produces the discs, with the information already on. Recordable discs are another story altogether.
 
Cool thingie. Do you have to install that all with your own people, no technicians from the producer?
 
CyberMonkey said:
Cool thingie. Do you have to install that all with your own people, no technicians from the producer?
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We installed the services, a specialist company came with a big forklift to get it off the truck and into the cleanroom.

The machine maker has 2 technicians here for 2 weeks and a technician from Singulus Spain will basically live in our factory for the next month or so.

The machine was assembled and tested in Germany before being shipped so basically we just have to put it back together, get everything level and aligned before running acceptance tests.
 
We make the discs (CD/DVD and now bluray)

Customer sends us the data (software, music. film, etc)

We can do premastering (menus for DVDs for example)
We can make the glass master (not for bluray at the moment) and stamper,
Replicate the discs,
Confirm quality using in-line and off-line analysis,
Print the Discs,
Pack the discs (New bluray packing machine coming in 2 weeks),
Ship the discs.

I sound like an advert.
 
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