We completed the initial load of the system, but I keep this page here to show the progress and speed with which our movers were able to load books into the ARS.

This is a limited diary of this process with footnotes offering reasons for differences in speed.
(More below)

Day # Month Day,Year	Aisle 1 Running Total	Aisle 2 Running Total	Aisle 3 Running Total	Aisle 1-3 Running Total(sum)	Aisle 1-3 Half-Day Total(diff)	Aisle 1-3 Full-Day Total(diff)	Special note
1.0 Aug. 1,2000	-	-	-	-	-	-	Week 1 : Pre-load information not available / no pre-load data
1.5 Aug. 1,2000	1418	1615	1464	4497	***	-	*** Day of training and testing Pre-load information not available / no pre-load data
2.0 Aug. 2,2000	3641	4449	4032	12122	7625	7625	* Multiple items required double scan to copy into ARS Manager Database
2.5 Aug. 2,2000	6256	6919	6124	19299	7177	14802	* Multiple items required double scan to copy into ARS Manager Database
3.0 Aug. 3,2000	8771	9435	8954	27160	7861	7861	* Multiple items required double scan to copy into ARS Manager Database
3.5 Aug. 3,2000	11820	12606	12196	36622	9462	17323	* 9462 in 4 hours! Fastest 4 hour load time to date!
3.9 Aug. 3,2000	12057	12606	12606	37269	647	17970	* ME Load Balance/Sync Project
4.0 Aug. 4,2000	15184	15543	15756	46483	9214	9214	* Unexpected shutdown of power caused some delays
4.5 Aug. 4,2000	19076	18859	19070	57005	10522	19736	* Fire Alarm Tests slowed load, but still managed to create a new 4 hour record!
5.0 Aug. 5,2000	22536	21700	22184	66420	9415	9415	-
5.5 Aug. 5,2000	25233	23688	24648	73569	7149	16564	* Stopped early (3 hours instead of 4)
6.0 Aug. 6,2000	25233	23688	24648	73569	-	-	* No processing: Day off
6.5 Aug. 6,2000	25233	23688	24648	73569	-	-	* No processing: Day off
7.0 Aug. 7,2000	28295	26727	28122	83144	9575	9575	* Accidental E-Stop depression slowed work-flow
7.5 Aug. 7,2000	32079	30096	31098	93273	10129	19704	* Human error brought down 2 Aisles, and the 3rd one had a mechanical error. All were fixed within 10 minutes of notification, but we still exceeded 10,000 items in a 4 hour period!
8.0 Aug. 8,2000	35185	33732	35242	104159	10886	10886	* Despite a bar code wand failure we have a brand New 4 hour record!
8.5 Aug. 8,2000	40165	38076	38704	116945	12786	23672	* Brand new full day record! Brand new 4 hour record!
9.0 Aug. 9,2000	43168	41079	41707	125954	9009	9009	* Communication error temporarily halted processing
9.5 Aug. 9,2000	44402	42210	43494	130106	4152	13161	* Networking equipment hardware failed (Terminal Server) = 2 hours down time. Replacement terminal server coming via overnight shipment.
9.9 Aug. 9,2000	44402	43145	43630	131177	1071	14232	* ME Load Balance/Sync Project
10.0 Aug. 10,2000	47136	45899	46221	139256	8079	8079	* 1 crane down for 10-15 minutes and we minimized bin loaders as we still have not been able to replace the terminal server. Airborne still has not delivered the part to Terry at the campus Boiler Plant.
10.5 Aug. 10,2000	50282	48940	49770	148992	9736	17815	* We minimized bin loaders as we still have not been able to replace the terminal server. It seems Airborne mis-delivered the part to the wrong location on campus. We will look to install this part tomorrow if we are able to locate the part on campus.
11.0 Aug. 11,2000	52750	51855	49794	154399	5407	5407	* A "finger sensor" was crushed by the crane on aisle 3. Lack of this crane will likely decrease productivity by 33%. Hoping for delivery of replacement parts Saturday morning.
11.5 Aug. 11,2000	54956	53645	49794	158395	3996	9403	* Aisle 2 needs tick adjustments for loaded bins being stored. * A "finger sensor" was crushed by the crane on aisle 3 bringing aisle 3 down all day. * Aisle 1 and 2 needed a sequence of 15" bins to be locks to get around a bug in bin acquisition priority. (3 may need this too, but it was down today waiting for a "finger sensor" to be sent via Fed Ex after being ordered today.) * Double-scans are slowing our processing.
12.0 Aug. 12,2000	57420	55591	49866	162877	4482	4482	* Aisle 2 came back on line at 8:40 after 2 bins' tick locations needed updates from Terry. * Fed Ex delivered us our part to the right location! Terry replaced the part for the crane on aisle 3, configured it, tested it, and brought the crane on aisle 3 back on line by 11:00am!
12.5 Aug. 12,2000	59989	57525	51614	169128	6251	10733	* Our processing by volume (number of crates) was faster than the movers could deliver them to us during one point in the day! (First time for this!) * No serious problems today * Count of items is smaller only because items are heavy and large causing us to become bogged down in dealing with bins, and crates as well as moving heavier books. * All cranes operational for the afternoon shift.
13.0 Aug. 13,2000	59989	57525	51614	169128	-	-	* No processing: Day off
13.5 Aug. 13,2000	59989	57525	51614	169128	-	-	* No processing: Day off
14.0 Aug. 14,2000	61787	59526	53689	175002	5874	5874	-
14.5 Aug. 14,2000	64187	61987	56211	182385	7383	13257	-
14.9 Aug. 14,2000	64187	62867	57217	185071	2686	15943	* Movers offered an extra 1.75 hours of loading in the ARS with a smaller crew. This is in addition to the two 4 hour shifts.
15.0 Aug. 15,2000	67115	65239	59089	191443	6372	6372	-
15.5 Aug. 15,2000	69692	66861	62074	198627	7184	13556	* A bin would not return to the racks space at 3:45. This created delays and forced us to close a workstation.
15.9 Aug. 15,2000	71052	67391	63417	201860	3233	16789	* Movers offered an extra 1.75 hours of loading in the ARS with a smaller crew. This is in addition to the two 4 hour shifts.
16.0 Aug. 16,2000	73601	69391	65613	208605	6745	6745	* Double-scan of bar codes are slowing the load of the ARS. (Some items are not in the ARS database, and the first scan requests the item from III's database, and the second scan adds it to the ARS,)
16.5 Aug. 16,2000	75122	70802	67832	213756	5151	11896	* Double-scan of bar codes are slowing the load of the ARS. (Some items are not in the ARS database, and the first scan requests the item from III's database, and the second scan adds it to the ARS,)
16.9 Aug. 16,2000	76223	71433	68233	215889	2133	14029	* Movers offered an extra 1.75 hours of loading in the ARS with a smaller crew. This is in addition to the two 4 hour shifts.
17.0 Aug. 17,2000	78260	72849	69635	220744	4855	4855	* Double-scan of bar codes are slowing the load of the ARS. (Some items are not in the ARS database, and the first scan requests the item from III's database, and the second scan adds it to the ARS,)
17.5 Aug. 17,2000	80162	74277	70971	225410	4666	9521	* Double-scan of bar codes are slowing the load of the ARS. (Some items are not in the ARS database, and the first scan requests the item from III's database, and the second scan adds it to the ARS,)
17.9 Aug. 17,2000	80572	74469	71385	226426	1016	10537	* Movers offered an extra 0.75 hours of loading in the ARS with a smaller crew. This is in addition to the two 4 hour shifts.
18.0 Aug. 18,2000	80902	74469	71812	227183	757	757	* This number is misleading: Large boxes were loaded into bins. Some of these boxes had to be emptied before the contents could be loaded, and other boxes were stored as single items as the boxes were bar coded.
18.5 Aug. 18,2000	81080	74469	71930	227479	296	1053	* The numbers for today are misleading: Large boxes of stuff were stored in bins. The boxes had bar codes. About 500 boxes were places into the ARS with bar codes. These are high volume items, but equate to small item counts. * Afternoon processing only proceeded for about 1.7 hours.
19.0 Aug. 19,2000	81080	74469	71930	227479	-	-	* We thought we were done with the ARS load yesterday, but a few thousand more items were found for ARS storage. I will come in to work with the loaders for this "last" new batch of items in the afternoon. * No processing during the morning shift today.
19.5 Aug. 19,2000	tba	tba	tba	tba	tba	tba	* A 2.2 hour session was used to finish loading of a few extra books that were found for the ARS.

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