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CORE VALUE: CUSTOMER FIRST
Using the Flintstones was just
a small way to inject humor into an otherwise frustrating situation. At the end of the day, you have to remember to have fun in what you’re doing—otherwise all you’re doing is work.
– Chris Mata, sales engineer, SITECH
each payload scale. “You can guess and get close to a ton for each bucket load, but it’s not very accurate when you’re guessing on a variable material like burnt ash and debris,” says Mata. “But no matter what position the bucket was in or what machine we were test- ing, we knew exactly how much Fred weighed—0.871 tons.” That is, until he started losing weight.
“We didn’t have an easy way to set Fred down, so he started losing a lit- tle bit of weight from being dropped,” explains Mata. “Nothing too dramatic, maybe twenty pounds. But it affected our accuracy. Fred is a petrified rock, and even petrified rocks crack and
Top to bottom: Fred’s new and improved partner, Wilma, weighs exactly one ton; Daniel DeSimone, here with Wilma, was part of the SITECH team helping Argonaut with their payload scale systems
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