[TheForge] Fw: Stonehenge

[David E. Smucker]

For innovation to work it requires the freedom to think about things in 
somewhat new ways.  I am always reminded about this when I think about a 
young engineering asking me over a beer in a small German hotel why we 
couldn't move a fully assembled 400 ton rolling mill stand.  I replied "I 
don't know lets see how it might be possible."  It in fact it had never been 
done before -- rolling mills were always assembled in place one major piece 
at a time and then all of the piping and electrical installed.  We found 
that we could do this using a hydraulic lifting system and move 5 stands of 
a hot mill this way.  Tore out the old mill and moved the new one into 
place, tested and started up in 45 days 10 and 1/2 hours.  By normal means 
it would have been 100 days plus.  Big savings -- just by saying "I don't 
know, rather than it has never been done, or it can't be done.

Dave

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From: "Ron Swisher" <rwswisher at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:47 AM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] stonehenge

> I agree Bruce. Innovation and art seem to occur because of intuition that
> comes from where; we do not know.  But discursive (linear) and outside the
> box thinking seem to also be required to generate the spark.  Another
> essential component is one's capacity to experience of the joy of play.
> None of this, however, guarantees a "successful" result.  It ain't easy 
> but
> it needs to be fun!  Some "good genes" doesn't hurt either.
>
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