#Boiler Changeovers

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Synopsis: You have a type, one that has been forcefully revealed by your crewmen's incessant nagging. After being ordered to return to your workshop to receive further instruction, you become fully aware of why you have been hidden away from meeting with the captain of the Victoria Punk. He was exactly your type.

Notes: This is my first time writing for Eustass Kid. It was meant to be a one-shot, but it quickly got out of hand very fast. Looks like a two or three parter. afab!reader - but can be read as gn.

Themes: senseless flirting, mature themes, NSFW language, choking, vulgarity, promiscuity, shamelessness, heart-pirate!reader x captain!Eustass Kid, this reader is a perpetual and shameless flirt, heart pirates x reader, partial zoro x reader, platonic law x reader.

Tag List: @sordidmusings @feral-artistry @writingmysanity @gingernut1314 @cinnbar-bun @since-im-already-here

Song Suggestion: It's Cuffing Season - Dj Rehan, JW Velly

Within the rotund chasm of the crew dining quarters rung a loud and rambunctious melody. The sway of your hips and the lyrics falling from your smiling lips alongside Shachi and Penguin had the mood of the hour joyful and merry. The speakers ignited with the crackle of the powerful ballad screaming over the powered mounted system bordering the ceiling. You swayed your body with Ikkaku’s, your lips relaying the lyrics to the rambunctious melody with a suggestive smile, a smile mirrored by her own elevating to her lips.

These were the cool-down hours: where the Heart-Pirate crew were able to complete tasks they had set aside, or wind down after a hard day's work of following Captain Law’s orders aboard the Polar Tang. Despite his tired and lackluster expression constantly painted across his exhausted face, your captain, Trafalgar D Water-Law, encouraged his entire crew to engage in some lesser restraint as they quiet down before the changeover in shift. 

Law was yet to join in on the celebrations, opting to remain behind in his office for reasons you were yet to become privy to. Although he never allowed himself to truly let go and sway his hips, cry tactless lyrics into the air; he truly enjoyed witnessing the crew join together like this. There were only a few songs he would ever mutter the lyrics along to, most of which were harder in musicality, angst-driven in their choruses, and distorted in tonality. Yet, he would always have a soft smile elevated on his lips when the few of you would gyrate, sway, sing and scream alongside the music over the speakers. 

As Shachi drew a stainless steel whisk up to his lips and began to shout the lyrics into the crossed tip, the music cut out from its place within the electrical power system. In its stead, Captain Trafalgar Law’s voice dictated a few short and curt orders. 

“All hands above deck. Repeat, all hands to the deck. Prepare the Polar Tang to be boarded for a Nakama encounter,” you snapped to the direction of the speaker, Ikkaku’s dancing movements halting beside yours as you listened for further instruction over the system. As no further orders fell from the mechanical mesh, you readjusted your fallen zipper of your white, boiler jumpsuit and spring into action.

“Ohh, a crew boarding? I hope it’s the Straw-Hats! I want to see that little reindeer again,” Bepo noted politely, the thump of his heavy feet stomping along the iron floor beside your smaller steps almost comical. 

“Oh, the crew with the green-haired swordsman coming aboard again?” You asked him, brow quirking and smirk rising at the corner of your lips. Ikkaku laughed at your comment, clapping you on the shoulder and walking with Shachi and Penguin in tow behind you. 

“The one that was almost your type?” Ikkaku’s smile quirked up at Shachi’s question, his arm hooking over your neck as he spoke down into your ear. 

“But not quite, remember?” You giggled at him, playfully extending the sharp secondary knuckle of your index finger into his ribcage, his breath huffing out a hasty exhale at the jolt. Ikkaku and Penguin laughed at Shachi’s wince of pain, his laughter also rising with his crewmates’ and your own. 

Amongst the Heart-Pirates, the crew were not unaccustomed to your unrestrained flirting with them. From your close proximity, to the brush of your fingertips, to a warm embrace offered from your arms, to you lounging against them in the quiet hours. But most of all, your vulgar and unwithheld language going far enough to make the most hardened members of the Heart-Pirates’ cheeks tint crimson. 

It was a game to you, keeping things lively and interesting aboard your ship as you served alongside them as Law’s chief tinkerer. Nothing ever came of the suggestive conversations and provocative language you offered aside from a friendly kiss, alongside the words, “Sorry, love. You’re not my type.” 

As your feet met with the grated bars of the steel steps leading to the deck, Law’s voice cut over the speakers once more to address the crew.

“All hands to the deck, aside from my tinkerer. Go to your workshop and await further instruction,” the distorted crack of his voice did very little to mask the disdain in his voice. There was something bothering your captain - such a bother depicted in his bored and aloof tone. The harbor which anchored such a dirge-like expression which you had very little explanation for. That was, until, the snickering beside you hissed through the smiling teeth of the three human crew members beside you. 

“What’s so funny?” you spat, shimmying from the crook of Shachi’s arm and facing the four of them with your hands on your hips. 

“Oh, nothing,” Ikkaku giggled before sucking her lips into her mouth to stifle more of her laughter from freely falling from between them. You glanced between the other three, all raising their hands in defense to your pointed gaze. 

“Alright, keep your damn secrets to yourselves,” you scoffed, turning your nose up in the air at them before snuggling into Bepo, who eagerly returned your brief embrace, “I’ll see you after the Nakama meet up, I suppose.” They bid their farewells to you, snickering and giggling as they exited the iron hatch of the Polar Tang to rise above decks. 

After sculking the halls down the long and lonely corridors to your office, you were shocked at the sight greeting you upon opening the large door. Although he depicted further instruction was awaiting you, you were anticipating private instruction to be carried through your personal Den-Den-Mushi rather than meeting with your Captain himself. 

Captain Law was sitting at your desk, his ankles hooked on top of your workbench with his hands laced behind his head, cradling his neck. He lazily glanced through the corner of his eyes at you before slowly unlacing his ankles and rising to his feet. His fingertips clasped his impressive sword, the smoothness of his scabbard reflected in the dim light of your office. 

“To what do I owe the pleasure of your company, Cap? Shouldn’t you be-?” you began, your words halted immediately by Law’s response.

“-Cut the shit, Tink,” your titled nickname falling in lieu of your real name or formal title from Law’s lips. You relaxed your shoulder against the doorframe, folding your arms across your chest while pursing your lips. You tapped your index finger on your bicep while you awaited further direction from the man in front of you. 

With an exasperated sigh, he elevated his slender, tattooed, fingers to his brow and pinched the center between his index and thumb. He huffed a final growl before he bore his honeyed eyes into your awaiting features. 

“It seems I will be unable to keep you distracted for the entire time they’ll be here this time,” he muttered to himself in a voice almost impossible for you to catch. You furrowed your brows, opening your mouth to question him further. He halted your words by removing his fingers from his brow to face his palm out to you.

“I am going to say this one time, and one time only,” he continued to hold his intense and stern gaze into your eyes, “Don’t.” 

“‘Don’t’ what, Law? What are you talking about-?” you began, halted again by Law’s dictation once again.

“-Just...” Law turned his face slightly away from you, “...-Just don’t, okay? I know you, I know what you’re like, and I’m just letting you know now, and know once. Don’t.”

You were unable to form an adequate response before he stormed out of your workshop and wordlessly gestured for you to follow behind him above deck with his index finger, a hooked motion calling to you. Your captain’s words swirled in your head, your eyes locking on to his neck and tracing his skin with your inquisitive gaze. 

-

Your relationship with your captain was as close a friendship as you could ever muster with such a person. He sought out your skills as a tinkerer, your reputation preceding you when you demonstrated your skilled hands to him. You both bonded over unique collections, his coins and comics, your rocks and pinned insect and arachnid display. Both having a unique place to relay information about your special and unique interests with one another was sacred, and so incredibly special to the both of you.

Where Law and you differed was in how you chose to display your humors: Law holding his hand close to his chest before he truly displays how unhinged his humor was with dark commentary, whereas you were a perpetual flirt with provocative language and sultry advances. You both held each other in a professional standing, before your words took a turn for requited flirtation. Law would reciprocate your vulgarity, and you would mirror back that darkness he expressed, if ever your conversations became flirtatious and humorous with him. 

And that is where, like the others, you ended the flirtatious rapport with a simple utterance of: “Forgive me, Cap. You’re not my type,” which threw the captain and crew into an uproar of outrageous laughter. Speculating on what exactly your type was, you finally gave into their incessant interrogation after being offered your fifth drink for the evening from the hands of Shachi. 

“Fine,” you spat, your arm swaying as you handled your filled pint, “I like them big. And I truly mean big. Like, throw me over the shoulder big. Like, ‘will it fit’ big. Especially if they’ve got that feral twinkle in their eyes that looks at you like they’d want to kill you,” you confessed, your voice swooning at the thought. After taking a heaping gulp from your drink, you added, “You’re all very beautiful, handsome, and spectacular. But, I just need someone who looks like they could lovingly and desperately break me in half. Bonus points if they’re good with machines, so we can bond.”

After coming down from your whimsical confession, you glanced at the crew. Bepo’s ears were covered by both Shachi and Penguin’s hands - all three of their jaws comically slackened. Law’s teeth were clenched in an awkward, cringe-like, straightened smile with lazy, half-hooded eyes. Ikkaku’s cheeks were tinted red with the elevated hue of rushed blood, her lips broken into a wide grin with her eyes twinkling at the confession. 

All of these things were true. You were a person of refined taste, a taste which seemed scarce to come by with the crew you had found yourself working beside. There was Jean Bart, but he was not overly interested in tending to a relationship with you. There was Uni, but your interests fell short when he only depicted gentleness and kindness towards you in lieu of your craving for something more brutal. 

Both men remained high spirited and friendly with you despite your attempt at a fling with them falling through. You needed something more. Something more unhinged. Something a little unpredictable, feral and dangerous. 

-

As Law led you above deck, the voice of Jean Bart called for all crew to fall in line to welcome the Nakama crew above deck. Without looking up, you hastily drew yourself between Penguin and Ikkaku, Shachi on the other side of Penguin and Bepo beside Ikkaku as you all stood alert with your arms by your sides.

“At ease, Heart-Pirates,” Law commanded, shooting you one more pointed and narrow-eyed look before turning back to speak with the foreign captains and their crews. It seemed two crews had joined the deck of the Polar Tang: The Straw-Hat Pirates alongside another crew you did not recognise. You quickly examined the First-Mate of the Straw-Hat crew, who met your eyes with a small smirk before returning back to fix his gaze on his captain alongside his crew. 

Zoro was almost your type. A night you shared with one another, being evidence enough to your crew, that you had nearly found someone you deemed feral and hulking enough to share in your company. When your lips met his: his actions were closer to timid and gentle as they joined with yours. The fires of passion were there, the small amount of danger also present, but he was still not your type. He was handsome, sure enough. He was aggressive, absolutely. He reciprocated your flirtations with a small elevation of flush tinting his cheeks a warm hue of pink, which you found endearing. 

The night concluded with a few deepened kisses, roaming touches from your hands holding each other firmly beneath the stars aboard the Sunny. However, nothing further ever came between the two of you. After that night, the you both remained quite good friends and shared in each other's company, with unhinged and illicit conversation, each time Law met with his captain. He kept pace with you when you drank, spurting dark vulgarity subtly into your ear at the dining table when your crews met; but it was all in good humor and never truly to initiate anything rising further between you. 

A small pull at the corner of your sleeve from Ikkaku broke you away from your reminiscing, your face turning to look at her with your brows knitting in confusion. Her lips were sucked into her mouth, her eyes wide in excitement as she bore her gaze directly ahead. 

“What’s wrong with you?” your hushed whisper growled at her. She removed her grip on your sleeve and raised her hand to your chin, turning your head without pulling her eyes away from their fixed point in front of her. 

“This is who the Captain was keeping from you. Ever wonder why he’d been working you so hard when we meet up with certain crews? He’s why,” she muttered, her lips still sucked within her lips to stifle her rising joy. You allowed her to turn your jaw ahead, your eyes meeting with a hulking figure of a man with fiery red hair. 

Your jaw fell slack before your lips pulled up into a broad smile as your eyes fixed themselves on him. He was intimidating, he was hulking, and he was big. Your eyes shamelessly raked themselves over his body, halting on his calves, his thighs, his ass, his arm, his metal arm, his broad chest, his grimace, his makeup, his blaster goggles hoisting his untamed locks away from his face-. 

-You hastily drew your eyes back to his left arm, metal in make and incredibly large. It looked heavy, intricate, and mechanical. Your interest deepened at each sway of his arms, flex of his muscles and wind of cogs and bolts within his intricate piece attached to his severed limb. Starstruck, captivated, and interest immediately peaked; you continued to rake your eyes over this foreign man aboard the Polar Tang. 

“O-Oh? Oh m-my-...” you couldn’t find the words to form a cohesive string of sentences, your eyes fixed on his arm as you studied it. His mechanical fingertips were clenching, his grimace splitting his scarred face, and his hair bobbing beneath blaster goggles each time he opened his mouth to speak. 

“I know, right? Law has been trying so desperately to keep you from meeting him,” Ikkaku added, prompting you to hum deeply in interest with your tongue darting out to dampen your bottom lip. 

“That’s your type, then?” Penguin and Shachi uttered in unison, their downturned smiles through gritted teeth cringing through the question. 

“That’s-,” you took a moment to collect your thoughts, swallowing a lump of dry saliva within your mouth, ”-Exactly, my type,” you gasped, nodding as you spoke aloud. 

“And this is why each time we see the Victoria Punk, we have to keep you below deck and distracted,” Ikkaku managed to stutter out through her giggles. You quickly snapped your eyes back to her, your gaze narrowed and accusatory.

“We’ve had him,” you snapped your eyes away from the hulking gentleman to stare at Ikkaku, “On the Polar Tang more than once?” You snapped your eyes from Ikkaku to turn to Penguin on your other side, “And you managed to keep me distracted?” you uttered through gritted teeth. Ikkaku shrugged her shoulders, puffing out her cheeks to halt an uproar of laughter from falling from her lips. 

“Captain’s orders,” Shachi confirmed with a curt nod, stooping out from falling in line to meet his spectacle-covered eyes with yours, “He knows what you’re like, and how you’d react.” He stepped back in line and grunted out a soft cough to clear his throat. 

You turned your eyes back to the redhead, quickly looking over his hulking crew before hardening your resolve and humming deeply. 

“I am-...” you began, raking your eyes back over his body again, “...-I am going to climb him like a tree.” 

Snickers began to fall through the nose of Ikkaku, a small giggle elevating in Penguin’s chest, a huff of air snorting through Shachi’s nose.

“I gotta know what that hand does,” you confessed, your eyes full of wonderment and your tone full of longing desire, “What it feels like. Is it smooth? Does it have different settings? Is it cold? Can he control the pressure? I have to know, for science. I want him-...” you trailed off before dreamily adding: “...-To choke me.” 

More laughter and teeters from your friends around you threatened to break through the seal of their clenched lips, Penguin raising his palm to halt his laughter. 

“Look at his eyes. He’s got so much pent up hate in that twinkle,” you continued, a whimsical sigh exiting your lips, “I hope he’s the type that scowls into your face while he fucks you hard. Or maybe he’s the type to bend you over a desk while he frantically rams himself into you.” 

Ikkaku’s higher pitched whimpered laughter almost broke through her lips, elevating both her hands to clench over the bottom half of her face to stifle her laughter. Penguin was not faring much better, his teeters boiling close to breaking point. Shachi pulled his hat over his eyes in an effort to hide his blush.

“I wonder if all of him is as big, hard and angry as the rest of him,” you hummed, deep in thought. A choked snort threatened to break through Shachi’s nose, Ikkaku held her breath while Penguin cringed behind his palm. 

Zoro immediately drew his eye away from his captain and examined the five of you all huddled together in a line. He focussed on your lips moving, reading the unhinged commentary you were entertaining your crewmen with: noticing your gaze was fixed on Eustass Kid. His smirk immediately broke up his lips, his eyes closing as he huffed out a subtle laugh he disguised with a cough. 

“And the scars. Are they sensitive? I wonder if he’d writhe when I lick them,” you spoke with wonderment, “How far do they go down? Is it just his face, neck, arm, and chest - or do they go all the way down his body? I would happily lick, kiss and suck my way down while mapping his flesh beneath my lips. Oooh, I wonder if he’s ticklish.” 

Zoro’s gaze was now fully fixed on your lips, relaying every word of your hushed conversation lowly to Nami standing beside him. She began holding in her own laughter, choking back stifled whimpers while hearing the repetition of your vulgarity from the first-mate beside her. Nami was also a crewmate you enjoyed spending time with when the Nakama meetings drew the Straw-Hats and Heart-Pirate crews together, appreciating how effortlessly you relayed your desires and flirtations to your crewmen. 

“And his face paint. Does it smear when it's coated in sweat and saliva? His face looks like a comfortable place to sit,” you raked your eyes over his face, focussing on his grimacing lips, “He looks like he’d be an aggressive kisser. I wonder if he bites when he eats pu-.”

That was the comment that broke the seal, the three companions by your side finally breaking into an uproar of laughter. The three crews and their captains snapped their attention over to you. You held a look of absolute innocence, your eyes finally meeting with the intimidating presence of the feral, redheaded captain. 

His intense rage directed at you had you swooning, your knees buckling and your breath sighing at him. Heat flushed your cheeks the longer your eyes were locked with his. The flutter of your heartbeat and deep sigh departing from your lips perplexed him, depicted by the rage-riddled confusion knitting his brows together deeper.

Without warning with a few quick strides, your captain strutted over to your position among your crewmates.

“Tinkerer,” he spat, your body doing little to hide your longing as you desperately attempted to look behind Trafalgar Law to return your gaze to the Nakama behind you, “I said don’t.” 

“Sorry, sir,” you apologized sincerely, snapping your eyes up to his intense gaze,and assuming a more formal position. Your hands were clasped behind your back, your chin elevated in the air and your expression hardened and practiced.

“I just-...” he growled, his eyes clamping shut tightly before reopening, “...It was a suggestion, Tink. Not an order.” He straightened his posture, swirling his neck to relieve it of tension, “At ease, but keep it quiet. Alright?”

“In that case, Cap,” you smiled, relaxing in your stature and beaming a brilliant smile up at him with a shrug, “I am going to test out how loud I can make him roar my name while he fills me full of his hot, sticky cu-.”

“-TINK!” Law scolded you with an exasperated growl, the remainder of the Heart-Pirates bursting into a large, unbridled gaggle of laughter. 

Far enough away to not hear the conversation Law was holding with you, Zoro’s smirk cut his face wider at Law’s roar. A low, rumbled chuckle shook Zoro’s shoulders, alerting Luffy and Eustass Kid of his amusement. 

“The fuck is wrong with you?” Kid’s voice cracked through the air, causing Zoro’s chuckle to halt but his amusement remained. 

“Go ask Cap’n Law’s crew,” Zoro suggested nonchalantly with a shrug. Luffy quirked his head to the side, his wide eyes holding mild curiosity. Nami clapped her hands over her lips and shook her head, while Robin’s knowing smile drew itself up to decorate her face with her humor. 

“Why would I do that?” Kid growled, turning his intense auburn eyes back to the scene befaling Law and his crew. Law turned back to the two captains, a rise of a pink hue dusting his cheeks as he fixed his hat atop his head. 

Behind the tattooed captain, you stood with your brow raised and following your captain’s retreat. He examined you briefly, noting you were holding a hushed conversation with your crewmates behind your captain’s back that had a blush rise to their cheeks, lips curling up into broad smiles, and shoulders quaking in laughter. You were confident, that much was sure. 

As Kid met his eyes with yours, he saw your cocky smirk and half-lidded eyes glancing at him with a beckoning taunt. He watched as you shamelessly raked your eyes over his body, pausing on a few key areas and your lips moving with a smile as you spoke. 

Kid immediately rose to your challenge, striding immediately over with haste and brushing his shoulder heavily past Law’s - who was too late to halt the meeting of an impossible force colliding with an immovable object. Law held out his arm in warning, an action falling short as the hulking figure covered your body in the shroud of his shadow. His presence sucked the very breath from your body, his intense, piercing gaze burned you as you gazed into them. Lips curling back into a snarl, he scrunched his nose alongside his brows. 

“The fuck are you all laughing at?” He roared, his hard gaze stealing the air from within your lungs. He was even more spectacular at his closer proximity, holding you briefly starstruck under his dangerous aura. 

“Aww, nothing to say? Something clamping down on your tongue to keep it from moving?” he grimaced his lips up into a cruel snarl. At his taunt, your brief awestruck expression was replaced with a channel for your vulgarity.

“Why, are you offering?” You bite back, your eyes dark with their challenge, “I bet you have an array of things you could use to keep my tongue occupied.” His eyes widened, his grimace falling a little at your words.

“Come again?” He asked, hunching over to draw his face close to yours. He bore his teeth at you, his shock written all over his face. 

“I hope so, Sir,” you smile dreamily up at him, “As many times as you can handle it.” 

Your crewmen beside you sucked in whimpered breaths, hoping and praying the larger man at least found humor in your comments if not anything else. You continued to hold your half-lidded eyes, glazed over with unwithheld lust and need meeting with his wide eyes, pupils shrunk small and expression angry.

“What the fuck did you just say?” he spat, his brows creasing in the middle of his forehead as his scowl returned, “I should gag, choke and flog you for that.”

“And I would say ‘thank you’, Sir,” you hummed in affirmation, stepping your body closer to his towering form. Reactionary, he stepped further towards you, completely ignoring your crewmates beside you witnessing your interaction. You could feel the waves of tension elevating and igniting fury beneath his hulking form. 

“If this is your way of pissing me off,” he snarled, the rumble of his voice echoing within his chest shot a delightful shiver to your spine, “Believe me, it’s fuckin’ working, Sunshine.” 

Your heart swelled at his bestowment of such a sweet title onto you, your comrades in arms staring at you in horror as you swooned. Shachi and Penguin were rapidly shaking their heads from side to side in an attempt to warn you to cease your shameless advance of the foreign captain. Ikkaku stifled a smaller gasped whimper, while Bepo covered his ears. 

“So violent,” your voice shuddered in delight with an airy breathiness, “Don’t threaten me with a good time unless you intend on seeing it through, Sir.” 

Eustass Kid was stunned.

He had not received such provocative and forthcoming flirtation in this way before, and he truly had no idea if your crude words were just a depiction of your humor to entertain yourself, or if you truly meant what you were saying. If your expressions were just an act to draw a laugh from your crewmen, he no longer wanted to take part in engaging with you in this way. However, if you were truly interested in him - your shameless and tasteless salaciousness was indeed igniting something within the tinkerer-captain.

“You don’t even know who I am, Sunshine,” he informed you, drawing up his mechanical left hand and threatening to cage your neck within its cool, steely grip.

“Then educate me on the name I’ll be blissfully crying praises for, Sir,” you groaned, leaning your neck against the index finger of the mechanical contraption. 

“You got a lot of nerve to be talking shit about me in front everyone,” he pressed the heel of his metallic palm further into your flesh and curled the digits around your throat, “I’m not a fan of being the butt of some fucked up joke.”

“They’re not laughing at you, Sir. It’s ridicule at my expense,” you confessed, groaning at the feeling of cool metal pressing dangerously hard against your jugular, “They’re laughing at how much I want you, which I do. I really do, if you’re up to the task.” 

Kid’s breath was now taking its turn in being stolen from his lungs, your confession weighing as heavy on his heart as his mechanical arm was on his shoulder. He took a moment to process the words falling freely from your lips before he calculated an appropriate response. 

“The fuck did you just say-...?” Kid asked you quietly, his arm faltering its grip around your neck while his balled fist clenched tighter to stifle his rising anger. 

“You heard me,” you taunted him further, not tearing your eyes from his for even a moment. Your smile never faltered, your eyes displaying their unbridled lust and craving for him within your blackened pupils, “You don’t seem like the kind of guy that needs to be told twice.” 

“And what kind of guy do I look like to you?” he spat at you, wringing your neck between his steel fingers.

“A big one,” you gasped a whimpering moan, taking your bottom lip between your teeth as you felt every movement offered by the mechanical contraption. You would adore taking the time to study such a beautiful object in your workshop, but for now; your curiosity was satisfied by the feeling of the hulking larger man caging you beneath its cool grasp.

“You want me to show you how big I really am, Sunshine?” his face split into a broad grin, his brow creasing in the center to deepen his sinister expression, “At least you already know how to call me ‘Sir’.” 

Before you could utter another word, Law pulled the captain’s attention away from you with a grasp of his hand on his right forearm. Before he could squeeze his metal fingers around your neck further, he drew them away from your flesh as Captain Law interrupted your building tension.

“Captain Kid,” his stern voice cut through the air, the redhead’s eyes snapped over to meet with the yellow irises of your captain, “I apologize for my tinkerer’s obscenity. They know better,” he shot you a pointed look, one you returned with a stubborn huff of breath. “Tink, I warned you. You’re dismissed. Workshop, now.” 

“Aye-aye, Captain,” you spat, your heels clicking together as you saluted him with your index and middle finger. You marched yourself below decks, mentally scolding yourself on your shamelessness in front of someone who was finally your type. 

As the door closed behind you, Law released a breath he didn’t know he was withholding. As he opened his mouth to speak, Kid spoke over him.

“Did you say tinkerer, Traffy?” his eyes were still fixed on the door you just exited through, his voice almost soft in curiosity.

“That I did,” Law confessed with a huffed breath, “Let’s get back to our meeting so we can get this bullshit over with, yeah?” 

“Yeah…” Kid exhaled, turning back to meet his gaze with Luffy and his own crew. He spared one more glance over his shoulder towards the lower deck door of the Polar Tang. Curiosity had you plaguing his thoughts, swirling within every crevice of his mind as he attempted to engage in the fruitless Nakama meeting with the Heart, Kid and Straw-Hat pirate captains. 

Pausing just before joining up with Luffy, Kid turned once more to Law and grunted out a small cough. Law lazily turned his face over to him, angling his chin upwards to stare at the larger man. Kid’s cheeks dusted with a small tint of pink, elevating his right hand and pressing it against his lips while grunting through his next choice words. 

“They single?”

Law groaned, throwing his head back as he and Kid rejoined themselves next to Luffy to discuss the next aspect of their meeting: no words finding anchor within the Straw-Hat captain’s mind, as he was too busy contemplating when the next meal was to be presented. Will Sanji cook it? Will Kid’s crew, or Law’s provide it? Will it include meat? He hoped it would.

Part 2

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Vertical Turning Lathe and Vertical Turret Lathe: Mastering the Art of Precision Machining

Are you fascinated by the world of machining and metalworking? Do you wonder how large, intricate metal components are manufactured with exceptional precision? If so, you've likely come across the terms "Vertical Turning Lathe" (VTL) and "Vertical Turret Lathe" (VTL) in your exploration. In this article, we'll delve into the fascinating world of these two powerful machines, uncovering their unique features, applications, and the art of precision machining they master.

The Basics: What are Vertical Turning Lathes and Vertical Turret Lathes?

Imagine a giant, sophisticated lathe capable of rotating massive workpieces vertically instead of horizontally – that's the essence of a Vertical Turning Lathe. It operates like a traditional lathe but brings vertical orientation, allowing for easier handling of significant, heavy components.

On the other hand, the Vertical Turret Lathe, often abbreviated as VTL, is a subtype of VTL. It features a versatile and powerful turret on its vertical axis, equipped with multiple cutting tools. This turret design grants it exceptional agility, enabling a wide range of cutting operations without the need for tool changes.

Unravelling the Differences:

At first glance, the terms "Vertical Turning Lathe" and "Vertical Turret Lathe" might seem interchangeable, but they possess distinct characteristics that set them apart.

Vertical Turning Lathe (VTL):

Primarily designed for heavy-duty, high-capacity workpieces.

Rotates the workpiece vertically for improved stability and ease of loading/unloading.

Well-suited for turning, boring, facing, and tapering significant cylindrical components.

Offers exceptional rigidity and vibration damping, ensuring precision machining.

Vertical Turret Lathe (VTL):

A subtype of VTL with a versatile turret on the vertical axis.

Allows multiple cutting tools on the turret, reducing tool changeover time.

Ideal for complex and diverse machining operations on medium-sized components.

Offers faster production cycles and enhanced efficiency due to the turret's capabilities.

Applications:

The versatility and precision offered by these machines make them indispensable in various industries:

Vertical Turning Lathe:

Aerospace: Machining landing gear components, engine casings, and turbine discs.

Power Generation: Manufacturing turbine rotors, generator shafts, and boiler parts.

Oil & Gas: Crafting valves, flanges, and drilling rig components.

Vertical Turret Lathe:

Automotive: Producing transmission components, brake drums, and axle hubs.

General Engineering: Machining gears, pulleys, and hydraulic fittings.

Railway: Fabricating train wheels, axles, and couplers.

Advantages of Using Vertical Turning Lathe and Vertical Turret Lathe

Vertical Turning Lathe:

Capable of handling heavy and large components, reducing the need for multiple setups.

Enhanced stability during machining, ensuring superior precision and surface finish.

Suitable for both symmetrical and asymmetrical workpieces.

Vertical Turret Lathe:

Versatile turret design enables multi-tool operations without interruptions.

High productivity and reduced cycle times due to efficient tool changes.

Ideal for complex and precise machining tasks.

The Future of Precision Machining with Vertical Lathes

In conclusion, the world of machining owes much of its precision and efficiency to the remarkable Vertical Turning Lathe and Vertical Turret Lathe. Whether it's crafting critical parts for aerospace, power generation, or automotive industries, these vertical lathes play a pivotal role in shaping our modern world. WIDMA is one of the leading players in the market. So, the next time you need a machine for precision purposes or any such machining needs, connect with WIDMA. 

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How steam heat was enlisted to fight the Spanish Flu, and ended up overheating your apartment https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curious-history-of-steam-heat-and-pandemics via @citylab

Health officials thought (correctly) that fresh air would ward off airborne diseases; then as now, cities rushed to move activities outdoors, from schools to courtrooms. When winter came, the need for fresh air didn’t abate. According to Holohan’s research, the Board of Health in New York City ordered that windows should remain open to provide ventilation, even in cold weather. In response, engineers began devising heating systems with this extreme use case in mind. Steam heating and radiators were designed to heat buildings on the coldest day of the year with all the windows open. Anybody who’s thrown their windows open in January, when their apartment is stifling, is, in an odd way, replicating what engineers hoped would happen a century ago. 

Leeds claimed that the “spent breath” of the occupants of poorly ventilated homes contributed to 40% of the deaths in the country.

The memories of the flu pandemic lingered. Engineering books from the 1920s often mentioned this need to design heating systems, notably the boilers and radiators, to operate with all windows open, a requirement of the “fresh air movement,” Holohan says. This health crusade, which has its roots in the post-Civil War era, saw fresh air as a necessity for good health; adherents believed that rooms with closed windows and tight airflow meant that others would breathe in your vapors and catch disease. The theory originated before modern germ theory, at a time when tuberculosis was a significant health threat. “They called unventilated air the ‘national poison,’” Holohan says.  A key proponent of the idea was Lewis Leeds, a health inspector for Union Army field hospitals who came to the conclusion that “vitiated,” or spoiled, air was the cause of the many diseases. The “spent breath” of the occupants of poorly ventilated homes contributed to 40% of the deaths in the country, he claimed, and often said “man’s own breath is his greatest enemy.” He would spend decades promoting the cause, designing ventilation schemes for buildings, penning a 1869 book, Leeds on Ventilation, and lecturing across the country. He explained his ideas with the aid of a “magic lantern” projector — think old-timey Powerpoint presentations. He’d show slides of a family in their drawing room, then add a slide showing red air coming out of the father’s mouth. The child crawling on the floor would eventually fall over. It “scared people to death,” Holohan says. 

Leeds was joined in his fervent ventilation campaign by author Harriet Beecher Stowe, of Uncle Tom’s Cabin fame. With her sister, Catherine, Stowe would coauthor a 1869 book, The American Woman’s Home, that claimed “tight sleeping-rooms, and close, air-tight stoves, are now starving and poisoning more than one half of this nation.” It also introduced terrifying scenarios to shock American readers into action, such as this passage about the impact of vitiated air on a child: 

Little Jim, who, fresh from his afternoon’s ramble in the fields, last evening said his prayers dutifully, and lay down to sleep in a most Christian frame, this morning sits up in bed with his hair bristling with crossness, strikes at his nurse, and declares he won't say his prayers—that he don't want to be good. The simple difference is, that the child, having slept in a close box of a room, his brain all night fed by poison, is in a mild state of moral insanity. 

These ideas would become more formally accepted by architects and engineers during the beginning years of the 20th century. The 1901 New York State Tenement House Act mandated that every room have an outdoor facing window. New York City Health Commissioner Royal Copeland, who, as a U.S. senator in the 1920s proposed redesigning the Senate Chamber to deal with deadly, stale air, would praise the tenement laws as having a significant impact during the flu pandemic. 

By the time the Spanish Flu hit, the maxims of the fresh air movement had become popular enough to impact building designs. The toll of the pandemic solidified this thinking, says Holohan. Having robust steam boilers that could keep apartments and dwellings comfortable with open windows became standard in New York City, as well as other northern cities in cold climates, such as Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Boston and Philadelphia.

The pandemic abated in 1920 but these standards had become locked into place. The architecture firm KPF found that>nearly 75% of Manhattan’s existing square footage was built between 1900 and 1930. And since steam heat systems are incredibly durable, they’ve lasted for generations.  

In the ensuing decades, shifts in building practice and fuel usage made the problem of over-indexed steam heat worse. The type of fuel used to heat the steam boilers changed, from coal to heating oil to natural gas, and during the changeover, Holohan says, they didn’t properly resize boilers or systematically change design standards to account for the changing power source; replacement boilers were kept big to err on the side of caution. Better windows, especially double-pane varieties, would provide the benefit of better insulation and less heat loss, but only served to lock in the impact of overly aggressive radiators. (If you own an old radiator-equipped house, you might have noticed how overpoweringly effective they can be after you replace leaky older windows with more well-insulated modern replacements.) 

By the 1930s, Holohan says, a few common remedies to mitigate excessive radiator heat came into practice that last to this day. Researchers at the National Bureau of Standards found that if radiators were painted with a special kind of bronzing paint — specifically, the silver tone found in many radiators today — it would reduce some of the heat transfer. Same goes with “radiator cozies,” knitted covers sometimes placed over the ribs of radiator pipes. They have the added benefit of protecting kids from getting burned, but one reason they became commonplace was as a way to blunt excess heat. 

Roughly 80%  of residential buildings in NYC are still heated by steam, and surveys with tenants found that 70 % are chronically overheated in winter, according to Demystifying Steam, a 2019 report by the Urban Green Council. The durability of steam “has locked into place technical limitations of a century ago, ” the report noted; their role as disease-fighters forgotten, radiators are now seen as energy-sucking dinosaurs. “Many tenants open windows for relief, even on the coldest days,” the report found, “but steam systems are so unbalanced that other residents in these same buildings don’t receive enough heat.”

Steam’s grip on the city’s building stock has made the challenge of meeting environmental goals much harder, in effect overheating more than merely the buildings in which they operate. According to John Mandyck, CEO of the Urban Green Council, 70% of the climate emissions in New York City are generated by buildings, with the biggest share from the fossil fuels used for heat and hot water in large, multifamily buildings.

Steam might get a bad rap now, but Holohan notes that its inefficiencies can be traced to poor maintenance and long out-of-date building codes. (It’s not supposed to clank either.) “The banging and clanging wasn’t normal,” he says. “Steam heat was fast and silent when it was first installed. When it’s properly tended, it can be an efficient way to heat. Most people just don’t know how to do it right.” 

As a Covid-haunted winter looms, residents of steam-heated buildings may get another opportunity to crank their radiators up and put them to their intended use. Holohan says he’s bemused to see his field of expertise reemerge in connection with the current pandemic, as ventilation is being again promoted as a key strategy to cut infection. 

“I’ve been talking about this for like 30 years or more,” he says. “And suddenly I’m living it.” 

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Choosing a perfect Sight Flow Indicator in India

Sight glasses are vital tools in the chemical and petrochemical industries for inspecting the interior of storage tanks and measuring the volume of media in pipes.

In this post, we'll take a look at sight glasses, a specialist instrument utilised in many different processing industries, such as wastewater management, food and beverage, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, wastewater treatment, energy, utility, as well as oil and gas sectors.

Sight glasses are installed in a wide range of gas and fluid handling pipes, tanks, and vessels across different industries. Sight Glass:

Sight glasses, also known as sight windows or viewports, allow observers to look inside a process tank or a pipe.

Sight glasses manufactured by the most prominent manufacturer and supplier of sight flow indicator in India - Noble Glass Works are used by workers in the processing facility to:

●  Visually confirming the many steps of production.

●  Keep an eye out for any colour or consistency changes in the media or fluids you're working with.

●  Keep an eye on the liquid levels in a tank.

Sight flow indicators, commonly known as sight glass tubes, are a particular sort of sight glass. In order to visually confirm the flow rate as well as the flow direction of fluids, as well as inspect products or media going through process lines, transparent tubes called sight flow indicators are inserted in pipes.

Glasses to improve one's vision have a long history of use in business. When steam-powered locomotives first appeared, sight glass was first used as the water level gauges in the boiler systems to guarantee that the water was always at the correct level for safe operation.

Sight glasses or Sight Flow Indicators supplied by the most remarkable and distinguished Sight Glass supplier in Vadodara have two main applications in the sanitary products processing industries.

●     Sight glasses are used in the biopharmaceutical business for checking the progress of fermentation in tanks and vessels.

●     Sight glasses are commonly used in the food and beverage processing sector for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to confirming a changeover that is known to have occurred in a process, inspecting fluids and slurries for defects, and checking product clarity and cleanliness.

Types:

Sight glasses of the window or port variety come in two main varieties.

●     A common type of sight glass for windows is a flat piece of glass that is held in place by two metal rings that are sealed with gaskets. This sight glass design is ideal for low-pressure, non-critical applications since it can be taken apart for cleaning.

●     A fused sight glass has become the gold standard for usage in demanding environments. As part of its manufacturing, the window in this sight glass is fused together with the metal carrier ring.

Fused sight glass windows are very resistant to catastrophic collapse because the metal ring’s compressive force is greater than the tensile strength of the glass.

How is the Sight Flow Indicator in India made?

Sight glasses may be made from a number of different types of glass.

Soda-lime glass can be     used for sight glass windows in non-critical, low-pressure applications if     the fluid or media being studied is cold and non-abrasive.

However, borosilicate glass or acrylic polymers are typically used to manufacture sight glass windows for process fluids whose temperature ranges up to 536°F, as this form of glass would break at higher temperatures.

Sight glass windows used     in environments hotter than 536°F are made of quartz or sapphire.

These latter sight glasses are typically employed in procedures that require resistance to heat stress and corrosion or operate at temperatures above 500°F.

Sight glasses can also     be manufactured using high-grade speciality plastics like acrylic or     polycarbonates for use in certain hygienic processing applications.

Pros and Cons of Plastic Sight Glass manufactured by an excellent Sight Glass supplier in Vadodara:

Pros:

●     In contrast to glass, most polymers are not easily broken. Toughness is a major factor in terms of security, hence this is an essential attribute. For the sake of employee and customer safety, several factories and processing plants will not accept a glass or other easily broken materials.

●     Plastic sight glasses can withstand the alcohols, alkalis, and acids used in the production of many foods and drinks without breaking down.

●     Some plastic eyeglasses may be very sturdy substitutes for glass, depending on the construction. Plastic polymer is injected into a carefully shaped metal support ring, creating a very sturdy plastic sight glass window, as offered by some manufacturers.

●     When compared to their glass counterparts, sight glasses made from plastic are more affordable to produce. Therefore, they are commonly used for inexpensive purposes like fluid level gauges.

Cons:

●     Plastic sight glasses' useful field of view is smaller than that of their glass counterparts. Sight glasses made of plastic are only suitable for applications having low-temperature processes i.e. below 300°F, as even high-grade plastic composites melt at higher operating temperatures.

●     Transparency and functionality may be compromised over time by scaling, abrasive damage, as well as other surface imperfections in plastic sight glasses more so than in glass equivalents.

Points to keep in mind while choosing the perfect Sight Flow Indicator for your industrial application:

Consider the following guidelines listed by the leading manufacturer and supplier of Sight Flow Indicator in India when deciding on the ideal sight glass for your needs:

1.  Max operating temperature:

Sight glass windows made up of Soda-lime glass, as mentioned above, can only withstand temperatures of 300°F or less. 

At higher temperatures, either borosilicate or quartz/sapphire glass is required.

2.  Thermal shock:

When deciding on a material for sight glass, designers must keep in mind how the temperature is likely to fluctuate quickly.

Rapid or dramatic temperature changes in the workplace are incompatible with the use of sight glass with low durability, low thermal conductivity, as well as high thermal expansion coefficient.

Borosilicate glass, which has a lower expansion coefficient than regular glass, is, therefore, more suitable for use as window panes since it is less affected by variations in temperature. Generally, the sight glass windows made of plastic can withstand temperature changes without much of an issue because of their elasticity.

3.  Corrosion:

Some caustic or acidic chemicals will lead sight glass windows to grow “cloudy” over time, reducing their transparency. Select a material of the sight glass window that is resistant to corrosion for use in these settings.

The frame of the sight glass should be made of a material that is resistant to corrosion as well as compatible with viewing the fluid inside.

4.  Abrasion:

Pick a material for the sight glass that will not be damaged by the particles present in the fluid. Sight glasses can be tested visually or by using ultrasonic technology to check for abrasions.

5.  Pressure:

As indicated earlier, fused sight glasses should be utilised in all high-pressure situations to avoid sight glass failure.

6.  Impact:

Food processing is one industry where materials suspended in the process fluids could potentially damage the sight glass window. If your glasses have scratches from particles, you should get new ones right once.

If the viewing window is constructed of glass, fixed-type sight glasses are the most resilient.

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Hydronic Heating- Is it worth it this winter?

Hydronic heating is one of the most trusted heating elements of today’s generation. People are more interested in having this element in their home for heating the houses, offices, etc. When this winter chills up, this type of heating system is considered the smart decision.

The Hydronic heating system which we companies provide to our clients is super quiet. These Hydronic heating systems are extremely energy efficient. This Hydronic heating system serves as a great comfortable alternative heating system, especially for the winter, without much expense.

What is Hydronic Heating Victoria?

Hydronic Heating Victoria is a clever and energy-efficient heating system that uses water to heat the entire room/house. Water served as a source of heat transport. Heat is absorbed from the boiler, which is the initial source point. It further travels through the piping system, which is typically present beneath the floor, which releases warmth into the entire home.

Water seems to be continuously looped through the pipes. When the water cools down, it further moves to the source point for further reheating, and it continues to maintain home preference temperature in the winter.

Hydronic Heating boiler and its replacement

The boiler serves a key role in heating the entire house. If the Hydronic heating boiler is not functioning properly, it’s time to change the faulty one. So if it gets faulty, it needs to be replaced for the smooth functioning of the Hydronic boiler. We also provide a facility for Boiler Replacement Hydronic Heating.

We have various Italian-designed and manufactured boilers. Our experts always suggest using the new boiler, which is smaller in size, quieter, and far more efficient than the existing one in most cases.

You just need to send us a few photos and submit the form then we will provide you the written quotation for the boiler changeover. We will get right onto it for you. We are proud of ourselves for providing you the fantastic customer service.

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MONITOR & OPTIMISE YOUR VILLA’S ELECTRICAL SYSTEM WITH MESSUNG’S SPDS

Messung, pioneer of the indigenous PLC and leader in PLC-based automation, brings you smart power distribution control panels. Messung develops Industry 4.0 compatible, smart Cloud-based electrical panels incorporating automation products like PLC, HMI, SCADA along with special Busbar power distribution products.

Messung offers the total low voltage power distribution control system for different applications. Be it a machine, water treatment plant, hospital, hotel, farmhouse or villa, Messung studies the requirements of the customer and proposes an efficient, cost-effective solution. Messung’s team provides programming, engineering, training and documentation services as part of the total deliverables.

Requirements of luxury homes

Every luxury villa, bungalow or farmhouse requires a convenient Electrical Panel to terminate the various sources of power. Typically, these residences use power from four main sources: main power grid, Diesel Generator, UPS and Solar.

These homes also need a Controller to help maintain and monitor all the various elements and provide uninterrupted power to the occupant. Messung works with clients to offer them the safest and most efficient solution ensuring that every panel is made to order for the client’s specific requirements.

Typically, luxury villas, bungalows and farmhouses require the following:

· Water pump system

· Boiler/Geyser/Solar operation

· Sprinkler system for lawns

· Timer control for outdoor and indoor lighting

· UPS to Generator switching with fuel level monitoring of generator

· Energy metering and monitoring (allowing auto changeover and shutdown of large consumption sources during power outage)

· Alarm indications with app-based notification

· Synergy with security, surveillance and Smart Automation systems already existing in the house

· Easy integration with Home Automation Systems like KNX, etc.

· A neat and elegant visual display made specifically to provide accurate status of all systems

Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution (SPDS)

Messung’s SPDS (Smart Power Distribution Solution) for villas, bungalows & farmhouses is a smart electrical panel designed as per IEC 61439 Standards. It provides unmatched safety for distribution and monitoring of electrical power. It connects various power sources to a single point, with PLC controls for switching the source.

Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution is designed to be the center for connected power in the luxury villa. It is an intelligent control panel with compact power distribution for space saving and PLC controls for switching the source.

Features of Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution (SPDS)

· Safe and easy termination of various power sources - grid, DG set, UPS, Solar

· Automation & control for intelligent Power Distribution and Control to suit the villa’s specific needs

· Intelligent supervision and alarm systems for the entire electrical system of the villa

· Intelligent solar energy management with battery management

· IoT Interface possible (alarm & notification through SMS)

· Easy integration with existing home automation systems like KNX, Crestron, etc.

· Auto changeover of the incoming sources through PLC and monitoring by HMI

· Compact power distribution with space saving

· Individual power consumption from different sources

· Alarm indications like low fuel level, solar and UPS battery status

· Cloud connectivity and remote monitoring on mobile and laptop through OPCUA & MQTT PROTOCOL

· Power management panel ranges from 25kw to 75kw

· PLC Control Description

· MODBUS TCP/RTU, PROFIBUS, ETHERNET IP, MQTT, OPCUA communication available

· PLC will continuously monitor availability of power source and in case of failure will automatically change the source in predefined way

· Can easily monitor the system through HMI, SCADA and also through mobile app

· User friendly screens to guide the user for diagnosis

Conclusion

Experience the superior functionality and aesthetics designed for the modern, luxury home with Messung’s SPDS. The electrical panel connects cutting-edge hardware with innovative software to improve operational efficiency and ensure smooth changeovers for the comfort, convenience and safety for residents.

Call Messung to customise your own SPDS today – and enjoy Cloud connectivity, 100% uptime and fail-safe operations of your home’s electrical system.

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How operational excellence through Lean, TQM, TOC and 5S help organisations improve performance? – Case Studies & Success Stories

Some of the case studies of our implementation as Lean, TQM, TPM, Six Sigma consultants in sites across India, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Saudi Arabia.

Case 1 – Industry: Material Handling equipment Manufacturing

Business Case :  Not able to meet Customer demand on delivery time, due to constraint in fabrication.  This resulted in adopting build to stock policy which added to inventory, last minute design corrections  and rework costs

Project Goal : To reduce Chassis Fabrication time by 30 %

Approach used : Lean and Kaizen –- Studying and Mapping current process, -Analysing VA and NVA – Identifying and implementing solutions – Training on new methods – Standardization + more than 35 small improvements (kaizens)

Internal Customer Satisfaction measurement

Result Achieved : Previous : 9 Hrs/ Chassis

Target : 6 Hrs 30 Minutes Hrs /Chassis

Achieved: 4 Hrs 20 minutes/Chassis

Case 2 – Industry : Precision Tool Manufacturing

Business Case :  Huge order backlogs and not able to meet customer expected delivery.  Lead-time from order to Delivery was more than 12 weeks whereas customer expectation was less than 4 weeks.

The Challenge; It is a High Variety and Low Volume Business and Changeover time is much greater than Processing time.

Most tools are special tools and it was taking significant time at design stage

Project Goal :  To Clear all Backlog orders

To reduce Lead-time in Phases to meet customer expectations (Both Manufacturing and Pre-Manufacturing Lead Times)

Approach used : Lean & Value Stream Mapping – Identifying the Bottlenecks – Developing should be Map and Implementation . ( Key tools: QCO, TPM, 5S, Standard work and Quality Improvement)

Result Achieved :  Reduced overall lead-time in Phases from 12 weeks to 8 weeks in Phase 1 and from 8 weeks to 6 weeks in Phase 2.

Zero Backlog orders / Delighted Sales Team

Intangible Results : Internal Customer Satisfaction increased from 29 % to 76 % which improved cross-functional team work

Case 3 – Industry : Fiber Optic Cables for Telecom Industry

Business Case :  Need to double Productivity as the demand increased in for exports

Challenges : It is completely manual process and productivity dependent on individual skills

Project Goal :

To Improve Productivity by 50 % from 430 ends per line per day to 650 ends per day per line

Approach used : Lean & Value Stream Mapping – TWI – 5S – Kanban

Hourly output monitoring and PDCA. Select pilot line and horizontal deployment to other lines

Result Achieved :  Improved Productivity in Phases from 430 ends to 800 ends per line per day in  2 phases – 6 months duration.

This was achieved with existing workforce whose basic educational qualification is Class 10 or less

Case 4 – Industry : Apparel

Business Case :  To meet demand of the export market . This could be met only if  the lead-time from Cut-to-Pack is below 6 days.

Project Goal : To Reduce Lead-time from Cut to Pack from 9 days to less than  6 days

Approach used : A pilot line is selected, Takt time concept introduced,

VSM – Current and Future, Line Balancing  , TWI, Heijunka + more than 25 small kaizens

Result Achieved : Achieved the goal of  Lead-time reduction to less than 6 days in 2 phases

This company was also won Economics Times Manufacturing Excellence Award for best-in-Class Lean Implementation

Case 5 – Industry : Process – One of the Leading FIBC Bags Manufacturer in India

Business Case :  It was a Mix of Labour and Process Oriented Industry. Labour Productivity was low compared to Benchmark companies in China. Quality and Delivery improvement at Optimum cost was the Goal

Project Goal :

To Improve Quality & Delivery and Reduce Cost through Total Employee Involvement

To reduce Wastage by 50 %

Approach used : 5S is used for Total Employee Engagement. Value Stream Mapping to identify the bottlenecks. Kaizen and AC story approached used for day today problem solving

Result Achieved :  On Time Delivery >80 % achieved.  Waste reduction Project is in progress

Case 6 – Industry : Process – Carbon Black

Business Case :  Because of the Product the company is Manufacturing creating a healthy work environment was a challenge. Also the Machine Breakdowns were high due to dusty atmosphere

Project Goal :

To Improve work environment Score to 70 % +

Approach used : 5S , TPM and Visual Factory

Result Achieved : All the 15 zones in the organization achieved/exceeded the  target score of 70 %. Employees felt happy about the better working environment. Indirect Benefits include Productivity, Employee Involvement and Customer delight

Case 7 – Industry : Automotive Machining

Business Case :  Being in the Business of High precision parts for Automotive applications, quality and delivery are the top most priorities.

There is always a need to continual improvement to retain the share of Business.

Project Goal :

Reduce Customer Complaints, COPQ

Improve OEE and Value addition per employee

Improve Quality System Rating –Given by Customer

Approach used : 5S , Lean, TPM and Policy Deployment

Result Achieved : Achieved Zero Customer complaints and <100 ppm target . Exceeded target score in  Quality System Audit. Reduction in Cost of poor Quality

Became a TOP rated supplier among all suppliers.

Achieved Platinum rating from OEM

Case 8 – Industry :  High volume food manufacturing through automated machines – not for profit organisation sensitive in cost, hygiene, productivity and image of the organisation.

Business Case :  This Industry feeds more than 1.5 million kids per day through Mid Day Meal scheme.  Quality , Cost and Delivery are the key indicators to serve more and more hungry children. Operating more than 40 Kitchens throughout India. To improve the efficiency of the Kitchens The origination started TPM implementation with the help of Seven Steps.

Project Goal :

Reduce Customer Complaints, COPQ

Improve OEE of Key Equipments like Boilers, Roti Makers , RO units

Approach used : 5S & TPM

Result Achieved : Bellary unit successfully completed phase 1 TPM implementation in 18 months . Achieved targeted results in OEE, Water and Energy savings, Quality improvements and Employee engagement

Case 9 – Industry : Made to order and stock products needing Lean manufacturing for quick response and faster supplies

Business Case :  MNC started its Operations in India a few years back . The Leadership team in India selected Seven Steps as their Strategic Partners to support their Vision 2022 project

The company supplies more than 25000 variety of Springs

Project Goal :

Facilitation of Business Excellence Initiatives by establishing Vision, Strategies, Roadmap and Key Milestones

Approach used : TQM , Lean and Policy Deployment

Result Achieved : Established good Daily Management Systems to reduce day to day Fire Fighting and focus on Break through Improvements. Backlogs brought close to ZERO using Lean approach

Machine Efficiencies improved to address High mix and low volume demands

Seven Steps Academy of Excellence is the training and development arm of Seven Steps Group having Headquarters in Bangalore, India.  We provide training both inhouse and public programmes on globally recognized Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Six sigma black belt.  Our reach is all over India and we serve cities such as Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Hosur, Mysore, Ludhiana, Neemrana, Chandigarh, Pant Nagar, Nashik.

Other trainings being provided from Seven Steps academy include

Lean Six sigma professional training – Green belt and black belt

Lean experiential learning – training for Lean professional and Lean champions

Applied 5S and Visual Management for manufacturing, retail, logistics, Hospitals, Construction, Airports, Banking sector, power plants

Kanban and Supermarket implementation training for retail, manufacturing, hospitals, medical stores, warehouse, showrooms.

Total productive maintenance training – TPM, Autonomous maintenance – Jishu Hozen for manufacturing plants and continuous process plants.

Lean layout training.

Through our Consulting arm, we facilitate deployment of Lean manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Policy deployment, 5S , Six Sigma consulting and implementation support.  Our consultants are from multiple sector experience and we operate all over India.

Some of the flagship training programmes conducted at Seven Steps Academy of Excellence are:

Six sigma Green Belt

Six Sigma Black Belt

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Skill development programme – Campus to Corporate – Precision Engineering

Applied 5S

TPM

Lean Experimental Learning Programme

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Messung Smart Power Distribution solution for Villas

Every luxury villa, bungalow or farmhouse requires a convenient Electrical Panel to terminate the various sources of power. Typically, these residences use power from four main sources: main power grid, Diesel Generator, UPS and Solar.

These homes also need a Controller to help maintain and monitor all the various elements and provide uninterrupted power to the occupant. Messung works with clients to offer them the safest and most efficient solution ensuring that every panel is made to order for the client’s specific requirements.

Typical requirements of villas, bungalows & farmhouses

Luxury villas, bungalows and farmhouses come with many electrical and safety elements that require constant maintenance and seamless interoperability to ensure comfort and convenience. The list of requirements includes:

•UPS to Generator switching with fuel level monitoring of generator

•Energy metering and monitoring (allowing auto changeover and shutdown of large consumption sources during power outage)

•Water pump system

•Boiler/Geyser/Solar operation

•Sprinkler system for lawns

•Timer control for outdoor and indoor lighting

•Alarm indications with app-based notification

•Synergy with security, surveillance and Smart Automation systems already existing in the house

•Easy integration with Home Automation Systems like KNX, etc.

A neat and elgnat visual display made specifically to provide accurate status of all systems

Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution (SPDS)

Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution is designed to be the center for connected power in the luxury villa. It is an intelligent control panel designed as per IEC 61439 standards with compact power distribution for space saving and PLC controls for switching the source. The entire system can be monitored locally with HMI and Scada system and remotely with IoT interface and Cloud connectivity.

Features of Messung’s Smart Power Distribution Solution (SPDS)

•Individual sources from grid, DG set, UPS, Solar

•Auto changeover of the incoming sources through PLC and monitoring by HMI

•Compact power distribution with space saving

•Individual power consumption from different sources      •Alarm indications like low fuel level, solar and UPS battery status                    

•IoT interface possible (alarm & notification through SMS) and Cloud connectivity

•Cloud connectivity and remote monitoring on mobile and laptop

•Power management panel ranges from 25kw to 75kw

 PLC Control Description                      

•MODBUS TCP/RTU, PROFIBUS, ETHERNET IP, MQTT, OPCUA communication available

•PLC will continuously monitor availability of power source and in case of failure will automatically change the source in predefined way

•Can easily monitor the system through HMI, SCADA and also through mobile app

•Mobile app and PLC communication is possible through OPCUA & MQTT PROTOCOL

•Can be interfaced with Cloud connectivity for data storage & analysis

•SMS & notification for alarm and critical events

•User friendly screens to guide the user for diagnosis

Typical Load Calculation (Sample table)

Every luxury villa, bungalow or farmhouse requires a convenient Electrical Panel to terminate the various sources of power. Typically, these residences use power from four main sources: main power grid, Diesel Generator, UPS and Solar.

These homes also need a Controller to help maintain and monitor all the various elements and provide uninterrupted power to the occupant. Messung works with clients to offer them the safest and most efficient solution ensuring that every panel is made to order for the client’s specific requirements.

                                      QTY           kW        TOTAL kW

Motor                                2              2            4

Ac                                       5             2.5        12.5

Boiler                                 1             1.5          1.5

Indoor lighting                 20          0.009     0.18

Outdoor lighting              20          0.012     0.24

Home appliances             10           0.3          3

Sprinklers                          2           0.18        0.36

Total kW                           21.78    

Recommended panel as per above chart: Smart Power Distribution Solution 25kW

Conclusion

Messung’s SPDS provides all the safety features of a standard panel with added functionality and aesthetics designed for the modern, luxury home.  It connects cutting-edge hardware with innovative software to enable users to pinpoint overloads & inefficiencies, make informed decisions, improve operational efficiency and ensure smooth changeovers to provide comfort, convenience and safety for residents.

SPDS helps to protect people and equipment, and allows you to monitor the property in real time. SPDS is available in ranges from 25kw to 75kw, to suit individual requirements. Through Cloud connectivity, you can monitor and access the status of your home’s electrical system on your smart device or computer, helping you to optimise energy expenses, ensure 100% uptime and fail-safe operation.

Messung Electrical Engineering is Master Distributor-India for Wohner Gmbh. Messung partners with OEMs and end users to deliver the most efficient electrical panel components and solutions that answer today’s critical electrical power distribution & management challenges.

Messung provides turnkey solutions to OEMs and end users by manufacturing smart low voltage electrical distribution control panels using the latest Wohner Busbar solutions for safe, compact installations as per IEC 61439 standard. These panels are also fitted with world class IoT based Smart Energy Management Systems and Analysers with solutions to remove Harmonics and ensure clean power to end user applications. For the most advanced power distribution and control solutions, and versatile energy management systems, contact Messung Electrical Engineering.

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Heat Pump VRF Systems Market Size, Trends, Opportunities, Innovations & Forecast till 2027

Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) air conditioning system is an extremely energy efficient means of accurately regulating the temperature within commercial buildings. In most cases, the zones or rooms within a building are required to operate at different temperatures. The heating and cooling requirement of these spaces inevitably changes throughout the day, typically as an outcome of varying occupancy, change in the outdoor temperature, and particularly, the position of the sun. The collective effect of these external and internal influences often signifies that some particular area of the building requires cooling, while other areas require heating to maintain a comfortable and constant internal environment. The growth of the heat pump VRF systems market is highly reliant on the growth of the construction industry particularly focusing on building applications.

For the purpose of in depth analysis, the heat pump VRF systems market has been segmented on the basis of system type, applications, and geography. Based on system type, the market has been segmented into air-source heat pump variable refrigerant flow system, absorption heat pump variable refrigerant flow system, and ground-source heat pump variable refrigerant flow system. Various applications of heat pump VRF system include application in the residential and commercial sector. The commercial sector has been further divided into five categories – building application, retail store, healthcare sector, educational institute, and hotels& restaurants. The report provide cross functional analysis of all the above mentioned segments across different regions such as  Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Middle East &Africa, and Latin America.

Good pace of growth of the construction industry and easy installation of VRF systems is one of the major drivers for the growth of the heat pump VRF systems market. Design reliability and flexibility of the heat pump (VRF) system makes it an exceptional choice for commercial building applications. Therefore, the growing need for energy-efficient alternatives compared to traditional air-conditioning systems is anticipated to drive the market for heat pump (VRF) systems during the forecast period from 2017 to 2025. In addition, the cost effective installation of VRF systems and energy savings is also anticipated to increase the demand for heat pump VRF systems in the coming years. In turn, this is projected to impact the market of heat pump VRF systems in a positive manner during the forecast period.

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Despite many driving factors, the heat pump VRF systems market is expected to face slowdown in its growth rate because of the lack of awareness regarding the benefits of VRF systems and very high initial investment. Design issues in refrigerant piping and control wiring are restraining factors for the global heat pump VRF systems market. Very little or no duct space requirement and saving of more than thirty percent of HVAC energy usage is likely to create a significant opportunity for heat pump VRF systems in the coming years.

By system type, the air-source heat pump VRF systems type held significant market share because of its quality of providing low energy alternatives to conventional boiler systems. However, absorption heat pump VRF systems are projected to witness exponential growth during the forecast period. Cool changeover zone due to the modular build up makes it the most appropriate choice for various end user applications.

Geographically, the global heat pump VRF systems market is mainly driven by the Asia Pacific region.  Growth in construction activity in the APAC region coupled with the growing demand for smart devices to handle VRF systems, and increasing urbanization and population in APAC has led to growing demand to implement heat pump VRF systems in this region. Shorter piping run along with better refrigerant distribution and a highly responsive piping system is expected to drive the heat pump VRF systems market rapidly. This region is expected to maintain its dominance in the market during the forecast period owing to the presence of variable refrigerant volume system manufacturers in countries such as South Korea and Japan.

Some of the leading players operating in the heat pump VRF systems market includes Daikin Industries (Japan),Mitsubishi Electrical (Japan),Fujitsu  (Japan),Toshiba Corporation (Japan), LG Electronics (South Korea),Midea Group (China),Johnson Controls (the U.S.),Lennox International  (the U.S.),United Technologies Corporation (the U.S.), and Ingersoll Rand Plc. (Ireland).

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Residential Landlord Insurance – What does it cover?

When you rent out a property, in whatever capacity, you need to have the right insurance in place. For both you and your tenant. It is important that you understand that this is not home insurance as you would perceive it to be and that the level of cover you have is correct. Often you will find that if there is a fire or flooding home insurance would not cover your property if let out. The contents may also not be covered by a standard home policy.

There are different types of landlord insurance cover. Such as commercial landlords insurance, business insurance and insurance for unoccupied properties. There are various areas covered such as employers liability insurance and public liability insurance. It is important that you know that the buildings insurance cover you have is correct.

Renting out a property brings a new set of risks, see our article on Landlords responsibilities. You need to ensure that your investment is secure and protect it as much as possible.

Residential Landlords Insurance and Commercial Landlords Insurance covers risks your home insurance wouldn’t. There are various levels of cover available. You should ensure that there is contents cover, fire and flooding cover. Unoccupied properties cover, employers liability and public liability insurance if required. It is important that you make sure that your investment is secure and protected. Also that you don’t run the risk of having a claim rejected. If you are trying to make a claim on residential insurance that is not correct for rental properties.

There are differences between residential building insurance and commercial landlords insurance contained in other articles.

Landlord insurance covers everything from residential insurance such as buildings insurance and contents. Tailored and extended to cover your tenanted property and take on all the risks as follows:-

Rehousing costs/Loss of Rent/Alternative Accommodation

This type of cover comes into effect where there may be fire or flood at the property rendering it inhabitable. It could be any such insured events even earthquake. It would enable you to make sure that you’re insured for loss of rental income and alternative accommodation. If you have a standard residential policy on your building it would not cover this as they are not for commercial landlords. Landlord insurance can also be extended to cover non-payment of rent by defaulting tenants. But this is separate insurance and you would need to speak to us on this.

Most landlords insurance policies have a period where the property can be vacant when having a changeover of tenancies. This can range from thirty to ninety days dependant on your policy. But thereafter it is your responsibility to make sure that the insurance company’s informed. You would then go onto a limited amount of perils known as FLEA fire lightening earthquake and air crash. It is important that your property is not unoccupied for any length of time because it could affect your policy but you need to speak to your insurance company or ourselves.

Malicious Damage and Theft

Landlord insurance cover often covers wilful damage caused by tenants. This could be for instance where they have left the property and stolen certain items. Such as an oven etc. It could be a boiler or anything else within the property that they may wish to take. It is important that you understand that as this is malicious damage it isn’t covered by every policy. But by most and you should check. Residential/home insurance would be unlikely to cover you for this or any acts of vandalism.

Accidental damage will also be in some policies. It is the cost of repairing or replacing property or contents damaged as a one-off incident. This cover will come under your landlords’ contents insurance. So it is important that you check your level of cover. Not all Insurance Companies have this within their policy. But we can confirm whether this is the case or not. It can be a one-off by some insurance companies and you should check your policy. Accidental damage will not cover wear and tear of an item over a period of time. It is there for one-off events such as a tenant dropping red wine on a carpet. It will not cover the tenants own furniture or belongings within the property. They need to have their own tenants’ contents insurance.

It is important that you familiarise yourself with your policy. To understand what it includes and does not.

Liability Insurance

It is important that you understand your landlord responsibilities. You have a duty of care to your tenants. Residential insurance will not cover you for public liability. If someone injures themselves as a tradesman or a guest then you are responsible. It is important that you have the correct cover. Landlord buildings insurance covers you for any accidents and injuries to your tenant. It can be the case that there are serious injuries as a result of a landlords negligence. Such as loose tiles, water leaks, burst pipes, broken floorboards or ripped carpeting. Which could result in a hefty claim from your tenant. Your landlord insurance would cover you for the cost of this. An insurance company would pay them directly.

If you did not have the correct cover or the right insurance then you could end up facing a crippling bill. That could affect your cash flow. It is not the compensation that has to be paid but all legal expenses by the tenants or contractors solicitors. The landlords responsibilities have increased again by the recent Human Habitation Bill that has become law. It is important that you understand your responsibilities.

Legal Expenses cover

Did you know as a landlord that your property qualifies as a business? You thus need to have the right insurance for any legal liabilities. Often landlords don’t expect there to be disputes with right of ways or with neighbours. But it can be that this is covered by your landlord building insurance. If a tenant makes a claim against you as outlined above then you would be insured for legal expenses. Not all policies cover the landlords fully. It is important that you understand what is included in your policy.

Legal expenses will not cover you for taking any tenant to court for non-payment of rent. This is a separate rent guarantee scheme that would need to be taken out and we can give you a quote for this.

Landlord Insurance protects landlords from risks associated with their rental property. It usually includes buildings and contents insurance. But it can also include specific cover as we have outlined above such a property owners liability, loss of rent and tenant default insurance. It is important that you have the right cover. Landlord insurance will also cover you for the cost of repairing or rebuilding your property if the structure is damaged or destroyed. It can be extended to various optional extras such as furniture and rental payment insurance.

Do I need landlord insurance?

If you have one or more rental properties, it is important to make sure that you have got the right insurance in place. A standard home insurance policy won’t cover you for risks associated with renting out your property. Whilst landlord insurance isn’t a legal rule it is often needed by mortgage lenders.

There is no legal obligation for a landlord to take out a dedicated insurance policy. But, conventional home insurance won’t cover you for rental activities. If you have a mortgage on your property it is very likely that your lender will need you to take out insurance before you take on tenants. It’s important to note that you will need written permission from your mortgage lender before you let the property. Failure to get this may mean that you may be breaking the terms of your mortgage.

You can choose a range of cover designed for landlords, including property owners liability insurance, contents insurance and buy to let buildings cover. Learn more about the difference between standard homeowner insurance and landlord insurance by reading our various articles. Don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss your requirements.

We are landlords insurance specialists and can offer tailored policies to cover all your requirements. Compare landlord insurance with iInsure365.

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Ecobee EB-STATE3LTP-02 - 3 Lite Thermostat Pro Edition

ecobee EB-STATE3LTP-02 - Ecobee 3 Lite Thermostat Pro Edition COMPATIBILITY

Conventional (2H/2C) - Gas, Oil, Electric.

Boiler (2-stage-heating).

Air-Cooled and Geo-Thermal Heat pumps

(2 stage heath pump + 2 stage aux heat/2 cool) (4H/2C).

Duel-Fuel support.

WIRE TERMINALS

RC, G, Y1, Y2, O/B, RH, C, W1, W2, PEK

POWERING METHOD

Wired 24 VAC through terminals C or Rc. Power Extender Kit enables you to reliably power your thermostat without having to run a C wire.

POWER CONSUMPTION

Less than 3.5VA

CONNECTIVITY AND SECURITY

Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n @ 2.4 GHz

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2)

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

DHCP (dynamic) or static IP addressing

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

BANDWITH

15-20 MB/month

SUSTAINABILITY

Mercury free

Arsenic free

PVC free

ROHS compliant

THERMOSTAT SENSORS

Temperature

Proximity

Humidity

TEMPERATURE RANGE

Temperature: 45° to 92°F (7° to 33°C)

Display: 40° to 100°F (5° to 37°C)

Sensitivity: +/- 1°F (+/- 0.5°C)

Operating: 32° to 130°F (0° to 55°C)

HUMIDITY RANGE

Display: 20% to 90% RH

Sensitivity: +/- 5% RH

Operating: 5% to 95% RH (non condensing)

STORAGE

-31° to 113°F (-35° to 45°C)

5% to 95% RH (non condensing)

WARRANTY

5-year warranty (PRO Install only)

LANGUAGES

English

DISPLAY

3.5" full-color LCD touch screen

320 x 480 pixel display

HOME KIT-ENABLED

Home Kit requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 9 or later. Controlling Home Kit-enabled accessories away from home requires an Apple TV with tv OS 9.0 or later and an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 9 or later.

Name Ecobee EB-STATE3LTP-02 - 3 Lite Thermostat Pro Edition

Item Number EB-STATE3LTP-02

Manufacturer Product Number EB-STATE3LTP-02

SKU - PIM Number 676251580912904

ERP Number 371079

Unit of Measure EA

Weight 1.2 Pounds (Lb)

Length 4.1 Inches (In)

Width 4.1 Inches (In)

Height 0.8 Inches (In)

Country of Origin CHN

Brand ecobee

Batteries Included No

750mV Compatible No

Auto Changeover Yes

Built In Wi-Fi Yes

Change/Check Reminders Yes

Daylight Savings Time Ready Yes

Digital Yes

Digital-Non Programmable No

Digital-Programmable Yes

Display Yes

Displays Outdoor Temperature No

Heat Pump Compatible Yes

Indoor Remote Sensor No

Language English

Low Battery Indicator Yes

Programmable Fan Yes

Stages Cool 2

Stages Heat 4

Vacation Mode No

Battery Backup Yes

Color Black

Dual Transformer Compatible Yes

Fan Switching No

Manual No

Removable Interface Yes

System Switching No