Project Problem Causes Re-direction

The project our summer interns have been working on for the past month hit a major snag last week. One of the integral pieces of equipment used in the project broke. On Tuesday morning an Intern heard a loud pop come from the Minolta PS 7000 over-head camera.

We inspected it and found nothing physically wrong, so we examined the CPU attached to the camera. When we opened the inside we noticed that a small resistor had explored.

OK, this is going to be simple...all we have to do is change the computer, Wrong!

For a solid week our MIS Director work on the problem, but could not get another computer to recognize the camera.

The interns continued to work on the project while we looked for a solution.
And this morning after a weekend of thinking about it I decided to re-focus our energy.

I instructed one Intern to take all the plans that would have been scanned on the Minolta and shrink them down to 11X17. A second intern is scanning these reduced plans and the third is re-organizing the completed files.