MGP Internship Update #4

Hello everyone! This will most likely be the last update to our project over the summer!

The colored wrap around labels finally came in this week! Let me tell you–when you are writing down potential label positions everything seems a lot more doable. Mike and I looked up at some of the pipes we were going to place labels on and collectively said “oh boy…” But! With an insanely long ladder and a teammate to hold it down, we made quick work.

The labeling process in Building 88 was a bit different then the Wine Room (if you read the last update post you probably already have a firm idea). We used color to denote what kind of product is in the pipe. Another nice thing about Building 88 was that a lot of the lines already had common names. They weren’t marked in the field that well–but the lines were shown on the operator screens. Thus after the project was done the operators could physically see what was on their screens matched to the field.

Here is an example of one of the labels:

As you can see, the line’s common name was S-GIN (which actually stands for Seagrams Gin). Fun fact, back in the day they used to barrel their gin in old whiskey barrels to give it a specific flavor and color. Anyway, the pipe is marked with the common name, the green tells you what product is in it, and the arrow denotes the direction of flow.