Afternoon all
I was looking for a recommendation for an auto machine for work.
Application is a little specific. The machine will be living in Batam, which is an Indonesian island off Singapore. By way of background, Batam is effectively an industrial/manufacturing island, has cheap operating costs, so a lot of western manufacturing companies operate there. The island is a little primitive (read third worldish) and the machine will be in an office attached to our workshop.
We are getting the machine because we will have some engineers from a client supervising our manufacturing process for a couple of months and they weren’t so keen on the coffee and condensed milk that is on offer. (normally I end up drinking coke for my caffeine hit when I’m there)
So the machine will need to be fairly robust and simple to operate. We have a tea lady there, but the engineers will probably end up operating the machine themselves.
Also we use bottled water, but it is reverse osmosis stuff, will that be a problem?
I doubt there are service agents for any coffee machines in Batam, so it may need to be self serviced or if we are desperate, someone can bring it back on the plane, but it will be a PIA.
Anyone have any recommendations?
We could go really simple and get a nespresso machine with the foil pods, as that would cut down most of the variables. I haven’t tried the machines though.
no real budget, but have ruled out the $5k Jura machine. so up to $2.5K, but proably around the $1.5K may be better in that way if it breaks down we may just buy another one.
thanks
Clint
I was looking for a recommendation for an auto machine for work.
Application is a little specific. The machine will be living in Batam, which is an Indonesian island off Singapore. By way of background, Batam is effectively an industrial/manufacturing island, has cheap operating costs, so a lot of western manufacturing companies operate there. The island is a little primitive (read third worldish) and the machine will be in an office attached to our workshop.
We are getting the machine because we will have some engineers from a client supervising our manufacturing process for a couple of months and they weren’t so keen on the coffee and condensed milk that is on offer. (normally I end up drinking coke for my caffeine hit when I’m there)
So the machine will need to be fairly robust and simple to operate. We have a tea lady there, but the engineers will probably end up operating the machine themselves.
Also we use bottled water, but it is reverse osmosis stuff, will that be a problem?
I doubt there are service agents for any coffee machines in Batam, so it may need to be self serviced or if we are desperate, someone can bring it back on the plane, but it will be a PIA.
Anyone have any recommendations?
We could go really simple and get a nespresso machine with the foil pods, as that would cut down most of the variables. I haven’t tried the machines though.
no real budget, but have ruled out the $5k Jura machine. so up to $2.5K, but proably around the $1.5K may be better in that way if it breaks down we may just buy another one.
thanks
Clint


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