Here's a pix of about 1/4 of the shop taken in '04. It's better now by degrees but you get the idea. And, we actually DO get work done.
Anthony suggested: "Google 5s", VERY interesting! Just what I need! I see the day of dropping a 6-32 nut and actually finding it.
We employ the 5S system here, Save, Stow, Shovel, Stumble and aw S*it where did i put that dam thing?????? I actually had a customer that implemented 5S successfully. Cleanest dam heavy assemble plant I ever saw. I think they even recycled the dust from the floor. Didn't help the bottom line, but didn't hurt it either. Did lower work comp costs.
We use the OSWO planning system here. That's Oh S*it, We're Out
Karl
I'm supprised OSHA even lets you walk in the place! ...
--.- Dave
About every year or two (depending on the accumulation) we 'd have an employee auction. We never made any real money but storage was improved and everyone was happy with their bargains. We would do this with everything from nuts and bolts to office furniture. The company would pop for drinks (funded by sales) and a good time was had by all. Try it, you'll like it.
dennis in nca
My signage has the wrong address on it! The building has big fire doors separating the packing/shipping/recieving area from production. We close the doors and pile skids up against them any time ANY inspector comes by. "Your building looks so much bigger from the outside!" "Yea, a lot of people say that."
I believe I can see a child in there, just behind one one machine, chained to another machine, fed every so often. Just like in Dickens' time.
Joe Gwinn
That's how it's been since 1879 when my Great Grandfather started the business. That's how family businesses are done. I was chained to the Reed Prentice lathe on the left front.
Harumph. At least it was family.
I didnt know you were Jewish?
Oy!
Gunner
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
-- Grover Norquist
Ah yes, the chain of guilt!
The Jews made guilt an art, Catholics made it an institution!
That looks like my garage with fewer tools. You can't move around in that sort of mess and looking at it to clean it up makes you depressed. No where to sort, no where to put, no where to move. I call it 'gridlock'.
Next weekend the utility trailer is being backed up to the doors and a trip to the dump will result. Some treasure is going to be demoted to trash for this to work.
Wes
Yup.
Make sure to call scrap men first.
i
At my last house the shop was attached to the house, and you could hardly move and I couldn't get a plan in place to fix it.
Wife had to go out of town for 3 days and the idea hit me. I moved everything from the shop into the house. Cleaned, shoved the bench, tool boxes and shelves into their new order and moved everything back over the next couple days.
Perfect by the time she got back.
I have visited a friend's shop who does earn his money with a DMG CNC-mill. Your shop looks super-tidy compared to his. I'd call his shop a "single-trail". Mess up to your hips and just small passes through it. Didn't take him 30 years, just 8. Goodgawd!
Nick, messy
True enough.
Bless me Father, for I have sinned..my last confession was......
Gunner
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
-- Grover Norquist
A one-man shop can function well in apparent disorganization. Add one other person and productivity plummets.
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:47:30 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "Tom Gardner" quickly quoth:
Catholics added punishment to the guilt requirement, too. Ever seen their large churches, complete with bloody crucifixes, etc?
-- I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
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