Work Instructions by another name?

SOP?

Although "plan" is really a drawing that views an object from above, as in Floor Plan, and "elevation" one that views from the side.

jsw

Procedure? Art

Thanks for you thought, but, no, not "plans". These are the step by step instructions that tell a person exactly how to perform a process. Example for my current project:

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Pete Stanaitis

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Operating procedure?

Where I used to work, we called them process books. We tried to have the process books written at a level where someone who had done the job a couple of months ago would have no problems. We did not try to have the books so someone that had never done the job could do it according to the book. We found that if they were written at that level, most people would not read them because they were so long and detailed.

=20 Dan

frames for my wife. She's going to put on 2

blacksmith conference in Rapid City, SD.

I use 'Process'.

Good on ya!

--Winston

Pete, I must have missed this. We're fellow 3Mers. I quit in 1991 after 15 years as a manufacturing engineer in Bedford Park and Hutchinson.

I used to write Process Standards for how to manufacture various tape making processes.

Karl

Wow, your wife must have really strong hands! I can't even -think- of weaving wrought iron with my strong and tough hands.

(Well, someone had to say it.)

-- Energy and persistence alter all things. --Benjamin Franklin

Nobody follows instructions. Call them Directives and they'll be mandatory.

They still won't get followed.

Make them into training videos, and at least they'll get played in the presence of the folks who are supposed to watch them.

Assembley procedures?

Hul

Pete S wrote:

I call them a CNC program.

Production order=3Dprocess plan+raw material

Once the two are combined and have been released to shop scheduling, the = paperwork portion will oftentimes be referred to as the "traveller"

Okay---- you laugh---- But some of our folk have done weaving with copper, brass and silver.

Pete Stanaitis

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You may be thinking of an Operational Method Sheet or OMS. It differes from a procedure in that it does not only tell you what to do, but has detailed pictures to show you exactly how to do it documenting practically every single motion. In other words it assumes you have no skills and are illiterate.

Process Specification Sheet. Dave

Can't say for 3M, but some parts of the corporate world would refer to it as a "Work Breakdown Structure" or WBS.

Kevin Gallimore

At Western Elecrtic, AKA At &T, AKA Lucent, AKA Agere Systems we called them Shop Instruction or S. I.'s

Remove 333 to reply. Randy