When you bid a clean sheet design it’s at best an educated guess hoping you are on the high side, if you are lucky and bidding on more than one of the same machine you…
Making a Project Successful
Sustain - the Fifth "S" of the 5 S System
If you have gone to all the work of setting up the system you must sustain or even improve on it to keep the system working properly. Things change and you need to be flexible.…
Machine Assembly - What Works Best
Most of the time the parts that come in first will be electrical and small parts for subassemblies; this allows you to assemble and wire without having the rest of the machine.
Work Ethics Today
It seems like the younger people entering the work force today haven’t been taught the old ways that our fathers pounded into our heads over and over again. If you have recently had to hire someone,…
The Five S's System
A view from an assembly shop manager… At Setpoint we follow the 5 S’s system, as the shop manager here is my take on how we are able to implement this in our assembly…