Today we went back and examined our box cutting process. We eliminiated a bunch of processing time to our process of cutting boxes with one simple change…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
On Friday, we went to a manufacturing method called one piece flow. With our shop being so small, processing batch kits was a bear but we did it because we thought it saved time. Boy were we wrong! For a 4’x4′ kit, we were right around 6-7 hours per kit. Not terribly bad, but not […]
Today we applied lean at home. We applied lean thinking to processing down tree limbs and because of the time we saved we applied 3S to a big outdoor canopy. The canopy now has a place and assembly was made easier.
Here at Fine Line Automation, we have started down a journey of lean manufacturing. To help us with our journey we are publishing a series of videos on 2 Second improvements we are making. The first set of these videos involve improving set-up times for processes so we can move to a one piece flow […]
Production is back up here at Fine Line Automation. Thank you all for your patientence as we bring things back up to speed. Waiting on leadnuts for 5 kits and 3 small orders. They will be here today (Thanks Ahren for overnighting them!) and everything will be out. You can see the massive pile up […]
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