We needed a new workbench for our mill tooling. This is the second part of a multiple part series on creating new work cells. We are going to track how a bunch of little 3S activities over time can add up to a ton of waste eliminated. In this video, we demonstrate sorting and standardizing […]
We needed a new workbench for our mill tooling. We will be conducting a multiple improvement series to show you the evolution of the workbench and how a bunch of little 3Sing activities can add up to a big gain. In this first video, we are just putting things away and organizing them onto the […]
We touch a couple of minutes to redo the way we hold our trash can bags in place. This now saves us about 15-30 seconds of struggle everything we change a trash bag.
We finally have SolidWorks plans for our new 2′ x 4′ CNC Router. The actual working area is 28″ x 52″. The plans are for the NEMA 23 version of the kit. If you want to build the NEMA 34 version of the kit, all of the aspects of the design are the same except for […]
When we do 2 Second improvements, most of the time we look to reduce internal waste. Sometimes we can reduce internal waste in unusual ways. We created a set of digital files and a set of detailed Assembly PDFs for one of our machines. The files are used to supplement the assembly video documentation we already […]
Hardboiling eggs is always a chore. You have to get out the pot, boil water, and watch it carefully the whole time. It’s a lot of water that gets wasted and it’s hard to tell when it’s done. The Egg Genie solves all this problems and is uber simple to use. See the video below. […]
We finally have PDF plans for our new 2′ x 4′ CNC Router. The actual working area is 28″ x 52″. The plans are for the NEMA 23 version of the kit. If you want to build the NEMA 34 version of the kit, all of the aspects of the design are the same except for […]
It takes me a few minutes every time I do an quote to copy the quote into an email to send it to a customer. We did a 2 Second improvement to make this a breeze. It saves us on average 1.5 minutes a quote. We spent 75 minutes on the improvement that will impact the processing […]
We are please to announce that we now accept credit cards directly. There is no need to go through PayPal anymore to use a credit card, though we still accept PayPal payment if you want to use them. This also means that we have now expanded the amount of cards that we can take to […]
The other day I was trying to upload a large file to my spree store. The file wouldn’t upload. The web browser would initiate the request and spin for about 10 minutes like it was processing. Then, it would spit back a cryptic “413: The Connection Has Been Closed” error. It turns out that the […]