We are using FastCap’s ChopShop saw hood to save up clean up time at the miter saw station. The hood has saved us 10-15 minutes each day in clean up time and allows us to easily separate aluminum chips for recycling. In addition, the hood solved a minor safety problem; anyone walking behind the miter saw when […]
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If you are watching this video and thinking “this is obvious” then you are correct. Even though it was obvious, we just lived with it because everything was always a mad rush to fill orders. Sorted, Swept, and Standardized. Now if I could only get 8020 to ship the extrusions without wrapping each one in […]
Today I spent 8 minutes looking for a particular blueprint for one piece a kit. I never did find it… I had enough and spent 10 minutes making this holder. I will never have to spend time looking for these papers again!
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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The Saturn Series CNC Routers are the most advanced CNC router in their class today. We have created these routers to give you the performance of machines far more expensive at a price that you won’t believe. Why Buy a Saturn Series CNC Router? The Saturn CNC Routers have been developed with 2 criteria in mind: […]
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The Saturn Series CNC Routers are the most advanced CNC router in their class today. We have created these routers to give you the performance of machines far more expensive at a price that you won’t believe. Why Buy a Saturn Series CNC Router? The Saturn CNC Routers have been developed with 2 criteria in mind: […]
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The Fine Line Automation Saturn series CNC Routers are the most advanced CNC router in their class today. CNC router technology has advanced tremendously in the last decade and we have taken full advantage of it with our new Saturn Series routers to bring you awesome machines at the right price that can make all […]
The big question that we faced when starting lean was where the hell to start? I personally tend to complicate things. A lot of people insist you start with kaizen events, implement a pull system, and creating a Value Stream Map for your processes. That sounds ultra fancy and good, but for us it wasn’t the […]