Originally Posted by
Bert Kemp
I use to work in a factory, I setup metal stamping press's anything from a 5 ton to a 200 ton press. There were literally 100's of dies that went into these press's to stamp parts. These dies weighed anywhere from 75# to several tons and when a job was finished they would take out the dies and put them anywhere, on a rack behind the press, on the floor in a warehouse anywhere they felt like dropping them. Then come time to set that job up again you could spend hours walking around looking for that die, this is no BS I've search as much a 3 hours looking for dies thats almost half a shift of no production.Sure the managers would say they were going to develop a system but it never happened in 30s odd years i know of. How stupid is that. How many hours of lost time per day that place went thru is beyond imagination. This was not a small company has thousands of employees.
I bet you didn't have a chair to sit in all day either, did you Bert? As my days as a machinist for 25 years, I don't recall too many positions on the shop floor that has chairs either. I don't think that's as abnormal as one might think. I've never seen a mechanic that didn't stand up all day, a machinist, a grocery store clerk, etc. Lot's of people stand up all day at work.
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