Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
How did you get your wife to do the printing? I have to learn this trick.
OMG Tony...........someone who "gets it" when it comes to running a mid-size shop!! thanks for your insight!! One of the best posts I have ever seen on any board anywhere.I have one of these shops and I think I think the same way as you. I have 50 employees, 3 autos, 2 shifts, embroidery, 2 buildings, screen departments, art departments, shipping and recieving, office staff, production managers......I have one word for it all......STAGING. No matter how you sub-devide it, the word is staging. All your have to say here in these posts are right to the point. Thanks for showing this to everyone. I have just one question......what scheduling software did you use to make the changeover? I need to make that change, it is one of my log jams. I have a good piece of software but our growing pains are requiring something better to carry us into the future.
Our biggest challenge is lack of extra hands. So its often hard to shift gears from embroidery to screen print to design all in the same day often. When possible we schedule days all embroidery, or all screen print or all design and so on. But its tough at times to do that. So thats our biggest struggle. We are just two people so it is what it is I guess. I think a lot of our issues would go away with another employee and I struggle often about when to do that. Gut keeps telling me not yet so I listen.
Quote from: mk162 on July 27, 2011, 09:43:19 AMHow did you get your wife to do the printing? I have to learn this trick.You need a wife that has an eye for detail, mine does not... nor the patients. Her motto is "as long as the "paint" is on there". LOL. A real bummer.