"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on March 26, 2014, 02:46:36 PMQuote from: Inkman996 on March 26, 2014, 02:35:16 PMYou know what our biggest bottle neck is and no machine on this earth could change it? That is space! We really are at our max for space, there is no room for any new machines and even if we bought a CTS and increased our production it would make no sense since our space is maxed out and pushing more orders through would be chaos.No plans to expand? We bought our building with expansion in mind. We have the back 6k sqft of our place rented currently. So we can expand into that if we like. We can also build another 90ft x the width of our building back if we need. If we fill up all of that, then we got bigger problems lol. Electician is coming in next week to rebalance our panel and see if we can practically install our second flash. Depending on what he says it might just be the push we need to expand.
Quote from: Inkman996 on March 26, 2014, 02:35:16 PMYou know what our biggest bottle neck is and no machine on this earth could change it? That is space! We really are at our max for space, there is no room for any new machines and even if we bought a CTS and increased our production it would make no sense since our space is maxed out and pushing more orders through would be chaos.No plans to expand? We bought our building with expansion in mind. We have the back 6k sqft of our place rented currently. So we can expand into that if we like. We can also build another 90ft x the width of our building back if we need. If we fill up all of that, then we got bigger problems lol.
You know what our biggest bottle neck is and no machine on this earth could change it? That is space! We really are at our max for space, there is no room for any new machines and even if we bought a CTS and increased our production it would make no sense since our space is maxed out and pushing more orders through would be chaos.
Scheduling nuances can make a huge difference in how productive your day is. There have been times in the past when we'd do a sleeve print in the morning then in the afternoon there was another sleeve print and with the old Centurian pallet changeovers were 30 minutes so it was even a bigger deal to space those two sleeve prints apart. The last year we've even started using the manual press for one color jobs and have even done multi-colored jobs on it which we would never do in the past. A one color on the manual can go pretty fast, 200/hr is you're doing it right, sometimes faster.
Also consider scheduling time and people. Staggering breaks and work hours to exploit capacity. Also who is best fit for a task or job order.
Quote from: tonypep on March 27, 2014, 08:12:37 AMAlso consider scheduling time and people. Staggering breaks and work hours to exploit capacity. Also who is best fit for a task or job order.this right here I think gets over looked too...we give everyone a shot at every position from the sign shop to screen, to embroidery and stick them where they fit best and enjoy it most...