"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I think a lot of people when comparing set ups and tear downs are thinking one person only. Thats basically how i judge the speed of a process on our shop. My guy never has help unless I have time to get back there or our screen cleaner has time. It looks like you have two well coordinated employees with screens/inks/sq/fb's all set to go. The thing I do not get is how the STE is helping with your set up times discounting a little micro here and there that can happen when using film. For us when ever we have a mis-registration its a super fast micro and done. I am of course only talking about the time after screens are exposed.
Quote from: Inkman996 on May 07, 2014, 03:57:05 PMI think a lot of people when comparing set ups and tear downs are thinking one person only. Thats basically how i judge the speed of a process on our shop. My guy never has help unless I have time to get back there or our screen cleaner has time. It looks like you have two well coordinated employees with screens/inks/sq/fb's all set to go. The thing I do not get is how the STE is helping with your set up times discounting a little micro here and there that can happen when using film. For us when ever we have a mis-registration its a super fast micro and done. I am of course only talking about the time after screens are exposed.The small guy in video is me, and the other guy is my press op..... 95% of the jobs in here I setup as I float to help my press ops....... So yes we are tearing down and setting up with two guys which really helps compared to just having 1 operator....... The reason why I Image ste is helping us so much is that it's much more accurate then having a person tape a film on the screen/carrier sheet. For the last few days I swear we have not had to really even micro a screen, if we do it's such a small adjustment that the time it takes is a mute point. With vacuum draw down, films not being printed perfect, etc with regular tri lock we almost always had to do adjustments so that is where my shop is finding savings. You guys might be better at lining up films on screens, etc which makes your setups fast like this but we never saw it until dts was making our screens, lol..... We are seeing major savings in all areas of the shop because the i image and our quality is better then it ever has been compared to our previous dts.
All shops do things differently. We treat change overs like a pit stop. Everyone available jumps in and does something. If I have two sets of hands available, that's who we use. If there are five people that can help, that's how it's done. When a press stops for changeover, it's all hands on deck.