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Offline Inkworks

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Re: 15 jobs one auto one day
« Reply #30 on: April 21, 2014, 06:35:24 PM »
I had the revelation when one of my employees mentioned I always underestimated job times by about the same percentage.  8)
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Re: 15 jobs one auto one day
« Reply #31 on: April 21, 2014, 07:05:08 PM »
Tony,
What are your parameters for a complete job?  Reason I ask is that with a full crew I calculated 4.5 - 6 hours to do the 15 1 color 48 piece runs.

That's cause you're doing it on paper.  The paper version and actual production version very rarely match up.  I've spent years comparing the two and trying to have a baseline of paper numbers that will actually translate into real production output.
That was my worst case time.  Let's do the math.
1 day = 480 minutes of production.
5 minutes per screen x 15 screens = 75 minutes.
480 - 75 = 405.
5 shirts per minute = 10 minutes per job print time.
10 x 15 = 150 minutes
150 + 75 = 225 minutes.
480 - 225 = 255 minutes
255 / 60 = 3 hours 45 minutes left over.

These are based on some of the numbers I was required to do at Starter Sportswear.
The differences were I was allowed 10 minutes per screen but I had to do 12 shirts per minute if I was just printing.  This was to make 100% of my hourly rate.  Any faster on either of these parameters got me that 5 more of my base rate.  My crew routinely took out 8 screens, squeegees, and flood bars and set up 8 more of each and was printing in 20 minutes.  This put me 1 hour ahead for every set up.  This was pre reggie system and done by eye.  I know what can be done and thought I was being fair in my question.  Even doubling the set up to 10 minutes per screen leaves you with 2 hours and 30 minutes left over.
I am not putting this down.  15 jobs on 1 press is impressive just wondering if there was anything else in the definition of "Job" that I was missing.
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Re: 15 jobs one auto one day
« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2014, 07:10:41 PM »
1 caveat to the above post.  At Starter we had 4 people per press.  Catcher.  Loader.  Un-loader. Third man
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Re: 15 jobs one auto one day
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2014, 08:58:31 AM »
Most were two sided. And we can sometimes spend 10 min on getting two sigs on every order. Again its resort so its all namedropped, sometimes with lat/long etc.

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Re: 15 jobs one auto one day
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2014, 09:01:54 AM »
Most were two sided. And we can sometimes spend 10 min on getting two sigs on every order. Again its resort so its all namedropped, sometimes with lat/long etc.
OK so actual 96 piece runs for the most part.  Cool.  Well done!!!!!!  I knew there was something I was missing.  Again well done!!!!
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