Our Resort season is picking up right on schedule and now we begin to change gears.
My SP Production Supervisor are here each morning at 6:00. All of the jobs for the day have been prepped yesterday. We have a gazillion rolling racks for screens and each press has their own and can handle 40 screens. The days jobs (screens) are staged here along with the art folders. Garments all on carts well flagged and with white copy of paperwork. They are lined up along the dryers. Inks prepped last night with discharge inks ready to be activated.
We now begin to finalize the gameplan. The GTS has several one color jobs locked in and ready. Some namedrops for the manuals as well. I have found over the years that press ops are rather persnickety people and don't like having multi color jobs pre-set for them as they have their own little habits so we don't do that unless its an emergency. Each press, including the manuals has a work station with virtually everything they need to produce the days work without having an excuse to walk around looking for stuff.
We have found here, and elsewhere, that when this is done efficiently and correctly, that (besides the obvious reasons) we get more out of everyone when they come in and see this. It's a morale thing. When everyone is running around and changing the game at the last minute they get frustrated.
Now I am beginning to replicate this model for embroidery. It's go time indeed.
