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Monday, April 14, 2008

Our Kaizen event or evento de kaizen

our last kaizen event was focused particularity around a unit 4 cabinet. What we took from it was that we will build face frames per spec. and then the same person who builds the face frame would obtain the box dimensions from the face frame thus eliminating any head scratching about the box size to the box fabricator or the engineering people. It fits in with my vision of the face frames being made on one place by a bench man and the boxes being fabricated by the novices. Before I was having the novices get the box dimensions from the shop drawings. It seemed like good sense to have the novices studying the plan's getting specs. And then the box fabricators(novice) would assemble the face frame to the box. That leaves the bench man building face frame and doors and drawer fronts, and every thing else with the cabinet. Now suppose another one of our hall of famers comes back to work with us, Jose. How will he fit in with type of work environment. well he'd be a bench man building face frames, doors, and moldings, along with side panels, and the such. I'd prefer to see one of the novices building the boxes and assembling the two. But the bench man then needs to work with the cabinet to fit any doors drawers or misc. parts. So perhaps it's better to have the bench man request the box be built in a short turn around time. Or we do what Sondu said which is set the face frame aside until the box built. O.K. then the face frame gets built per spec. the box gets built by the novice, the bench man then assembles the box and the face frame. the cabinet gets prepared while doors and drawer fronts are fabricated.

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