Need Tool Room Procedures
Need Tool Room Procedures
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I need to write up procedures for a tool room. Do any of you have something already created that I can modify to my purpose? It's a tool room for screw machines.
Thanks.
Jenny B.
Thanks.
Jenny B.





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Raul
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I agree, it needs to be simple, but do you think things like check lists can help standardize procedures for training/knowledge sharing?
Thanks for the comments.
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What is your company going to do for me to reward me for training these younger machinists? They are paid the same as I am, so they must know everything I do.
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"Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."
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Underneath, someone had scrawled:
'I'm not telling you.'
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What would motivate you to share your knowlege? Recognition, monetary rewards, time-off?
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The funnier part of this is that gbent will get a job in MacD to get money to buy what his old company used to manufacture.
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Give them the drawing, and they'll make it. And if they can't, they'll be smart enough to come and ask the right questions. (Which where I usually look blank, and can't answer them either..
What is a good idea though, especialy if you're in a big company, is some way of automating the sign off procedure. A simple way is a barcode or similar on teh works instruction which they zap when they've finished. Otherwise you will occasionally find yourself sitting around waiting for a job that was finished a fortnight ago, and is slowly going rusty waiting for you to go and get it.
Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
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Have them write the procedures. It can be is simple as - this is what we do if this happens. If you have to translate what they say to look nice or add something to comply with some standard make sure they're happy with what you've done to 'their' procedures and sign off on it.
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Let's say for example we are going to make a form tool for a 6 spindle bar machine.
This is an advanced job for a tool maker. We could document the procedure all day long but here's a news flash:
NOONE without the experience will be able to make this..
Just one TINY part of this is the precision grinding. In grinding, your ears are nearly as important as your eyes.
Let's see anyone "document" that.......
Ok youngun/time-study guys.....flame away
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Of course, written procedures were posted, The paperwork is duly filled out for every batch of gundrills that goes thru the crib. On paper, this is fine system which uses otherwise under-occupied people to accomplish a necessary service.
The one little factor that is lacking is that our tool crib people have zero knowledge of cutting tool geometry or metal-working basics.
The problem is that our 56 gundrill spindles don't understand paperwork and procedure so they just won't go along with running improperly sharpened gundrills. Obviously, these spindles are going to need retraining to understand that within our plant the laws of physics no longer apply
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Sounds like the people attempting to sharpen drills are NOT skilled tool makers, merely tool room attendants.
2 things will work:
1. Hire one
2. Purchase a drill sharpening jig..They are not terribly expensive and anyone can run one with minimal training.