AWESOME Lean Machine Shop Tour: Pierson Workholding!
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- Shop tour at Pierson Workholding - one of the best manufacturing examples I have seen of using LEAN to reduce stress and make money! THAT is success! Some AWESOME DIY automation too!
Thanks to Pierson for the tour! Check out their products at: www.piersonworkholding.com/
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i like how he says "we" and "co-workers" theres alot of respect there
Honestly this video just made me feel calm by watching it. As a small shop owner and operator it highlighted some really great methods of streamlining things. I've been trying to implement many of these practices piece by piece, each one makes a big difference to general efficiency and peace of mind.
This is TH-cam gold ! Thank you John for posting, and thank you Jay for talking us through your shop. Love your approach and attitude - keep it up. Those 28 minutes just flew by . . .
I'm just a hobby machinist in my garage but still like to keep it as tidy and organised as possible. Everything needs a place, lighting needs to be nice, I just don't get those dark grimy places that some machinists seem to live in. Well done and regards UK.
I've been trying to try do the ''3 things'' method. I saw it on Wranglerstar's channel. basically every time you walk by the bench or whatever pick up three things and put them in their designated place. I haven't really been doing this, need to starts.
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I really thought LEAN was just another fad, but seeing this guy make it work makes so much sense to me! Thanks for taking it out of the seminar and putting it into the real physical world. Thank you John for telling his story!
Very cool. I started on the lean journey in 1984 and it is actually so much fun. You are never done and that is part of the fun. There is always something to improve. You are always learning and being challenged in a good way. The two words that I hold dear are respect and value. It is all about finding the value and then adding to it. It come in layers and small increments but the payoff is huge in terms of your business, business family, you and your family. Best wishes on your own journey.
Jay, after 40 yrs. of doing it 'my way or the Hy-way' I look forward to implementing the process as our boss. Thank you.
Love how dialed in this guy is. He is clearly very intelligent and very well organized. Hardest part of lean is while in the midst of all the chaos of trying to get the day to day work done to carve out the time to do this stuff and have the foresight to know that there is a payoff if you do it.
That's why 3-Sing in the mornings is the best system. Building standards at the beginning of the day, before the chaos actually starts puts you in a particular mindset that will have you continuing that process throughout the day.
It's not something you implement or achieve overnight. Kaizen=continuous improvement. Not an instant fix to all that ails you. :)
briancnc We didn't achieve this overnight. Lean is simply a collection of small incremental improvements. Just start small like sweeping in the morning and creating a spot for just 1 tool every day.
Pierson Workholding would you name the robot system you didn't get on with? an inspirational setup you have...
The beauty of lean is that it doesn't have to applied to just machining parts or in the production sections of business. I've been slowly trying to implement lean at my job were we do PC and mobile repair. We still use and have to order parts as well schedule jobs to be accomplished; overall making sure all tasks are completed in a timely fashion. Yes it is a very OCD and pain of a process to setup and figure out in the beginning - But the standardization and forward-moving flow you receive at the end is totally worth the effort you've placed in to it. Great job setting up a very successful business with minimal employee overhead Pierson Workholding! ( I simply love to watch your videos NYC CNC because you give me such great ideas that are applicable in all sections of business; and they're never over the top; simple ideas to make day to day work life easier in the end! )
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I finally got rid of all my socks that aren't the standard one make/model. I eliminated pairing of socks from my laundry routine and now all socks are just one fairly small pile in the sock drawer. to go on my feet I just grab any two socks. when one sock gets a hole or gets lost its only one, not a pair that is lost.
indeed, lean isn't just for work :)
this is the kinda place i wanna work, small shop, incredibly organised.
Awesome embracing of lean. The key message/reality: You have to learn how to make Lean work for you - don't push a square peg into a round hole. Great Video. Thanks for sharing!
This video explains Lean better than the entire graduate level class on lean I took a few years ago. This should be used in every business model from the ground up.
Excellent execution! In my similar pursuit - I discovered that getting the people to buy into the plan can be the hardest part. This guy has done an amazing job of identifying the challenges, creating a solution, and getting the people to join in. Well done.
Not often ya see somebody presenting Lean that ya don't want to hit with a shovel, but here it is. Well done at every level, and an excellent shop tour to boot.
Jay was a huge help in getting our dice boxes from being manually cut on a router to be a fully CNC process. Funny thing is I never knew Jay was the owner, I though he was one of the sales staff. Super down to earth guy. Pierson makes great stuff. Can't recommend them highly enough.
oh and jay, i'm straight up stealing your white board. that is pure genius.
Hey Charlie! Good to hear from you and thanks for the kind words. And please, feel free to steal any of my ideas :)
This motivated me as a plant manager so much I want to sit on the beach and stare at a sunset thinking about how my life has just been successfully changed forever.
I know this is an older video, but there is still A LOT of very good information here.
When I was in charge of a group of routers, I came into it with people doing 6-8 setups a night and a complete clusterfuck disaster of tool and material storage/staging. Once I got everyone on board with it, we increased production by just over 30%. The most impressive was that we almost completely eliminated re-work. It was tough to get everyone to work together on it.
I can't believe I missed this video! I saw it come out and never found the time to watch. Truly amazing, especially that Job Routing Board. Such a lean shop, awesome!
This is probably my all time favorite video that you've done so far John!!! Huge thanks to Jay for sharing all of this info and inside look into his company! It really lays out an awesomely efficient way to run a business. Thanks again!!
We ordered the quick change speed pallet system today! Can't wait to get it in! Great pricing on all their products.
Following you and Pierson for a little while know but happened upon this older video while doing some research for my team. Still holds up incredibly well and man - Jay and his team get it at a really high level and clearly respect each other, themselves, and the process! SO AWESOME.
Great video, great shop, I love the Boss board!! Thanks John!
This is John at his best: learning from others and sharing to the rest. So inspiring in many ways. Thanks so much!
I watched this video, just mesmerized the whole time, and at the end of it I looked down and saw the 54 dislikes and I just can’t imagine the type of person who would dislike something as beautiful as this video and the two guys just loving their work and living their best life. First video I’ve seen of them and won’t be my last.
Please do more of these tours and videos! This is awesome! Give us more!
How can one person be this calm and smart? For Jay to established this effective system is amazing. He may or may not have done precisely everything, but still his leadership to get it all in place is what made it happen regardless. Really appreciative of him to share. Many thanks.
Didn't think that a Minimill and the Toolroom Mill would as effective as they were shown. Reasonably cheap machines. The features in the controller are overpriced though.
Awesome......congrats to you Pierson Workholding! So neat, so organized, so clean, so smart......thank you for the tour!
What a great setup and layout.
Thanks for sharing to both Jay and John!
I always clean in the morning, it honestly helps me start my day
That was a good intro for me into a real Lean shop! Thank you for all the help and great videos!
John thank you for doing these shop tours! I always learn something and they are well worth the time to sit and watch them start to end. I just looked over at my white board and already my gear are turing on what I need to do to make it more better! Please do many more!
So awesome to see this before I am doing any sort of serious production! Going to get setup to do it right from the start. Thanks Jay for sharing and John for putting it all together.
Pierson Workholding, your shop is so dialed! Thanks for doing the interview. I'm going to suggest at least two of these ideas to my boss once I get to work next. Thanks a ton!
Daaaaang!! That was extremely impressive! Thanks Jay and John!
I have used his pallet changer on my 1100 from day one. Ordered it before 1100 was delivered. Nice to see his operation. Best Line: "He is a job shop with one customer"
Man loving your tours. I live for your tour videos these days :)
That automation setup with the vacuum / finish stack is wicked! Real creative way to use the machine, I have never seen something like this before!
This was an amazing video! Thank you John and Jay. I love the work boards, it's organisation at it's peak, well done.
When the video finished, I was hooked and wished there was more 😁
Jay, nice job... "The Process is the Boss!". Thanks John, love the shop tours.
What a nice guy!! Thanks for the tour guys. We will certainly take on probably all those ideas lol :)
Another great tour, John!
Thanks for sharing
Nice organized little shop that little Doosan lathe is the jewel of the shop Jay really has a good head on his shoulders.
YES! I've been excited for this vid ever since I heard Friday's podcast.
Cool video John, very interesting to see how others work there business.
Fascinating! Thanks for showing this John!
Great video, thank you Jay for being so generous with what you've learned!!!!
Great to rewatch. Wow, makes upgrading to a VF2 seem right, Thanks for this awesome video. I wouldn't be where I am without your work!
I love the board idea at the end the most! This was great! Thanks!
Your comments at the end hit the nail on the head regarding lean, 5S and 6σ.
Just re-watched this one. Interesting and inspiring!
i want to like this many more times. thanks for taking the time to put this together John and cheers to Jay for sharing your awesomeness.
holy crap! I love that assembly and production board concept!!
What an awesome shop! Great to see the Lean implementation!
I love these tours. Thank you for taking time to make all the videos you do.
awesome video, love how organized he is.
Fantastic video. I love the video's you do which are more about the how to have a well run business. It's great that there are so many people like yourself and Jay who are willing to be so open about their businesses. Feeling inspired!
This is the stuff I absolutely live for. Thanks John.
thank you for this awesome video. and thank you to the guy that took us on the tour!
Now THAT is a well run american shop! Excellent concepts and execution and what a cool self-made business story. Extremely good job Jay and as always thanks for sharing the knowledge John.
he automates the entire process. I love it. the machines are doing all the work.
Zen, and the art of machine shop organizing.
This guy is like a Zen master. lol.
Been excited for this since you started talking about it in the podcast! On to the watching!
Great video! Between you two guys you could rule the world
YES!!! Great stuff. (and... I share your "love" for Paul Akers.)
Thanks for the great video. I love seeing how others get work done...especially when successful!
Definitely TH-cam Gold; this is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stuff ............. thanks John and thanks Pierson Workholding 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪
Well, hard to tell more good than has already been of this absolutely essential video... You guys are incredible and we owe you both so much for sharing so much value in such a condensed and entertaining way, and for free 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Oh, and if you ever want to make a little addition to go into just a little more detail about these boards at the end and the processes they embed... Please don't refrain! 😜
Thank you for this video, Thumbed up and added to favorites!!!
Omg this production board is so genius and yet simple
Excellent shop tour John!
Love it! Especially all the techniques they're using for organizing the workflow - I wish I could try some of that ;-)
THAT WAS FANATIC!!!!
One of the best videos I've seen in a long time! Gotta get in gear and get lean boys!
Great video. I love the organisation. And come up with a system for things and follow the system. Wow.
Awesome video! Thanks for making and posting this! I mean, really, thank you.
Great video, probably the best example I have seen of proper lean.
i think viewers are more envy than note-taking here lol, it's soooo much harder to implement a system like this in a regular job shop or other fast-changing manufacturing environment
having a great product line like Pierson's is hugely conducive to lean manufacturing activities and implementation
not to disparage the ingenuity here at all though, Jay is clearly an extremely intelligent machinist and shop engineer...those part picker and affordable crane systems are just amazing
very organised and a lot of thought has gone into their setup, I like it.
Lean, 5S Kaizan, Continuous Improvement... The hardest thing about it is getting people to adhere to it or change their ways. Seeing this place, having been Lean oriented from the get-go, is pretty damn impressive. Cleaner and more coordinated than some Aerospace and Nuclear shops I've worked in. That cleaning in the morning part is nice too, and makes sense. Check your levels and cutters and get things prepped for the day while you have your coffee and wake up.
Fantastic, thank you for another inspirational video.
Without question this is my favorite video I've ever seen on TH-cam. I know a lot of people have been in this position, but as a sole proprieter manufacturing multiple products and lines TIME is the single most expensive resource. During the day I have my lathe cutting blanks, TM2P finishing back end on one side and doing final engraving on the other side, OM2A machining the the main side of the part, heat treating oven cycling, tempering oven cycling, tumbler cycling, sandblasting 200 parts a day, inspecting, C02 laser cutting the packaging, packaging the parts, shipping, receiving, purchasing, website listing/modding/inventory update, replying to hundreds of messages/emails/FB msg/FB page msg/FB Group MSG, Designing the parts, programming no less than 20 parts a day, test running, then take a nap at the 12 hour mark to make it a full 18 hours 5 days, and 12 hour days on the weekends. That's all just ONE product line... the other is 6 years old and has a lot more walk away. SOOOOO many things in this video I made notes on and will look into incorporating. That board at the end was like seeing the pearly gates open. I am CONSTANTLY paying rush shipping for one of the hundreds of tooling, parts, hardware, components that I order late, or (much more often) my vendor is out of stock (like Maritool chamfer mills I order 10 double end at a time was out this week). SO MUCH GOOD STUFF in this video. I am seriously going to look into that automated part loading system and will be calling the Doosan rep now that I have seen that 220SYL to replace my aging twin turret live tool lathe.
Thank you John
Brian Carmicheal Thanks for the kind words and glad to be an inspiration. It almost sounds like you might need an/another employee! :)
Couldn't agree more! I have a guy that's been doing the sandblasting full time since Dec.... Called out all week last week. Worked yesterday... no show today. Been getting worse and worse ever since he was part time/occasional he was pretty flaky but I thought it would get better when he left his other job and went full time here last month. Sad thing is a lot of people would do it for min wage and I started him at $12 and told him it'll work up to $20 by the time he can run every machine in the shop. Thinking I need to start his replacement at $10 so I can give him an early raise for inspiration or hire an operator at $15 that will hate sitting and sandblasting 70% of the time. Employing is tough.
Hey Brian, any need for ISO 20 holders? I have a bunch of barely used technics from my short time using an OM2A at uilabs. Let me know I can make you a sweet deal on them.
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Another great tour. Thanks.
Thank you both for this video. That Doosan lathe reminds me of a HAAS SL10. Kanban is a great idea
You hit the nail on the head with your comment about why some people have been turned off of lean. I worked in a large tier 1 producer for the Auto industry and the way they implemented Kaizen and the rest just added extra work without improving anything. I have to admit that I still hate the japanese terms for all the stuff, mainly because I associate it with the stupid way it was implemented the first place I encountered them.
Everything shown in this video seems well implemented and makes life easier for everyone involved. A major part of this boils down to getting rid of clutter, a place for everything and everything in its place.
This is a really informative conversation. I hope NYC does a few more of these videos of other shops.
Great tour! Inspiring.
haha. fun to see you guys "geek out" on this stuff.
Awesome Video - John - Thanks for sharing!
Fantastically run operation! My favorite tour video by far John. +nyccnc
That process and production board is a great idea!
Way cool. I'm going to share this with our shop guys. And their boss.
Thanks,
John
Awesome video showing some interesting examples of lean.
this is such a great video!!
This is very impressive. Congratulations!!
Lean makes sense when used sensibly. This is the perfect example of that process....trouble is that many companies have been using it as a tool to beat their people over the head with and make short sighted decisions based on it. Managerial motivation and experience are a huge key to making it work.
Great shop and tour! Lots to be learned from this.
devore1776 Lean for profit = failure. Lean for people = success.
Pierson Workholding truer words rarely stated!
One of the problems with lean is that companies don't understand what it is. They think lean = trim the fat = spend as little as possible and pay crap wages. They keep maintenance nightmare machines from the early 90s, never upgrade their tooling technologies, never update their machining strategies, never upgrade their programming technologies and rather than hiring clever people who can help improve the process...they simply standardize the process with no plans to improve. Then they hire people who will work for bottom dollar to push the green button. Oh, and the biggest sin of all is that they think employee downtime is costing them money so they'll intentionally avoid doing things like deburring in the machine so the employee will look busy during the cycle. Even at the expense of spindle down time which is MUCH more costly. They'll build cheap fixtures which take far too long to setup and they skimp on tools and techniques that make setups faster.
That's not lean manufacturing...that's just plain stupidity. Invest in the equipment, tooling, software, etc you need to get the job done efficiently. Streamline your process to reduce spindle downtime. Keep things organized and clean. Keep materials and tools close to where they're used (The machines don't move...why not store raw materials near them?). Take care of your employees and they will gladly take care of you.
Kenneth Higley Yes most companies don't know what it means. In a nutshell, Lean is the ability to see and eliminate waste (8 wastes to be exact) through continual improvement.
Kenneth Higley Those businesses will eventually die
THIS.
If good ideas are brought to management they see it as a threat.
Spot on !!
I learn lean now in manufacturing system class..your video really great and the company was very awesome😊👍👍
wow, brilliant solutions, love it
great video, awesome little shop!
great tour lots of good info and ideas to add to my shop👍
Nice! Thanks John
really good work practices, love it:)