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Having an efficient shop layout can make such a big difference in your life - especially if you use your shop to make products that you sell. As I’m setting up my new commercial shop space I wanted to share 5 key principles that I’ve found help.
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Great video. I've work in manufacturing for 10 years. This was a mini course in lean manufacturing, "5 S" and some steps in the problem solving process. This can be applied to any work flow, business or hobby. Very good content and very easy to understand. Thanks for making it.
I'm a lean six sigma coach and you're spot on. He's induced many of the principles behind 5S here, without making 5S video!
It's certainly a lot more engaging than most of the corporaty 5S/6S videos!
Tips for tape measures:
#1 buy brightly colored tape measures.
#2 12'-16' is long enough for a shop.
#3 Take off the clip and screw on a cupped neodynium magnet.
#4 put them everywhere, I have them on all my tool boxes, refrigerators, and even air compressor
The magnets are a great idea. When I was a grad student (archaeology) we would spray paint our tape measures bright, neon orange and dip the handles of all our hand tools in neon orange plasti-dip. Never lost a tool in the field.
I named my tape measure "Houdini", because it's always escaping my shop.
When it comes to tape measures, it appears that the max length you would need, unless measuring long filaments for some reason, would be 6' or even 3'. In this case, get peel and stick tape measures at 3' or 6' and apply them to them edge of the work surface. That way it's always there and always deployed. The user won't waste time locating, opening and fumbling with the physical tape measure.
Just make sure that the measurements of your peel and stick match that of your tape measure!
Would suck to be 1/8th inch off!
this is the kind of stuff I live for. I've been doing systems, process, and efficiency for 10 years, haven't seen anyone else talk about this in terms of woodworking. love it!
This sums up process management and 5S of a shop in a nutshell.
Hey! My family has a custom manufacturing plant(we typically work with rubbers), but in our shipping department I hung up signs from our dropped ceiling for specific areas because sometimes my brain stops working. I also got dry erase magnetic labels to put on our adjustable shelves(which are the same as yours) to label what was on each shelf. It was better than labeling the boxes themselves because it always holds that boxes spot on the shelf AND I wasn't constantly touching the label. Just something I found helpful
Great tips!
@@ShopNation go even further. Place a part and not a label in front of the boxes. It s even easier to see
@@Newmeishu Unfortunately that works only with small parts. It is better to use labels and be consistent. Now, if you want to get fancy, then print a picture of the part on said label....
apps to create QR codes are easily, even freely available these days. link QR codes to rough (or exact) running inventory, picture etc, then use your phone to read the codes. this way you can view and read what should be in a particular tub on a shelf that is out of reach. pan over a whole shelf and it reads as you go.
@jeremyglover5541 tbh that doesnt seem that useful as an analog label. Fiddling with phone and reading labels of the screens seems like a lot of wasted effort. It could give +roi if there are a lot of small parts or if the locations change often
Seems like you could recycle those filament boxes for your outgoing shipments, as they look very similar in size to the white boxes you have staged. Seems like a cost savings + saving a visit to the recycling dumpster!
Flip them inside out for a fresh box.
Was just about to make a similar comment. Why throw something out only to buy it again?
Damn, Travis - that was a SMOOTH transition into an ad! THANK YOU for repping something that makes sense for your channel and your audience. This was probably the first ad that I didn't skip through, and I will probably use in the future. Well done.
I have been organizing my shop for 2 years now. I've spent the last couple of weeks putting a couple of metal cabinets and small to medium-sized plastic containers with lids, printing out labels, and putting them on the boxes so I know what's in them. I had no idea how much stuff I had laying around everywhere - to the point of "oh, I forgot I had those." But that has seriously helped.
One thing I made absolutely sure of with my shop, is power access. I'm never figuring out where to plug something in because I've set up power bars in strategic locations.
Totally! Great call out
2:59 Glad you touched on waste but there is more that could be done. While I understand it's more work, consider separating your waste. The plastic bags can likely get recycled at in store drop offs at grocery stores or department stores. The plastic from the filament spools, 3D printing scraps, and mis prints are all mainstream recyclable. Also, consider reusing the filament boxes to mail out parts. They look similarly sized to the ones you are buying and you get them already when ordering filament. I can't imagine a customer caring if it comes in a plain white box or a recycled filament box. Just some things to consider. Loved the video.
You will eventually get the second tape machine. It's inevitable, given that you actually need it at two widely spaced points in the packaging workflow.
But until you have a second tape machine, move the one you have to the middle of the packaging bench, to reduce the amount of walking back and forth from "all the way" to "halfway" when you need tape.
Duplicate tools at point of use is such a simple, yet powerful, concept. Cheaper, smaller tools are easy to duplicate, allowing duplicate safety glasses, tape measure, pencil, marking knife, and speed square in multiple locations near the big fixed tools and assembly areas. This works for everyday life, too; I have duplicate reading glasses at my desk, next to my sofa, and in the kitchen, so I never have to hunt for them. I even have duplicate remotes for my TV in the two locations where I use them most often. Bulkier or more expensive tools that are harder to duplicate can be located halfway between their points of use to minimize foot travel.
The whole point-of-use part is something I really understand. And I'm trying to implement in my new shop that Im building
as a hobby woodworker, i noticed the biggest time waste for me is getting tools out of storage and putting them back. my family and i always stored everything in the original cases and neatly stored all of those in shelves in the basement. so the start and end of every project was usually 15-30 minutes of running in and out of the basement and unpacking those cases. Sure, its stored nicely, i dont have to worry about rust and always know where everything is, but good god its annoying to have to waste 5 minutes to just get a tool for a couple of cuts.
now, i basically swapped to having all tools unpacked and openly accessible during the summer and neatly store them in the basement over the winter. it saved SO much time.
(I often watch TH-cam for background noise. This video autoplayed. So I'm new to your channel.) The thing with the filament and taking them out of the box really caught me just right. I think this is an area people overlook. Instead of trying to look pretty and all that, you need to be efficient. People seem to have a hard time understanding what you did. (By that, I mean people I have worked with in the last 20 years) It's work. Make it easy to access, and it don't have to be pretty. Take them out if the boxes and save space. That's a great tip that I hope your viewers take home. Your living room and dining room are meant to be pleasant to look at. Work is: time is money. Great video.
I give a course in manufacturing management for a furniture "trade school" (it works along high school here, but i digress). I'm seriously considering showing this to my students as a crash course to how to conceptualize a production line. Very well explained and straightforward
At shipping: Move the tape machine next to the terminal, use a tray to move the parts ordered and the box they're going into towards the terminal. The over-the-top in me would have a track with magnets at either end so the user can just fling the tray cart back to the other end when they're done.
Yep! Everything you say resonates with me. I’m just a hobby woodworker but simple things make life much easier - two sets of everything, one in the shed and another in the garage. I’ve moved my sharpening station next to my lathe so I don’t hack bits out of myself when moving gouges 🌞
Great video, my family has been working with manufacturing for close to 7 years now and the amount of small improvements that go unnoticed is crazy. Happy to see someone talking about these ideas in such a simple way.
Happy getting a new work shop
The tape measure hit hard. I just bought 6 Fastcap (they have fractions printed on them, so easy to use) 16' tape measures. Today I had to walk around for a few minutes to find ONE. Freaking things run off I tell you.
I'm in the middle of organizing my basement shop for better efficiency (it's a mess 😔). We are in the middle of turning a hobby into a small businesses, and I need to maximize my space, be organized, and more efficient.
I would love to see a video on packaging and shipping. Love your videos!
Get even a cheap thermal label printer... They are a huuuuuuge help if you don't have one!!
I bought your Bosch dust collector I love it. Keep making stuff for us woodworkers and I'll keep buying.
When I worked in and eventually ran the mailroom as my first fulltime job. We have a tape dispenser at every station. At the Busiest station we had two because we would have two people working at that one depending on what it was, we were sending out. Watching this video reminded me of those days. Man, I miss that job.
What you could do for the clear bins is place coloured paper in the front and back. That why you can adjust it without having to buy different colours
I have never discovered a channel that deserves a million + subs. Great video. Looks like I have found my next TH-cam binge.
Lacking tools at the point of use is a really great way to look at things when it comes to efficiency. Good thinking on that one. I definitely have multiples of certain tools around the shop and house, so I always have them at arms reach and it is some nice when I can just grab that square or pencil and not have to go hunt one down. The wife was also pretty happy when I transferred this logic to cleaning and bought a small bin for each bathroom and filled them with the same cleaning products. haha. You gotta get this new shop built so we can see the time lapse video of it happening and the finished product. The suspense is killing me
I used Fictiv to manufacture 2 parts i have been wanting to make, one to upgrade my table saw and a custom router plate. I have a Felder sliding table saw and it does not have a standard “T” slot in the slider. I had them make a 3 foot long aluminum adaptor to transform the oversized Felder slot to an American ¾ x 3/8 “T” slot. Second have a CRB7 router plate and it is made out of 1/4" ABS, total weak link in the system. I had them make one out of 10mm aluminum, now it is beasty. AWESOME!! One off custom CNC machined parts in 2 weeks is nuts. The process is so transparent. Upload 3D model out of SolidWorks with a PDF of the draft, select material and finish, BOOM instant quote. Comprehensive incoming quality doc’s at time of shipping, so there is no surprise what is coming. I definitely will be using these guys a bunch. I quoted the same parts at a local machine shop, they wanted 4x the $$$$ and 8 weeks to deliver. 330 bucks plus shipping.
Efficiency expert back again. To reduce your storage requirements for boxes, you may want to consider having a local box vendor manage your inventory. They can come in once (or even twice) a week, write down what you're low on, and deliver them the next week. This will likely be more expensive than getting them from ULine, but you should save significant space, significant purchasing time, and is a perfect example of vendor supplied Kanban (it also scales nicely as your volume increases). In addition, don't premake so many boxes at once. Go to a single piece flow model (ie assemble the box as part of your process for every kit). This will also save you tons of bench space because the only space you will need is limited to one kit. Your benches are expensive real estate. Also, consider the possibility that if you make 30 boxes at once and then figure out that there's something wrong with the entire batch, you've wasted all of that labour (we've had this happen at my work). If you use single piece flow, you will spot the defect with the first box you make.
Hard to tell from the video, but could you cut a notch in those plastic spools and sell them as extension cord or christmas light or rope storage spools? Or maybe bulk mail them back to the manufacturer for a rebate? $0 material cost items can be highly profitable!
Good ideas! The oem won’t take them unfortunately
I have found it more efficient to have my hand tools on me, stuff that I'm going to be using constantly: pen, marker, knife, tape measure, flashlight, etc. all get put in a pocket or clipped to a belt.
I know we all tend to put this stuff down and walk away, but that's just a habit you can break in the name of convenience. If you get yourself a belt to store this stuff on, that can be a physical reminder to put the item back on the belt.
Hopefully helpful suggestions.
1) tape measures are cheap, have at least one at every machine and maybe a couple at the shipping location. Make sure they are all good quality and the same manufacturer.
2) try putting bins on the roll around cart when moving parts from the print room to the shelves. You may be able to put 2 rows of bins on the shelves and FIFO the bins. One row on the shipping side and one on the finished manufacturing side.
3) definitely add a second tape dispenser at the label printer.
Shop is coming along awesome, great video with a ton of thought behind it, thanks for sharing
Love these types of videos, lines up well with the shop greatness concept!
I see that Bambu back there. I think you re gonna really like it. (prusa owner and now Bambu owner)
Great video. These are things that everyone that runs a small business manufacturing or crafting most anything needs to think about.
Well done. So much value.
Wow, a mind reader! When you started talking about Fictiv my mind was blown. I am printing out some battery holders and once completed needed something to short the battery posts together. I tried some fabricators in the area and online no luck. So I ended up reluctantly ordering shorting PCB boards which are taking forever to be delivered. I don't know if Fictiv will be able to fit my budget for my requirements but at least you have provided another avenue to get these shorting bars fabricated.
As always I wait with bated breath till I see the new video posted thank you much.
The is a brilliant youtube channel called "Fleets Wood Shop", the guy is incredibly talented and makes it a point of having the tools you want, at the station you work - it does mean he has duplicates of many hand tools, but I have personally learned that is wise. Take tape measures, theyre £5, but you often leave it somewhere you cant find it. Buy 10 of them, have one in every room and or every station, and you never need to carry one away.
Being someone that works in Data Entry and Data Analytics this video was extremely satisfying. Keep up the good work.
fantastic video, I'll be moving into a larger shop next year and this has enhanced my planning and thought process, thank you.
Great video Travis. Efficiency is so important, not only for profit but for enjoyment in the process.
You have a lot of standardized box sizes for incoming raw materials. Any chance you can save money on outgoing pkg materials by reusing any of those boxes?
Good practical and hands application of the principles of Lean. Enjoyable to see it in action.
Great video, well produced. 1 suggestion, move your tape machine to the middle of the shipping bench -- it will then be accessible from both the box assembly station and the label station.
You’re an insanely meticulous man. I’m very impressed!
TIMWOOD is very happy with this video.. this video scratched my efficiency itch.. Huge advocate for the Kan Ban system and utilizing 5S in my shop. Good stuff Travis!
Lots of great tips here, Travis, making this one of your best recent videos. Looking forward to more. Best of luck on your growing concern.
One of your most interesting videos. The Japanese have a term for waste, muda, and a process kaizen to eliminate it. Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma are also methods to eliminate waste, be be it physical waste or wasted steps and inefficient processes or energy use.
Thank you!
Organizing is just like every other skill…..practice,practice, practice❤
So cool to see quality and lean manufacturing principles applied! I was waiting to see if you would mentioned "muda" when talking about waste identification and bittlenecks. Glad to hear the magic "q" word at the end of the video (quality). Excellent video and keep pursuing shop greatness 😎👍!
Just what this guy needed to see and hear. Forever losing or misplacing something 😭
Definitely some food for thought here. We use a 2 car garage as a workshop, but wish we could figure out how to make it so that we could still park a car in it during storms. It's a work in progress. As for you, why not move your computer down to the tape station? Or just print the label first and then take it to the tape station?
Thank you for the info in this video
Good video on Lean Manufacturing and Gemba. You did a good job of making it simple and relevant to all of us. The new place looks great, btw!
One of those dust collectors for the 10" Bosch is probably mine 🤣
I've found that no matter how many tape measures, markets, etc I have, the all tend to eventually congregate in one place. So at the end of a day I've taken to allocating some time to clean up my work area; everything goes back in its assigned drawer, cubby, or whatever, ready for the next day.
Outstanding video! Love your new shop setup, should work great for you! Sending all my best!
These videos have no bearing on anything I need to learn. Nonetheless, they are entertaining as an exercise in watching someone bootstrap a modern mini-manufacturing related company who brings excellent communication skills and an engineering mindset to product design and manufacturing operations.
There’s always something you can learn, especially if you’re watching with the intent to learn and grow.
“Even the wisest mind has something yet to learn." - George Santayana
The fact that you said that shows your not even at step one! Look up Kaisan or Six Sigma. You can apply it to every aspect of your life!
For example: most people get up in the morning take a shower go back into their room put their clothes on than have breakfast and goto work.
Kaisan teaches us that it might be better to get your clothes first then go into your shower so you don't waste movement by going back into the bedroom.
3d printing efficiency -> Use anycubic ultrabase, and you can make the parts self release and start another job without any intervention. small boxes in front of the printer for the parts to collect to.
It's all about that temperature gradient, so set bed temp to 0C, and say 5-10minute wait, then print head just pushes the part of, rehead bed and next part starts.
Then all you need to do is go collect the removed parts, swap filament.
Very easy to setup.
Dude your videos are killer! I commented a little while back not believing something you said about the numbers of Prusa printers. Obviously I was dead wrong, it sounded so so high. It really opened my eyes to the size of the industry though and taught me a good lesson about running my mouth in the process haha. Keep up the good work man. Cheers
New shop is looking great! The layout is looking very streamlined! Wish I could come out and help assemble some parts for you!
Manufacturing Engineer here, popping in. I recognize that there is a lot to comment on in this video… I’d love to have a discussion on Kanban and implementation ideas for you. But for setting up work stations, tooling, and storage like you are here should really consider buying things that come with castors. Don’t like that work station there? Unplug power and move it. Don’t like the flow of this room, shut it down and move it around, power it back up and your running. Or if you need a big open space randomly for a project, unlock the wheels and you’re there. Just some food for thought.
All great ideas
100% someone moves my pencil and tape all the time 😂
Very informative video. Thanks, now it’s making me rethink layouts everywhere
Nice Kaizan talk without using the word… Excellent as usual!!!
Great video. Being in the process of moving my shop, I have to relook at placement and especially waste. I had offcuts piling up absolutely everywhere in the old shop and was always having to move around it or tripping over it.
I feel that the layout of my old shop was fairly well done and I applied a lot of different techniques from videos like yours and other woodworkers on youtube. And in my opinion, having things mobile is overrated. I started out with everything being mobile and eventually things just stayed where they were because I managed to optimize layout. The only things that ended up being moved around often were my small assembly tables ( I have 4 of them) and my table saw and planer. I ended up also having large bins for offcuts on casters to I could quickly move them outside onto the "firewood" pile and made an effort to not hold onto pieces too small. Those are killer!
Well done again on a great, informative video and as always I'll be keeping an eye out for what you do next. Good luck my friend!
Love watching you grow your business! You've got a ton of good ideas and looks like you're able to adapt quickly for any changes that come down the line
If you label the bin on both sides you could easily know what is in them.
You can also identify your min / max qty on the label. So at a glance you or someone else can stock your bins.
That is also a Lean manufacturing practice.
I was a process engineer and had a belt in six sigma.
Your shop is looking great and very efficient! Keep up the great job!
This was super helpful, I'm still in the process of cleaning up my work space so I will have a lot to keep in mind now! Thanks
I like seeing folks applying industrial engineering outside of factories. With regards to waste reduction, keep in mind that waste comes in non-material forms as well, the excess/unnecessary movement you mentioned for example. In my opinion, this is both the greatest strength and weakness of 3D printing: it's a very flexible all-in-one solution for rapid iterative prototyping with a small footprint, but they're a relatively slow method for production of any items with a finished design and potential alternative manufacturing methods.
Please do a video on those “sidio” crates!!! They look cool- helps sooth my ocd
They are so awesome
That was a great video. Workflow and equipment maintenance is sometimes overlooked. While watching, I had an idea of using one of our security cameras that does people traffic heat maps to give some hints to more efficiencies
You haven’t mentioned "5S" a single time, but it is exactly what you do. Thanks for the video
Have you reached out to the company that provides the spools and see if they would want to take them back or re-use them to give you a better deal and cut down on waste?
In relation to the need for tools where you use them, I like the Henry Ford quote “if you need a tool and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it but don’t have it.”
Wasted motion costs more than a well thought out tool purchase.
Great quote!
There's a good chance one of those Bosch Miter Saw dust ports are one of the ones I just received this week. I'm practically famous.
Travis, great video, as usual.
I can tell you from work experience and training (Six Sigma Black Belt here....as well as LEAN Specialist, Poke Yoke, Kan Ban and 5S) that equipment redundancy pays for itself quickly when it reduces/eliminates repetitive movement. The most expensive item in any shop is the person. The ideal factory has 2 employees... a guard dog and a person to feed the guard dog. Everything else is automated on maintenance contracts. Granted, that's not attainable but it showcases how people cost more than any redundancy equipment. Get a 2nd tape machine. Time yourself on travel from the end of the shipping table back to the start in order to seal 1 box. Factor that out and it's a done deal.... the 2nd tape machine will pay for itself quick. As for supply cost....it's the same regardless 1 machine or 2 machines.... the same amount of tape material is being used to complete a single shipment.
Tool availability... the only thing that might change going forward is if the same person is performing the same tasks at various locations.... then they'd need a tool belt. If it's multiple people.... then it's shadow box peg board time.
This man seriously has the smoothest ad transitions in the business.
haha!
OMG that sound 😍 I love when there is good sound on videos 🤗
Very well done!! Henry Ford would have learned a few things from you. Direct to the point considerations of time flow and organization is not only productive towards cash flow, but is less frustrating as well while making the shop experience more enjoyable.
Wasted time looking for those small tools is so true. I am trying to use my shop apron better, but still will set things down too often and not a minute later will spend minutes looking for it. Thanks for the video!
❤ excellent video …. Clear and quick ideas….
I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Toyota production system during your video. I teach Lean as a profession and we always teach the 7 deadly wastes from Toyota:
Inventory
Transportation
Overproduction
Waiting
Motion
Unnecessary processing
Defects
I use the acrostic: I TOW MUD to help drive the points home.
Lots of similarities to your points…
Get the second tape machine. It also doubles as a spare in case one goes down. Great video.
Critical Manufacturing Tools: where two is one and one is none.
Hahaha glad I'm not the only one missing the measuring tape every day!
Very good, informative, proactive and helpful video
"Cheers"
All of these techniques (and more) are called Industrial Engineering, hire one. A few days of gathering data on how you operate and an IE could optimize your entire job setup, re-engineer your workflow, optimize your cycle times, reduce your WIP, minimize your waste, design and setup inventory controls and reduce how much money you have tied up in stock materials...your cost to hire the IE would be recouped in weeks.
Oh, Imaginary Engineering? The guys walking around with stop watches and cameras on their head?
Great concepts!
Great video! I'm always misplacing my measuring tapes, so I have one in a designated place in each of my areas, as well as several metal 18" rulers (and increments drawn in lines on tables). The clear bins work for knowing inventory levels as well as different colors of items, and I would designate each tier space of inventory according to size dimensions of items and have separate locations of steels according the utility of each item. You have a very nice shop, and I love your 3D printer "farm"!
Another great vid. First thing that jumps out at me was the amount of spools considered waste? Are these not able to be recycle? Either for another project or even back to the vendor? Otherwise great tips on the organization so far.
Great video Travis lots of great points that I will use in setting up my new little shop
Amazing ideas. We don't spend enough time planning and doing self evaluation on our work/shop.
The new intro is cool bro. Great info as always.
The system you're looking for is called LEAN process improvement or CPI (continuous process improvement). If you are your only employee, it's a bit easier than say, a company of 50+ employees. Break down each process, find the bottlenecks and design solutions. Sometimes it helps to work backwards. Start at the shipment and work backwards. "There's a place for everything and everything has its place." Bin and batch small parts and assemblies to keep unnecessary movements down. Centralized supply points are good but if you store things near where they are used/consumed helps to keep unnecessary movements down too. Also, those ergonomic gym mats to keep your feet from fatigue will help save your back. Additionally, you could use stools. I absolutely love drop down power cord and drop down air fittings. You can get pressure regulators at the termination point to establish many different tool pressures if you end up making multiple trips to the compressor. Wheeled carts and dollies help so you don't get fatigued carrying stuff around the shop either. There's many little things that you can do to improve your processes.
I’m an engineer, definitely aware of what LEAN is
Tape guns work wonders. I'd tape machine the top with ur fancy label tape and just regular packing tape the bottom with a tape gun. But if u have the dough, another tape machine i suppose. Also, Pre taping the bottom of boxes and stacking them in themselves into a tower for large batch order work helps, ask me how i know.
Nice vid! Shadow boards are useful for tools at the point of use.
Depending on power desired , I'd suggest 1 of 3 powered paraglider engines. The atom 80, moster 185, or cosmos 300. All 3 are strung out 2 strokes.
There's a market for empty print spools. They get sold on eBay. Don't know why, but money is money :)