Journal
Thoughts, stories, and ideas on life and work from the shop floor.
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5S Was Never About the Red Tags
The red tag was never the point.
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Cycle Counting a Pattern Shop Without Stopping Production
Production Control doesn't care that you're mid-audit.
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Thirty Thousand Patterns, and Nobody Knows Where Half of Them Are
Undisturbed dust looks different from the kind that gets stirred up weekly.
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How to Read a Drawing If You Didn't Go to Engineering School
You don't need an engineering degree to read one.
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Designing a WMS for assets that don't move like inventory
Make the discipline easy to follow and hard to skip
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Designing a QMS for a pattern shop nobody thought needed one
A QMS alone doesn't prevent problems.
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The Core Box: The Pattern's Quiet Counterpart
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The Pattern: The Part That Never Gets Poured
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Shell Cores: Sand That Comes Pre-Loaded
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The Core: What Makes the Hollow Possible
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Investment Casting: Precision Bought One Wax Part at a Time
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No-Bake: Rigidity, On Purpose
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Green Sand: The Foundry's Workhorse