Shop Maintainance

[Tapoore]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Another rule to drill into their heads is that when you are done using a tool, you put it back in the proper place.

Very true. The 30 sec used to put away a tool can save the 10-15 min that can be wasted looking for a missing tool.

[Qbranch]

Our bolt drawer is labeled "Drawer of Despair" if that gives you any idea...

We've tried many times to clean up our act... but the shop seems to be perennially dirty. If anyone has any ideas... I welcome them!

-q

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Our bolt drawer is labeled "Drawer of Despair" if that gives you any idea...

We've tried many times to clean up our act... but the shop seems to be perennially dirty. If anyone has any ideas... I welcome them!

-q

Both 228 and 190 have team meetings where the only objective is to have every team member clean the entire shop for the entire meeting. Have the team break up into subgroups, and have each one responsible for a specific area. That involves resorting everything, putting all that random hardware back in its proper spot, going through the scrap bins and getting rid of anything that's unusable, making lists of what materials the team is low on to restock, etc.

[danshaffer]

We just spent two full meetings cleaning our shop. We got all of our junk out of the materials rack, swept the floor (gasp!), and cleared all of the junk off of our tables. We moved around all of the tools, doubled the work space. It is probably the best thing we ever did. Still waiting for a bin system to organize projects and tools, but this is quite an impressive feat. It feels like we moved our wall back five feet.
But I'd love to hear if anyone has a good tool organization system.
Thx!