This is RUclips 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.
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.
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!
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.
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! )
GimmilFactory 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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9:15 As to Jay's comment about Dovetailing a "0" Op. I see the logic of it. Many of the Dovetail fixtures I see, are rather slim in design. You can typically run a larger part on smaller machines, and or use shorter tools, and feed faster. Which make up for lost time making the dovetail. It really comes to a simple scenario for a particular part whether or not if the machine time can be improved that beats the time to make the dovetail in the first place. If it technically doesn't, than that Pre- Op can be nixed.
Any tips for sourcing components at reasonable prices dispite limited competition? I have a bulk supplier that would not even go below online shop prices when I want to buy many components for production. I could buy them on Alibaba but I have no quality assurance there.
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"
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!
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.
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.
I'm so glad I can't sleep right now. This info is gold.
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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! 😜
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 😁
Very, very interesting, John. I would love to introduce this into the shop I work at. It's difficult to do so in job shop work, but... you have to cut through the chaos somehow. Your own shop is an excellent example of this.
The job shop I work in has about 80 years (WW2) of accumulation in it and we only recently started sifting through it. I found just taking a moment to dig through a box and say, "eh, not needed" is incredibly useful. Then when something is useful, slap a quick tag on it and move on. Nothing elegant but something that helps me refer back to it later when I have time.
Donald Moore I hear you there Donald. We have that problem as well. A lot of it stems from our owner. Old school master machinist who can make everything out of anything... and keeps what he made forever! Haha.
I honestly wish I knew what the full scope of the issue was at our company but whenever I feel like I really get it I learn something new.. (I have only been there a 3 years) It seems like everyone is halfway in and halfway out as we start to grow and modernize but no one wants to commit the time. Granted, we jumped from punch cards and carbon copies to computer stations that run everything, well sort of. It does make everyday a bit more interesting though!
It reminds me more of an electronics assembly line than a machine shop. Much better looking place to work than the average shop, that chaos wears on a guy.
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
Wow, amazing video. Lean is great, when you use it be productive and don't go over. Hmmmm, 3 S instead of 5 S, great idea. I like the work flow and Jay seems like an awesome person to work with or for. Super creative. Just amazing.
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.
Quite fascinating, love the cleaning at the start of the day and the simple reordering process. However is this type of system principally appropriate to a maunufacturing production process rather than a job shop environment? I do see though many ideas that would benefit many situations such as tool location etc.
Absolutely would work in a job shop... We're a job shop but with just one customer. :) It wasn't covered, but we practice lean in our front office too and if it works there, it'll work anywhere.
Awesome shop tour @Pierson Workholding and NYC CNC! You have earned yourself a customer from this. I have always embraced 5S, but must of been under a rock because I never heard of kanban... Will you have an option for a pallet mounted vise any time soon?
I was looking on their website earlier this week, and they mentioned that some of their customers do that. the customer milled the pallet fixture so they could secure the vises to the pallet. might not hurt to Email Jay and see what he thinks about making that option available direct through pierson
This is RUclips 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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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.
i like how he says "we" and "co-workers" theres alot of respect there
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!
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! )
GimmilFactory
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
this is the kinda place i wanna work, small shop, incredibly organised.
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!
Nice organized little shop that little Doosan lathe is the jewel of the shop Jay really has a good head on his shoulders.
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.
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.
This is John at his best: learning from others and sharing to the rest. So inspiring in many ways. Thanks so much!
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.
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 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.
Your comments at the end hit the nail on the head regarding lean, 5S and 6σ.
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!
Please do more of these tours and videos! This is awesome! Give us more!
We ordered the quick change speed pallet system today! Can't wait to get it in! Great pricing on all their products.
I always clean in the morning, it honestly helps me start my day
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!!
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!
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!
I love the board idea at the end the most! This was great! Thanks!
Awesome......congrats to you Pierson Workholding! So neat, so organized, so clean, so smart......thank you for the tour!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
That was a good intro for me into a real Lean shop! Thank you for all the help and great videos!
Just re-watched this one. Interesting and inspiring!
Wealth of knowledge here, thanks guys!
Great video! Between you two guys you could rule the world
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.
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.
That process and production board is a great idea!
Great video, great shop, I love the Boss board!! Thanks John!
Man loving your tours. I live for your tour videos these days :)
9:15 As to Jay's comment about Dovetailing a "0" Op. I see the logic of it.
Many of the Dovetail fixtures I see, are rather slim in design. You can typically run a larger part on smaller machines, and or use shorter tools, and feed faster. Which make up for lost time making the dovetail. It really comes to a simple scenario for a particular part whether or not if the machine time can be improved that beats the time to make the dovetail in the first place. If it technically doesn't, than that Pre- Op can be nixed.
Great video, probably the best example I have seen of proper lean.
I love these tours. Thank you for taking time to make all the videos you do.
One of the best videos I've seen in a long time! Gotta get in gear and get lean boys!
Any tips for sourcing components at reasonable prices dispite limited competition? I have a bulk supplier that would not even go below online shop prices when I want to buy many components for production. I could buy them on Alibaba but I have no quality assurance there.
You can absolutely create QA agreements with Alibaba suppliers.
Been excited for this since you started talking about it in the podcast! On to the watching!
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!
This is a really informative conversation. I hope NYC does a few more of these videos of other shops.
Thank you both for this video. That Doosan lathe reminds me of a HAAS SL10. Kanban is a great idea
What a great setup and layout.
Thanks for sharing to both 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"
Daaaaang!! That was extremely impressive! Thanks Jay and John!
Great video. I love the organisation. And come up with a system for things and follow the system. Wow.
Cool video John, very interesting to see how others work there business.
very organised and a lot of thought has gone into their setup, I like it.
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!
Fascinating! Thanks for showing this John!
What an awesome shop! Great to see the Lean implementation!
thank you for this awesome video. and thank you to the guy that took us on the tour!
holy crap! I love that assembly and production board concept!!
I love the shop and the vid. I am curious how big each shop section was.
Omg this production board is so genius and yet simple
awesome video, love how organized he is.
What a nice guy!! Thanks for the tour guys. We will certainly take on probably all those ideas lol :)
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!
Zen, and the art of machine shop organizing.
This guy is like a Zen master. lol.
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'm so glad I can't sleep right now. This info is gold.
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! 😜
Awesome video showing some interesting examples of lean.
Excellent shop tour John!
Great video, thank you Jay for being so generous with what you've learned!!!!
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 😁
Very, very interesting, John. I would love to introduce this into the shop I work at. It's difficult to do so in job shop work, but... you have to cut through the chaos somehow. Your own shop is an excellent example of this.
The job shop I work in has about 80 years (WW2) of accumulation in it and we only recently started sifting through it. I found just taking a moment to dig through a box and say, "eh, not needed" is incredibly useful. Then when something is useful, slap a quick tag on it and move on. Nothing elegant but something that helps me refer back to it later when I have time.
Donald Moore I hear you there Donald. We have that problem as well. A lot of it stems from our owner. Old school master machinist who can make everything out of anything... and keeps what he made forever! Haha.
I honestly wish I knew what the full scope of the issue was at our company but whenever I feel like I really get it I learn something new.. (I have only been there a 3 years) It seems like everyone is halfway in and halfway out as we start to grow and modernize but no one wants to commit the time. Granted, we jumped from punch cards and carbon copies to computer stations that run everything, well sort of. It does make everyday a bit more interesting though!
This place is cool, his employees are fortunate to have such a well organized shop, opportunitys to work in shops like this are few and far.
It reminds me more of an electronics assembly line than a machine shop. Much better looking place to work than the average shop, that chaos wears on a guy.
YES! I've been excited for this vid ever since I heard Friday's podcast.
YES!!! Great stuff. (and... I share your "love" for Paul Akers.)
This is the stuff I absolutely live for. Thanks John.
Love it! Especially all the techniques they're using for organizing the workflow - I wish I could try some of that ;-)
Fantastically run operation! My favorite tour video by far John. +nyccnc
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
Wow, amazing video. Lean is great, when you use it be productive and don't go over. Hmmmm, 3 S instead of 5 S, great idea.
I like the work flow and Jay seems like an awesome person to work with or for. Super creative. Just amazing.
Thanks for the great video. I love seeing how others get work done...especially when successful!
Definitely RUclips Gold; this is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stuff ............. thanks John and thanks Pierson Workholding 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪
Another great tour, John!
Thanks for sharing
THAT WAS FANATIC!!!!
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.
Have you try QR code’s to reorder supplies. Scan the code on your computer and it will take to the site to reorder
Great video. The people, process, product are top notch. 👍
We're big fans of Marcus Lemonis too!
Awesome video! Thanks for making and posting this! I mean, really, thank you.
Funny to see you guys talk about all the principles (and terms in Japanese) we do at Toyota.
thank u NYC and shop too, so many useful information development
rad shop tour! definitely helps one support Pierson more 🙃🙃🙃
Quite fascinating, love the cleaning at the start of the day and the simple reordering process. However is this type of system principally appropriate to a maunufacturing production process rather than a job shop environment? I do see though many ideas that would benefit many situations such as tool location etc.
Absolutely would work in a job shop... We're a job shop but with just one customer. :) It wasn't covered, but we practice lean in our front office too and if it works there, it'll work anywhere.
Awesome shop tour @Pierson Workholding and NYC CNC! You have earned yourself a customer from this. I have always embraced 5S, but must of been under a rock because I never heard of kanban...
Will you have an option for a pallet mounted vise any time soon?
I was looking on their website earlier this week, and they mentioned that some of their customers do that. the customer milled the pallet fixture so they could secure the vises to the pallet. might not hurt to Email Jay and see what he thinks about making that option available direct through pierson
Fantastic, thank you for another inspirational video.
I learn lean now in manufacturing system class..your video really great and the company was very awesome😊👍👍