Continuous Improvement

Great suggestions this week:

• Fix the damaged wheel on the Bander in Bldg #3
• Build a rack for pallet stickers in Bldg #3
• Rent some big fans to move air in Bldg #3
• Laser cut some custom wrenches with two sizes, 1 1/8″ & 11/16″ for regulator at each welder
• Make sure printers are full of ink to assure printed pages are fully readable for work orders on the shop floor
• Look for a new method of lifting heavy tube onto tube laser
• Fabricate tool holder for Bldg #2
• Standardized 9/16″ rubber shims for ACM panels
• Setup a follow up training program for control lines
• Create a better system to track vacation requests

Implemented suggestions this week:

• Re-organized material stored under breezway to protect materials from weather
• Started formal cross-training process for CNC programmers

The constant flow of improvements ideas is amazing!  AMF’s resolve is to keep our work away from cheap offshore labor. We want to do that by finding a better way, every day, to do our amazing work. Great job everyone!

Read the list attached!

Tons of improvements going on at AMF. Great ideas submitted and great ideas have been implemented. Shout out to everyone at AMF for the ideas and implementations…lets keep it going!

Ideas are coming in regularly and we are making improvements regularly. Keep them coming in and lets find 6 Minutes in every hour we can improve!

Another great week of new ideas and implemented ideas! Lets keep up the great work!

Saving six minutes for every hour is starting to happen at AMF. We have world class people–all providing wonderful suggestions which we are implementing regularly!

Thanks everyone! Love it!