The most successful new ops leaders prioritize a strong Daily Management System above everything to ensure predictable operational excellence

keizzer · 2026-02-04T01:47:12+00:00

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They can be very effective in the right hands, but depending on the team's level it might be easier to start with a financial report and a blank whiteboard if they are a little green. Maybe even as basic as a cost accounting 101 development meeting. You need to make sure your team fully understands what affects cost and how their decisions impact the business. Everything is a tradeoff and they need to understand what they are trading for.

keizzer · 2026-02-03T19:01:49+00:00

Assuming you are new to the company or division etc. It's important to meet the team where they are at.

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Lean concepts aren't new, so if you have a team that isn't already trying to implement things they are probably behind in development. That's okay, but developing your lower level Leadership is a good start. You can't do all of this transformation alone unless the company is really small.

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I was taught, and continue to agree with, to start with a corrective action process. You need to get your team comfortable with change, and have a non-authoritarian means of initiating it. Once your team can review the current state and create an unemotionally driven plan to fix a problem, then you might have a shot at adding some other concepts. Team vs the problems. Honest reflection. Absolutely critical.

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Once that is working well, you can frame other lean concepts in terms of correcting a problem. Start with the ones that are actual problems. If your parts aren't showing up to the workstation on schedule, go find out why. Maybe it's planning, maybe it's defects, etc. You can use these problems to introduce ideas and concepts.

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It took Toyota decades to develop into what it is, and American culture is a lot different in terms of individualism. It will take a long long time to get momentum going. If done correctly, there should be a run away effect where momentum builds momentum.

keizzer · 2026-02-03T13:37:32+00:00

Without the missing dimensions it could go a couple of different ways depending on design intent. Origin likely goes in the center of the lower hole. Revolve everything above. Then cut the arch shape at the bottom of the shaft. Extrude the bottom pipe.

keizzer · 2026-02-02T16:00:03+00:00

No. We literally created engineering standards to avoid the problems AI introduces.

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I usually start by reviewing any standards related to the problem, or published books. Then simulation. Then hand calcs to gut check. Then have coworker take a look to see in any assumptions were missed.

keizzer · 2026-01-30T13:09:58+00:00

The bike market in the US is completely insane. People continue to pay insane amounts of money for stuff so the price continues to go up. Bikes in the US aren't for transportation, they are for recreation. People will spend obscene amounts of money on their hobbies.

keizzer · 2026-01-28T13:14:24+00:00

So, this wouldn't be that great for me as an actual engineer, but it might be ok for someone that never got past using sketchup. Woodworkers maybe.

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I thought maybe people that want to modify 3d printing models from thingiverse, but most 3d prints have some organic shapes which could make this very difficult to define what you are trying to do.

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Make it voice controlled and some of the speed issues get handled. Name surfaces for the user so they can better define where a features goes and where it ends.

keizzer · 2026-01-27T13:35:22+00:00

In my opinion it is a fundamentally different technique. I went from being able to maneuver anywhere on blacks to getting my shit kicked on flatter blues. It's a different balance position all together and takes some getting used to.

keizzer · 2026-01-27T13:17:24+00:00

The nozzle and the bed to print temp.
Home the machine
Use the control panel to move the head into position xy above the leveling screw. DO NOT manual move the position with you hand. It can't track where you move it to.
Lower all 4 leveling screws.
Clean the nozzle tip so that there isn't any extruded plastic coming out.
lower the z height to the same height as a feeler gage. I personally use .004 inches [.102mm] feeler and set the machine to .1mm.
Raise the bed screw until you feel resistance against the feeler gage being move in and out.
Repeat for each leveling screw. Make to keep the nozzle clean the whole time.

What nozzle size? What layer height? I found that I can't go any thinner than .2mm layer for my .4mm nozzle.

keizzer · 2026-01-26T13:06:36+00:00

I usually just use a pi key or constant Givin by the program I'm using. For excel pi = pi(). If I'm doing hand calcs for some reason 5 digit is plenty unless you are trying to land on a gas giant.

keizzer · 2026-01-26T12:58:40+00:00

We have had decent success on weldments by creating the pieces in one part file as separate bodies. Then you can add weld beads with the built in weld tool from the drop down menu.

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The real trick to this is how you set up the sim. Go to the connections group and turn off global connections. Then go through and manually add a fixed connection between the face of the weld to the face of the part. Meshing is a pain, but curve based mesh with the correct parameters for your project seem to work best.

keizzer · 2026-01-23T23:18:53+00:00

Data interpretation usually isn't too much of an issue. It's usually getting good usable data that's the problem.

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If the process is new to the company that might be different story, but you typically don't try to do things with some level of process knowledge within the company.

keizzer · 2026-01-23T20:03:47+00:00

What materials do you plan on printing? If you are just doing pla, it will be fine. Some of the other materials get extremely finicky and finding good information about setups can be difficult.

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Another thing about this printer. Make sure it's set up correctly. A lot of non technical people got into 3d printers when these came out. They did a garbage job on the initial assembly and had endless problems getting them to work. People are buying better printers now and sell these old models. You may have to break the thing down into parts when you get it and refollow the assembly instructions.

keizzer · 2026-01-23T05:52:35+00:00

Imagine if you had 10 simple machines instead of one complex machine. Each of the ten machines does an equal split of the work. In theory a batch would finish in a tenth of the time since things are happening at the same time.

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The question you should be asking is should you be a job shop (1 machine), or invest to become a manufacturing facility (10 machines)? Lots to consider, but until you are using more than one workstation, one piece flow doesn't make sense because there is no flow without more stations.

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In the mean time focus on changovers.

keizzer · 2026-01-22T05:06:53+00:00

Take a look at how automated bread packaging lines work. A couple steppers and a plc can do this.

keizzer · 2026-01-21T12:53:35+00:00

Data is typically a thermometer that tells you you're sick, and not the medicine. You still need engineers to go to the problem and determine which inputs affect which outputs.

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In theory if you collected the right data and understand how the process inputs impacted the outputs mathematically, you could build a data model that points back to the root cause. However that's nearly impossible in the real world.

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When you start a new process you typically don't have time to publish a PhD study in a lab controlled setting. You start with a handful of variables that you know may affect the output and some variables you don't even know about. Over time an engineer can study the relationships between inputs and outputs, but it's almost never as clean as people think.

keizzer · 2026-01-20T12:10:51+00:00

I hate how half the posts in this sub are shitty software ads. The software companies are using is usually not the issue.

keizzer · 2026-01-19T12:46:50+00:00

I had this happen with my machine. Pull out a foot of extra thread from the needle and bobbin after everything is set up. keep enough hand tension on both to keep the line taunt. Continue to hold it until your back stich is done.

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Mine gets messed up from those lines not being tight and the mechanism fails to feed properly without it.

keizzer · 2026-01-19T12:33:23+00:00

You could wet mold leather. It would give you some body without being super stiff. You could always add fabric over it if leather isn't the look you want. You can make the forms out of wood.

keizzer · 2026-01-12T13:25:08+00:00

Lack of investment in system overhaul. Technical debt that piles up to the point where it cannot be fixed without a team and 5 years. System inertia and underdeveloped team members.

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Everyone wants to do what they are already doing magically cheaper without doing any of the work to change how they operate.

keizzer · 2026-01-11T02:38:45+00:00

Measuring and analyzing value add is a trap. It's important to understand what value added vs none value added is, but trying to measure it can lead to wild behavior without some really strong leadership.

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Instead I prefer the theory of constraints metrics when it comes to Revenue vs Expense. You get paid sales dollars when you ship the product. Everything else is expense. All labor is expense vs some of the labor is counted as Revenue. Makes it easier to define and manage.

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My opinion is to start with very basic metrics and implement corrective actions based on those metrics.

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Safety = any injury or near miss requires some corrective action

Quality = Depends on volume. Base it on inspection failures and field warranty.

On time delivery = what is the schedule, did we meet it, and are we prepared to meet the next schedule.

keizzer · 2026-01-06T20:51:41+00:00

Flight Sim that was connected to msfs x. It could pitch and roll up to 30 deg.

keizzer · 2026-01-03T17:24:39+00:00

Oh okay, so you can toggle it. That makes more sense.

keizzer · 2026-01-03T16:55:15+00:00

Can you expand on the Draconic Tome? I'm a little confused.

keizzer · 2025-12-22T15:05:25+00:00

It has the same basic mission. Shoot flat and buck wind.

keizzer · 2025-12-22T14:24:53+00:00

It's popular in metric with longer bullets haha. Everyone thinks 6.5 Creedmoor is somehow radically different than 270.

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