DFW BS Thread : ********NEW MEET!! CHECK POST #1*******

I'll be there!

 

Yes sir. Hired on back in March!

 

Loving it out there? I hear it's fully automated and becoming popular...

 

Makes three in this thread. I'm jealous now.

 

Fucking love it dude. Mike has such a vision for the company. Such a bad ass dude to work with. I have been tossing around the idea of doing a Toyota meet there one day for all the locals to come tour it. I am currently in the process of getting my engineering group from UTA to tour it as well. What we are trying to accomplish at SmartCap is already more advanced than what we are leaning in some of my industrial engineering courses hahaha

 

Mike is epic to work for/with. I have been working full time in various industries for 17 years now and I've never met a leader like him. I can 100% say I've found a place to retire at! Hahaha only 30 more years to go.

 

You work at keystone or something?

 

I'm extremely happy with the one I got, it's a solid replacement for the GFC to shed weight. My only complaint is the brackets don't have the adjustability to deal with my shorter bedrails, but a hacksaw and a file mostly fixed that.

 

Didn’t know you had one too.

Update that build/camping thread!

 

Shit! I may have been there when your toured then. I'm the one the runs the press brakes.

 

Y'all definitely have my interest. The caps themselves look great/functional, I dig the modularity vs my fiberglass that I can't do anything to, and it's 11 min from my house.

Do y'all have any machined components or is it all sheet metal?

If that tour option opens up, I'd love to go.

 

Man, count me in too, if they ever offer a public open house.

My softopper is starting to show it's abuse age. Its due for another round of window replacements and a general deep clean, but I could be sold on a different idea.

 

It just makes sense though.

You hear so much talk in manufacturing about cutting costs to keep the shop rate down/reduce overhead/etc - but in many places (and especially in my current center) reducing rework/scrap/NCR's is by far the biggest cost savings. Saving 5 minutes on a 4 hour job is great, but the gains are minimal. If you can build quality into your process so you aren't spending 8 hours reworking parts, then you can have incredible cost savings. One of my big projects currently is reducing the "tribal knowledge" required to make our cases and components. You'll still need skilled machinists, but you shouldn't be dependent on one operator to run the part. Your process should be resilient enough to withstand a sick day.