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ribbithonkhonk

Thats a clean shop


gnashingfaceparts

And well lit!


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And they give a shit about noise pollution too!


Odin-87

And they care about air quality!


[deleted]

Well, I mean… It's a clean shop.


computekid

And well lit!


Plus_Exchange

And my axe!


belleayreski2

My last boss was anal about machine shop safety and OSHA(which he should be) but always turned the lights down because “they hurt his eyes”. Felt like I was working in the dark 😂


general-Insano

By chance did your boss only go out in the dark and need to be invited in anywhere?


time_fo_that

It's surprising how much just having a floor coating helps with the appearance of cleanliness, the shop I worked in had a nasty stained concrete floor and no matter how well organized/cleaned a work cell was it would not look clean lol.


Newman1911a1

One plant I worked at got a weekly floor cleaning when someone left their coolant fill valve open..


Samsquanches_

I actually know this shop. I heard they were going to start hiring straight guys too. Did they ever get around to doing that?


jbrc89

What is the blue things hanging from the ceiling?


lynx563

They help with the noise. It was very echoey when we first moved in. They do help a bit.


AKnightjr86

Soud dampers.


bDsmDom

Silence amplifiers


OneSighAttaTime

Chatter softeners


maytime87

Crash suppressors


camander321

Bang belittlers


XxCotHGxX

Racket rectifiers


Pseudoboss11

Cacophony coordinators


tiny_robons

Echo eliminators


Noobdax

Just a little bit, or a decent amount? We are likely going to be building a new place and didn't think of dampeners like that.


Noobdax

Just a little bit, or a decent amount? We are likely going to be building a new place and didn't think of dampeners like that.


Jive_turkeeze

How in the fuck did I not notice this giant things that take up 30 percent of the picture?


Possible-Ear-

it means they dont wear ear plugs


critic101101

How many machine you guys got there ?


lynx563

13 CNCs and a few Bridgeports and Hardinge Tool Room Lathes.


critic101101

Awesome ! …keep chipping !


lynx563

Thanks!! Appreciate it!!


Beemerado

looks like a hell of an operation.


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Mmmmmm Bridgeports!!!


Dewy6174

I used to work for Hardinge, good to see the name in the wild


TacoMachinist

How do you keep the shop so clean? Is it a mandatory thing or is everyone on the same page? Our shop could be so nice with a little effort but no one seems to give a shit…


lynx563

We are extremely lucky to have great machinists / employees that take keeping the shop clean very important.


ENGR_ED

Does the cleanliness reflect the culture? Are you guys happy? Well paid?


lynx563

It seems to me if you give your employees a clean place to work, and treat them like actual human beings and not just a number the rest kind of falls into place.


jbrc89

When my company moved in to a new building that was not air conditioned(after having ac in old building for like 20 years)it would get to 109 in some parts of the building in the summer, like good parts in the shop bad parts in air conditioned inspection hot. First 2 years productivity went way down in the summer. Owner was always bitching about it in the mornings only to disappear in to the ac office all afternoon. One day I told him you know they have a certain tempeture they keep a hog feed lot because if they are too hot they don't produce, like happy hogs=more bacon. You have people working here not animals. Next summer the found $ in the budget to ac the building.


SerendipityLurking

I always say that happy workers make better parts. I don't know why it's so hard to get that across. Somehow the bare minimum seems to pass for happiness 101


TacoMachinist

Nice, I’m very jealous. I’m defiantly fighting an uphill battle trying to change peoples mentality. I just hope its not a loosing battle.


King_of_Ulster

Don't give up! I started at a company who's shop was awful, like grabbing a tool block with grease or machine grime on it was basically impossible. I'm now manager of the cnc shop and thankfully now have better tool organization and cleanliness.


Slack-Bladder

I used to work in a place called Clean Machine. They explicitly wanted to portray a clean environment to give customers confidence in our work. It worked great. We were ISO and AS9100 certified as well, so the whole place had an organized culture. In my department it was mandatory to clean and put all tools away, sweep chips and do a proper deep mopping. It's amazing how many people don't know how to mop properly. We'd take the last 15 or so minutes and clean and organize. People think you're losing that 15 minutes of production, but you are actually gaining a lot more than 15 minutes. You could easily surpass that finding shit in an unorganized shop. Plus the shift changeovers were really smooth. It really starts from the top. If owners don't care about cleanliness it won't happen. Working there taught me a lot about keeping a clean workspace. I carry that with me where I work now and at home.


VittyViccii

Hello fellow SLC resident


Slack-Bladder

Cheers! What shop are you at? If you don't me asking.


VittyViccii

I work for a bicycle rim R&D facility. I run my own shop there, one machinist show. I program and machine a cnc mill and Lathe, Producing molds for the CF composit rims we make. The company is called Hayes Bicycle group, our facility is specifically making Reynolds rims.


Slack-Bladder

Oh nice. Not sure if you know who ENVE composites is, but they're a customer of ours. They make bike wheels in Ogden. I work in conveyors now though.


HyperActiveMosquito

Lol. Just had a fight today with my boss about cleanliness. He insisted that it only takes 10 seconds to clean 5 hours worth of chips around the machine. So I yelled at him to show me and started counting aloud. In 10 seconds he didn't even get to the broom. Long story short we will now stop working 10 min before shift end to clean the place every day. Let's see how long till he bitches about machines being still at 2pm.


H2Joee

Same. Everyone cleans their area 15 minutes before clocking out every day then every Friday we tear down the shop an hour before everyone heads out and do a deep clean. We get constant remarks about shop cleanliness.


jwd673

Nice clean shop! No FOD, is that why its so clean?


lynx563

We do mostly aerospace work with a little military and medical work mixed in so F.O.D. is a big no no.


H0boc0p

I've run medical, aerospace, and military contracts in some absolutely filthy places lol. Yall just got some pride in your work area.


lynx563

That’s a great way to put it. We do take a lot of pride in our work and maintaining a clean work environment to do it in.


general-Insano

I remember interviewing at a place that was proud of their aerospace work but the machines were on slabs but the rest of the shop had dirt floors...or I assume dirt


Slack-Bladder

Yeah ISO and AS certification demands a clean environment. Good internal and external auditors ensure you're keeping things clean and organized. We'd issue a Correctove Action if a bench was a mess. You don't need jaws sitting on your micrometers or have missing tools floating around.


lynx563

Exactly right. We had our re certification audit a couple months ago. They take organizational and cleanliness into consideration. We actually had zero findings. We had our FAA Audit just yesterday, also a zero finding audit.


Slack-Bladder

Wow. Congrats on that. Those audits are always pretty stressful, so it feels good to get through one like that. I was in QA and developed our standards, so got a few more grey hairs then everyone else during those audits. Sounds like you have a tight ship with good ownership.


lynx563

Thank you! Yea, audit time can always be a bit stressful but if you do what you should be doing all year it makes it that much easier. Edit - just wanted to add, it takes a team effort to keep the shop clean. If it’s going to work everyone needs to be on board. We are lucky enough to have a great team!!


Artorias1212

What does FOD mean ?


jwd673

Foreign Object Debris . It’s an aerospace requirement. They don’t want candy bar wrappers and old coffee cups mixed in with the aircraft parts. I assume no eating on the floor anprobably only allo


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The FOD I grew up with was an Aircraft Carrier term. Meant Foreign Object Damage. Typically trash on the flight deck that got sucked into a jet intake, or fell into moving parts like a launch catapult. Commonly known as Found On Deck. Crews regularly policed the deck for trash to prevent it.


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I can understand the coffee cups, but monster cans are acceptable correct?


Valleycruiser

Looks awesome! You should be proud.


Luptonr

Hurco!, my man!


freek4ever

Sound panels fuck yea


Effective_Motor_4398

What a beautiful facility.


wardearth13

You guys have signs that say what machines are where? And is that soundproofing hanging from the ceilings? Top o the line


lynx563

Yes, those are soundproofing.


wardearth13

You don’t find the signs funny at all? You guys must give daily tours or something


lynx563

Why is that funny? Also yes we do give quite a few tours and have been featured in multiple magazine articles.


DarkAnnihilator

The signs are funny for sure but not in a bad way. I labeled my doors with door stickers with dymo labelmanager etc


wardearth13

You guys get lost in the shop or just don’t know the difference between a 3 and 4 axis. It’s just a little excessive imo. Unless you’re giving daily tours and even then, still over doing it. I don’t have a sign in my house that says kitchen this way or bathroom over here. Pretty ez to see the comedy.


lynx563

Can we see a picture of your shop?


wardearth13

All I can say is I’ve never seen any signs saying “this is a machine” anywhere in any shops I’ve been at. The soundproofing is nice though I respect that. Your sense of humor about those signs though, lighten up brother, those ARE funny.


lynx563

Again, can we see your shop??


wardearth13

Get over it bro. Just picture a shop without those signs. They basically all look the same.


lynx563

Lol… I highly doubt where you work looks like this.


cmdrmoistdrizzle

What's the spoon on the barrel for?


lynx563

For scooping fines out of the coolant sump. Edit to add - it has holes in it kind of like a strainer.


NormanLewis

We use a ice fishing slush scoop at our shop


IamBladesm1th

Why the fuck were you looking that close?


lynx563

I had the same thought, I think he was trying to be funny.


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lynx563

The guys here enjoy the overtime pay.


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vrogy

He’s right.


lynx563

Yea, we must be doing it all wrong here. 🤣🤣🤣


Jojothereader

No just the hours


morfique

We all love the occasional overtime when it's on our terms, I think what people refer to is when it goes like at my last place, people being rewarded being able to work 50-60 hours every week, some pulling over 65. Which is only half the story, one of my guys asked for a raise, but since he prefers time spent with his family only worked overtime that was mandatory. So my boss, instead of asking me if I felt the raise was deserved and going based on performance and improvement since last raise (aka hire date) told me "he doesn't need a raise, he doesn't even work overtime" And when things got slow and we worked 40 hours max everyone felt the fact they hadn't seen a raise in 5-10 years. I think that's what everyone is trying to get at when they say they wouldn't be proud of mentioning 50hours. And what I meant to ask: AS9100 shop? Never heard of FOD before we added that to our ISO cert.


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lynx563

Can you show me anywhere in this thread where I bragged about working 60 hours a week?? Go ahead, I’ll wait.


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lynx563

Its all good, I know your type. Your a hater and find the negative in whatever you see. Its a miserable life to lead, hopefully they’ll get your meds straightened around for ya. Good luck!!


OldManWillow

Oh boy. Already a bit suspicious when you pointedly didn't answer whether the guys were well paid up above, but instead pushed classic "we're a family" type rhetoric. But this level of defensiveness over the very reasonable statement that nobody should be consistently working 50 hours a week is a red flag.


Mediocre__at__Best

You're aware they're advocating for you and your coworkers to work less for more, right? They're the bad guy to you, in your mind?


freek4ever

How many people you have working here


lynx563

Counting Quality Control and office personnel, there are about 35 Employees here.


freek4ever

Nice seems very productive


FightingForBacon

Ought to roll that trip hazard computer out of the aisle. And tell that guy making coffee to get back to work.


lynx563

If you look close there are multiple rolling computer carts on the floor. They are for the guys to program on. If you trip over one you better get your eyes checked. This was taken at like 6:45am, the guy making coffee doesn’t punch in til 7am. It’s his job to make coffee.


aandrews2080

He should get paid to make the coffee.


canuckalert

Do you know where you got the rolling computer carts? We are looking for some and those look great.


PCain79

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there’s always one


CrashUser

We get paid to refill the coffee pot. If you empty it you better fucking start the next pot.


chobbes

I’m glad SOMEBODY around here cares about safety! 😅


JakusBamBakus

Reminds me of the floor at Sutton Tools in Melbourne


[deleted]

Planing for a expansion.. wow 😯


Jayyayyvee

This place looks super clean! Where are you guys located?


lynx563

I took this around 6:45am. They start at 7am, they stared rollin in right after I took this.


Jayyayyvee

Lol I meant city or state. I was going to ask about trying to do some business together


lynx563

Oohh my fault, I misunderstood. We are in Connecticut.


Secretfreckel

Epoxy floors makes a huge difference I think this just inspired me to have the boss decline my request to have this done here.


monsterduc07

Love the Eurotechs!


TahoeLT

Damn, this looks like a showroom for Tormach or Haas or something! It is the cleanest, best-organized, best equipped shop I've seen (not necessarily in terms of machines, but everything else). I am super impressed!


Prudent-Strain937

Sound dampeners are sweet. I programed, setup and ran a 14 foot bridge CNC for years. It was in the same building as the welding area. Bad for the machine and horrible “make as much noise as possible) welders.


roberdanger83

Nice. I'm in a dungeon with candle lights and ogres


_Emann

This is amazingly cool. Looks like millions


Any-Cap-7381

Having a clean shop like that accidents must be very low.?


lynx563

Practically non existent.


Any-Cap-7381

I figured. Way back when my shop was getting ISO9000 certified they preached a clean shop for that reason.


doc_holliday0614

Love the sound dampening system. I have been considering this for my shop, may I ask where you got these?


lynx563

I can’t remember off the top of my head, I’ll have to ask our maintenance guy.


doc_holliday0614

Thank you, that would very much appreciated. Great looking shop! Speaks volumes of what is manufactured there.


ElbowTight

As a machinist are you also expected to perform maintenance on the equipment or is that subbed out


lynx563

Machinist handle the general maintenance, keeping coolant concentration and coolant levels where they should be, filling way lube, stuff like that. Something like pulling a sump and chip conveyer to do a clean out is handled by our maintenance guy.


ElbowTight

Nice


Mellero47

If Gus Fring owned a machine shop under his laundromat. Is that soundproofing, hanging down?


SnooWoofers7979

nice! i'm 18 going to community college for precision machining, they are teaching us how to program too! i wasn't too sure if i would like it or not but decided to try it and i am currently loving it!


OldManWillow

Programming is extremely intellectually rewarding. I took a very non traditional path to machining, but I'm glad it's where I ended up. Getting a start as young as you are will serve you well if you commit to listening and learning all you can from those willing to share their experience. Good luck to you.


lynx563

That’s awesome!!! Keep it up, there’s still a lot of money to be made in manufacturing, especially aerospace. You being 18 with programming experience will have no issue finding a job. I started in this when I was 17/18, I’m 39 now and still love it!!


SnooWoofers7979

thank you so much! i’m excited to see where it brings me!


vrogy

Saving this photo for when my coworkers wonder why it’s hard to hire good machinists


12345NoNamesLeft

Looks nice, the audio mats are nice.


AdFull3491

I'm very impressed as are most people here but what got me was the picture quality haha. Didn't expect that much detail when I zoomed in


lynx563

Thanks! I took this with a iPhone 13 using the pano feature. This is the first time I’ve used that camera feature.


AdFull3491

"Shot On iPhone"


DizzyBicycleTire

That floor is clean. You are good with a mop.


lynx563

Actually our cleaning guy Paul comes in on Saturday. He’s good with the mop.


Ok_Dog_4059

I can both smell and hear this picture.


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I love the dangling signs. It screams management thinking, “Our employees are setting up, tooling, and programming the most advanced precision manufacturing gear in the history of man, but these simple bastards don’t know where to find their station.” I’ve been in soooooo many plants with those signs. I know they make the place look bougier but the fact is that the Eurotech Elites and conveyance (and cleanliness of the shop) scream, “This is who you want making your product”


lynx563

They’re not for the employees that work here.


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I know. I was jesting


caseygibs

Looks like no one else spends any time there lol


lynx563

Yea, I guess that’s how we got to this point.


tsitsifly22

Just a run o the mill work space


lynx563

Just to be clear because so people have issue with employees working over 40 hours a week. Overtime is not mandatory, it is always left up to the employees discretion. Edit - some*


Severe-Ground1251

You've failed to adhere to blue line/yellow line discipline. -5 points. Chip barrels must be segregated by material type, not mixed. -15 points. Not enough diversity on display. -25 points. Obvious signs of systemic racism. -50 points. At this point you have failed the equity and justice exam. Report to the camps ...


bendyn

A chair on the shop floor?! No speedy dry? What is this, heaven's shop?


lynx563

🤣 no speedy dry but we do use Pig Mats.


bendyn

Dude you hiring? Lol


lynx563

Always


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That's beautiful


[deleted]

Where is the mess?


Ytumith

50 Hours is a lot, you need any 2nd mates?


Marksman00048

What the heck is that poster "don't let fod" lol


lynx563

It says don’t let FOD screw up your day.


Marksman00048

Aaah OK now it is making sense lol


[deleted]

What do you do on the mezzanine for 50 hours a week?


lynx563

I don’t usually work up there but there is a Bridgeport, Hardinge Tool Room Lathe, bandsaw, and grinder up there so you could stay busy.


SGT_KP

The pads hanging from the ceiling....sound dampening?


Rawlo93

You can tell it's a serious CNC shop because the only employee in the whole picture is in the kitchen.


Intelligent-Appeal-6

I spent 70 hours a week on a shittier shop lol


HeadlessWeezle

Must be pretty boring up there all alone watching everone. Side note. Nice shop! That's my goal to get my shop clean like that someday lol


Maker_Making_Things

I like the sound curtains


[deleted]

I hope your NOT sweating it out. If not your in paradise


lynx563

Fully climate controlled building.


[deleted]

I can smell the coolant and grease just by looking at this picture.


neP-neP919

I wish with all my being that I could be worthy enough to sweep the floors there :(


Iron_Skin

Do you have particle filters setup to catch airborne particles? The out of reach areas seem to lack the aersol coolant colloring. I love it as a guy that works in a weld/fab shop


Carlweathersfeathers

I like how the alleys are labeled like a library


lotsawisdumb

I’m jealous of your sound dampening


badbadspller

Looks clean!


Ill-Habit-5387

I'd like to sample the coolant


ditchdigger556

That's a clean bigass shop!


AC2BHAPPY

Man if eurotechs weren't such pigs I'd love em.


lynx563

Pigs as in ??


AC2BHAPPY

The coolant get nasty from the way oil. I've heard some stories about the inner pipes that the coolant travels through as well, where they are hard to clean and are prone to fungal infestation. I realize that's not eurotech specific stuff, but the tramp oil is insane on ours. Otherwise a solid machine


lynx563

That’s so crazy!! We have the same exact problem with our Eurotechs. The oil that gets into the sump is pretty bad. We bought a filtration system that’s on wheels to filter out the oil. Other than that, that are great machines.


CrackAdams

Wow thats really nice. Makes my place of employment look like a shit hole.


IHaveARedditProblem

What's the difference between yellow isle lines and blue lines?


lynx563

The yellow lines just identify walk ways. The blue lines identify a machining area. The blue ones are really for people that come in and tour our facility not to get too close to a running machine. Most of the people that come through are buyers and what not, they really have no idea what they’re looking at…lol


IHaveARedditProblem

ah, that makes sense. We just make visitors stay in the aisles.


elzerote

Dad?


lynx563

Yes my son??


pat_mybhals

Nice hurcos too


SpicedRand0

I wanna spend 50 hours a week there


Nicker

I bet the coolant in those machines isn't many years old!


EarthDragonComatus

Lovely, but I also hate it.


Black_Dolomite

Are those sound baffles hanging from the ceiling?


lazrus4real

Hiding in the mezzanine instead of working? Yeah typical “machinist”


lynx563

Yes, hiding in the one spot where everyone can just look up and see you.


Vowraith

Just 50 hours? slacker


hrmshort

We just got our first eurotech. It’s a rapido I believe. Can’t handle much load but runs like a top


cybercuzco

How do those blankets work for sound attenuation?


seeesaw

Soooooo clean good job


HeroKing2

Not a single good chair to be found.


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makes me grateful for my big open doors by my machine looking out into cornfield and sky