The Gill Corporation’s early success was based on our ability to do wet layup of polyester cargo liner. A good manufacturing company is always looking for ways to improve quality and productivity and even in the early days we were a good company.
Someone came up with the idea of building a “laminating machine”. It would replace a lot of the hand labor and reduce our cost of manufacturing. The machine was to be installed on our main production line – Line 2.
我们工程部的一名机械工程师设计并制造了这台机器。它安装在 2 号线上，作为生产线的主管，我要协助工程师验证机器和想法。
工程师、生产线主管操作员和我在机器上工作了几天；由工程师指导实施。我们没有任何成功，工程师最终放弃了，我接手了。
I continued to oversee the “shake-down cruise”, but without any success. Finally, the idea occurred to me to assign the task of getting the machine to work to the Line #2 Lead (Pete Ortega). To my surprise and shame (because I should have thought of this much earlier), Pete got the machine to work.
It never worked well enough to put into our process, but I learned a valuable lesson – If there’s a problem with the product or process –询问运营商.他们知道发生了什么事。
多年来，我多次看到专家被请来解决问题，他们试图自己解决。最好的办法是询问操作员，然后从那个角度解决问题。
吉尔公司
简单街4056号
埃尔蒙特, CA 91731-1087 美国
电话：626-443-4022
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