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.
我們工程部的一名機械工程師設計並製造了這台機器。它安裝在 2 號線上，作為生產線的主管，我要協助工程師驗證機器和想法。
工程師、生產線主管操作員和我在機器上工作了幾天；由工程師指導實施。我們沒有任何成功，工程師最終放棄了，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 –詢問運營商.他們知道發生了什麼事。
多年來，我多次看到專家被請來解決問題，他們試圖自己解決。最好的辦法是詢問操作員，然後從那個角度解決問題。
吉爾公司
簡單街4056號
埃爾蒙特, CA 91731-1087 美國
電話：626-443-4022
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