How Vietnamese Wooden Chair Factory Mass-Produces
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Very interesting. They're not shy about glue application.
Apparently, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) hasn’t visited them recently.
If that factory was I. The USA, Canada, or most European countries, it would be shuttered by the time the agent left the building.
Interestingly, the required changes would not slow down production. Perhaps a blade guard on the sliding table saw would be appropriate.
If that factory was I. The USA, Canada, or most European countries, it would be shuttered by the time the agent left the building.
Interestingly, the required changes would not slow down production. Perhaps a blade guard on the sliding table saw would be appropriate.
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[member=74278]Packard[/member] in the first video [member=19647]7[/member]:15 you can see the shaping of curved parts on a two spindle shaper. The spindles are rotating in opposite directions so the operator can use the same template and still avoid climb cutting.
@8:10 you can see some tearout that will be removed by the next spindle.
To get the same benefit with an ordinary router you need a two-sided template or a cutter with bearings above and below. Then the problem is how to secure the work in the template.
@8:10 you can see some tearout that will be removed by the next spindle.
To get the same benefit with an ordinary router you need a two-sided template or a cutter with bearings above and below. Then the problem is how to secure the work in the template.
Michael Kellough said:
I did just that for my toy car project. I drilled through pilot holes in the car blank and used opposite sides of the original template to allow me to avoid climbing cuts. Once I understood what the problem was, it was a simple matter.
Having two heads is going to be faster than having to remove and remount the template. But in my case, I had climbing cuts on both ends of the piece, so the cuts required more than one placement of the cutter. In other words, I have to pay attention to what I a doing, which sometimes seems like an unrealistic burden. [big grin]
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Correct.Packard said:
And that is why no such "big workshop" will ever open in the EU or US and people will be forced to live from the state subsidies ..
Here it is even an issue to open a small workshop with only your family as employees. The regulations are basically insane for anything bar a one-man-show. So there is big lack of small shops - one needs at least 10 employees for all the paperwork to be financially sensible.
This is a problem mainly for young people - there is no way one can get an aprentice job for the most part as the (regulatory) cost for a small guy is so huge, the apprentice would have to pay obscene money to the shop owner for him to just cover the costs.
Looking at how the folks hold the wood - two people, where they stand - they have a huge respect for the machinery. Something the younger generation (thinking
About 50 years ago, I had a large customer in the Bronx, NY, named “Farberware”. They were a major producer of stainless steel pots and pans. Their name is still out there on housewares, but the company is out of business. They simply license the name to others.
It was easily the most dangerous shop I have ever visited. At the time I was selling OSHA compliance devices, and I was attuned to dangerous operations in factories.
I won’t go through all of the things that were outrageously dangerous, but I will detail one.
Every pot and pan that left Farberware was buffed to a mirror shine. All year round the workers were subject to airborne soot. I would visit the factory and after just 15 minutes there, when I left I would blow my nose and the tissue would be black. The workers, on the other hand, would breath that soot in all day long.
I suggested masks. They laughed.
In the summer the buffing operation was dangerous (the buffing wheels were about 18 to 20 inches in diameter and traveling at a high rate of speed). But in the winter the operation was horrifying.
The room was not heated. So in the winter, the operators wore their outdoors coats to keep warm while working. Many of the sweat shirts and jackets were loose enough that I was concerned that the buffing wheel would catch on the loose fabric.
I would note that I had absolutely no product to address this problem. The answer was to supply heat to the buffing room.
The plant manager laughed when I pointed out the problem and the solution.
A few months later they had an industrial accident. A man at the buffing wheel got his sleeve caught on the wheel and it ripped his arm off at the shoulder. Re-attachment was not possible.
I was really upset about that because it was a preventable accident, and I had predicted the outcome (but not the severity).
Later I sold them a “pull back” system for their punch presses. It is a cable and pulley system that will yank the operators hands out from under the ram if their hands were under the ram when it was coming down.
Despite my warnings, they were not adjusting the cables for length for each operator. And they were requiring that the operator only wear the gloves attached to the cables for the one hand that was supposed to be used under the ram.
He wanted to buy 50 more units at $1,500.00 each, but we decided that it was too much liability to sell them anything. I never visited them again. When he called the factory, they informed them that we were not able to retain them as a customer.
So, OSHA is a pain in the ass. But before OSHA people ignored safety.
I would suggest that the looming of a OSHA agent’s visit is what made factories safer. Some of the agents’ cited “violations” were so stupid that the only explanation would be that they were soliciting bribes. The bad name OSHA got was, in my opinion, the result of over-zealous or corrupt agents, not the agency itself.
It was easily the most dangerous shop I have ever visited. At the time I was selling OSHA compliance devices, and I was attuned to dangerous operations in factories.
I won’t go through all of the things that were outrageously dangerous, but I will detail one.
Every pot and pan that left Farberware was buffed to a mirror shine. All year round the workers were subject to airborne soot. I would visit the factory and after just 15 minutes there, when I left I would blow my nose and the tissue would be black. The workers, on the other hand, would breath that soot in all day long.
I suggested masks. They laughed.
In the summer the buffing operation was dangerous (the buffing wheels were about 18 to 20 inches in diameter and traveling at a high rate of speed). But in the winter the operation was horrifying.
The room was not heated. So in the winter, the operators wore their outdoors coats to keep warm while working. Many of the sweat shirts and jackets were loose enough that I was concerned that the buffing wheel would catch on the loose fabric.
I would note that I had absolutely no product to address this problem. The answer was to supply heat to the buffing room.
The plant manager laughed when I pointed out the problem and the solution.
A few months later they had an industrial accident. A man at the buffing wheel got his sleeve caught on the wheel and it ripped his arm off at the shoulder. Re-attachment was not possible.
I was really upset about that because it was a preventable accident, and I had predicted the outcome (but not the severity).
Later I sold them a “pull back” system for their punch presses. It is a cable and pulley system that will yank the operators hands out from under the ram if their hands were under the ram when it was coming down.
Despite my warnings, they were not adjusting the cables for length for each operator. And they were requiring that the operator only wear the gloves attached to the cables for the one hand that was supposed to be used under the ram.
He wanted to buy 50 more units at $1,500.00 each, but we decided that it was too much liability to sell them anything. I never visited them again. When he called the factory, they informed them that we were not able to retain them as a customer.
So, OSHA is a pain in the ass. But before OSHA people ignored safety.
I would suggest that the looming of a OSHA agent’s visit is what made factories safer. Some of the agents’ cited “violations” were so stupid that the only explanation would be that they were soliciting bribes. The bad name OSHA got was, in my opinion, the result of over-zealous or corrupt agents, not the agency itself.
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