I Skipped the Warm-Up and Scrapped a $2,000 Part
It was a Monday morning in January, the shop was freezing, and I was behind schedule. The weekend crew had left a machine set up and ready to run, and the part on the table was a large hydraulic cylinder block that had already gone through several operations. All it needed was a 25mm hole drilled 800mm deep. About an hour of cycle time, then on to the next operation. ...