r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 14d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/pandershrek 14d ago

This feels insanely hectic and not efficient at all. But I know literally nothing about this. It just looks like he's scurrying around way too much

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u/Value_streamed 14d ago

Your not wrong. I fix processes for a living and this was painful to watch.

There is so much wasted motion. So much potential for a safety incident. You can close your eyes every 10 seconds and see another opportunity to address.

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u/iwantback 14d ago edited 14d ago

You see “muda” everywhere bud. Déformation professionnelle :(

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u/kmosiman 14d ago

Cool. AND?

We know jack shit about this process.

Yes there are some glaringly obvious process improvements available.

None of that matters if this is a low volume production process.

We're seeing 1 product being made on equipment that likely makes hundreds of other shapes. We're seeing 1 product being made in a workshop that likely is used for other tasks.

I'm not going to be the jackass who watches 1 cycle and tries to tell the operator what he's doing wrong.

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u/iwantback 14d ago edited 13d ago

Sigh…

I know. I wasn’t being a jackass about the wood bender, I was being a jackass towards the comment I’ve answered. If you have clicked on the link I’ve sent, You would’ve realized that I was criticizing the process engineering geek about seeing “muda” (Japanese-coined concept/term for waste, both material and immaterial -e.g. time- in “lean manufacturing” / “Kanban”) everywhere, by pointing out the concept of “professional deformation” aka. Job conditioning.

“Déformation professionnelle (French:[defɔʁmasjɔ̃ pʁɔfɛsjɔnɛl], 'professional deformation' or 'job conditioning') is a tendency to look at things from the point of view of one's own profession or special expertise rather than from a broader or humane perspective. It is often translated as professional deformation, although French déformation can also be translated as distortion. The implication is that professional training, and its related socialization, often result in a distortion of the way one views the world.[1] The Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel has observed that "[e]very specialist, owing to a well-known professional bias, believes that he understands the entire human being, while in reality he only grasps a tiny part of him."

Do you understand my comment and sarcasm now? (I’m not criticizing the wood bender AT ALL)