OnTakt President’s Corner: What Not To Do After a Holiday Weekend

In this video, I showcase our shop post-July 4th weekend, highlighting maintenance tasks and machine utilization. I run an excess capacity report, revealing unearned income due to underutilization. Watch to understand the impact of post-holiday operations and the importance of machine efficiency. No action requested.

Full Video Transcript

Good morning everyone. Welcome back from hopefully what was a great uh July 4th weekend. Uhm, this is Nathan and I’m here with the OnTak President’s Corner.

Just showing what our shop looks like this morning. And I’m gonna show you something that you should never ever do when you come back from a holiday weekend. So first, some things to see that we don’t always see. We’ve got a lot of maintenance tasks that have showed up that are ready to be performed this morning.

When I do this later in the afternoon, almost all these have been knocked out. Uhm, but. We’ll see things that people are catching up on. Washdowns, wastebuckets, and uh, and such. I see that most of the machines are running nicely. I see that somebody got in here last night and started the machines.

So they’ve fired up overnight. One way I can see this is. by dropping our filter down and showing the current shift. So if it started in the gray, that meant somebody started it overnight. So pretty good shape on those guys. Now here’s the uh, the scary part.

Going to run an excess capacity report for last week. And so what this is, is every one of our machines we set a production target. And if I come over here to edit, um, I expect this Okuma LB3000 to be running. Um, at 74% or better utilization.

Um, and what our report does, and it sends it to me every Monday morning, and I can’t help but look at it, is, um, basically, it looks at the delta. Between my expectations and what it actually ran, and it quantifies the dollars that we lost in this situation, or failed to realize. And I’m going to swap over to some reading glasses, so if anybody thinks I look too young to be doing this, uh, that is proof I am not.

Okay, Billable Excess Capacity Report. Um, like I said, most of the time we should just enjoy our weekend and absolutely not look at this report. Um, the Maltas, this is down for a gas spring, so no utilization last week. We call that twenty percent. $51,000 in, um, unearned income.

I’m just gonna scroll to the end. We don’t need to look at each one of these. But we’ve got a nice summary. Here we go. Uh, expected target utilization for this group of machines. Actual utilization. Utilization left on the table. Total hours left on the table. And the value to me of those dollars that we did not execute. So. I told you before I showed you this. This is what you do not want to do after a holiday weekend.

There were other things going on. It was a pretty rough week. I’m not gonna lie. But. Anyway. I thought you might appreciate seeing this. I’ll hop over and just show you what that interface looks like real quick. We’ve got any of our reports. And I can hop over here to scheduled reports. Um. And I’ll just hop into edit instead of creating a new one.

But. I pick my report, how it’s going to be communicated. Slack, teams, email, um. What machines I want included. And then I can pick things like how far back it starts and how far back it ends. So I want a 7 day period that ends on a Sunday even though I want the report on a Monday. That’s why I do that. I just want a single entry for it instead of looking at it by day. So I look at it by week. Um, and then you pick how often you want to see the report. And it gives you a little preview of that right here. So if I also wanted it Wednesdays, this is pretty cool. It shows you me when I’m going to get it.

Great, uh, great interface here. Anyway, there you go. Things not to do after a holiday weekend, but I thought I would share.

Thanks a lot. Bye.