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Please
Use Professional Tools if you want to have World Class Performance!
One skill that is very developed among the
maintenance and production people in the automotive industry, is that of guessing with
much precision the size of a nut or bolt head. This allows for them to constantly use the
right tool for each task. Although, for some reason, many other industries do not
follow that good custom. As a result of this, many people in most industries
are used to the adjustable or crescent wrenches.
Crescent or adjustable wrenches lack the
adjustment needed to provide a good transmission of the strength applied to them.
Right after “adjusting” one of those wrenches, as you start using it, it moves
and you reach the point where it slips and can even cause for the user to get the knuckles
hit hard surfaces around. The nuts and bolts get damaged, the tightness is not
reliable or effective either.
Good mechanics usually have a brand new
crescent wrench in their tool boxes and it remains new because they very infrequently will
use it. The right thing is to have one set of each of the following:
· Open wrenches
· Box wrenches or
· Combination wrenches that have both ends of each size
· Socket wrenches according to the different needs
Some operations require torque wrenches
that in many environments are practically unknown.
If we want to remain competitive in this
“World Class” wave, we better get started with some training and start
abolishing the use of the wrong tools. They are there just because they are easier to use
and that is not justified!
Sometime in a renown computer assembly plant in
Guadalajara, Mexico I could see people using pliers to tighten ¼” hex head
screws. Also in many American plants they still buy crescent wrenches and also
vise-grips that are wrongly used. If you are in charge of a maintenance or assembly
operation, set a deadline to stop using those tools. Something reasonable could be 6
months from now. Some training will have to be involved, of course. Also some tools
will have to be bought. Believe me, I am not proposing that you have an expense,
rather you will be making a very rewarding investment! Those bad tools really do
damage the quality concept that we are in the process of implementing, or Aren’t You?
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