[Jewelry making - Article 00202] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry Jobs - Tracking Time

[Sam Patania]

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    Dear both of you, I did time studies for several years. I had my
    smiths time themselves and did it to myself as well. These studies
    were done with ordinary stop watches per job, not just repair but
    anything we worked on. It was a grind and hard to keep up with but,
    I learned so much. One of the things I learned was that finishing(
    filing emery-ing and polishing) were the most time consuming areas
    of any project so I studied this area to see what could be done
    about it. I came up with using lapidary sander running under water
    to file and emery, the 3-M scotch brite wheels to aid in emerying
    and cut out significant amounts of hand work yet keeping high
    quality finishes part of the work. Casting parts of the work was
    another time saver and again keeping the over all quality high. These
    time studies got me into using the hydraulic press pushing metal
    into urethane to avoid tool marks and the time associated to remove
    tool marks in the finishing process. I also got into pancake dies to
    do alot of the basic cutting of projects. I can in,one instance,
    produce an item my grandfather designed in one tenth the time he
    took to make it and you would not be able to tell the quality
    difference between his product and mine. Manyother older designs can
    now be produced with similar time savings and some designs modified
    or gotten rid of all together. I can decide quickly if a design is
    worth producing at all becasue of the time studies or how it can be
    modified to make it cost effective. The time studies allowed me to
    know how much time it took to do many parts of a project like
    bezels, stone setting and many other processes which I now use to
    price out work, The time studies were invauable. I am now only
    occasionally keeping an eye on the clock and am glad the studies are
    for the most part done. I hated it but am glad I did it. 

Sam Patania, Tucson
www.patanias.com
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