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Vent: a guy at the IMTS booth in Chicago told me to scrap my whole setup sheet, and he was right
I was at IMTS in Chicago last fall, killing time at a tooling booth while my boss talked to a rep, and some old guy next to me watched me scribble feeds and speeds on a notepad like it was 1998. He asked what I ran, I told him a Haas VF-2 knocking out aluminum brackets, and he said I was setting myself up for scrap by keeping all my numbers in my head and a beat up binder. I got kind of ticked off, but he pulled out his phone and showed me his setup sheets with a picture of the tool holder, the offset numbers, and a note about which way the coolant points. I went back to the shop that Monday and rebuilt one job as a laminated sheet with photos, and my cycle time dropped about 4 minutes a part just because I stopped double checking every offset. The first run with the new sheet, my operator caught a wrong T number before the spindle even moved, which never would have happened with the binder. Now I want your take: do you put pictures on your setup sheets or is that overkill for a small shop?
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