5S standardizing and cleaning all the benches
My goal is to transfer all the stuff we have into boxes, label them, standardize them, and put them back. I’m looking for clear adhesive pockets that can be stuck on the front of each shoebox. A card in the pocket would hold the name, dewey decimal address, URL, and QR code pointing to the wiki page. This way anyone can learn about a thing, tell if the thing is in the right box, tell if the box is in the right place, or search the wiki to find the thing they need and where it lives.
Any given shelf of the ESD benches can hold 12 shoe boxes (6x2). There are 2-3 shelves per bench, 4 bench per row, and 4 rows (soldering, crafting, 3d printing, laser cutter). 1234*4 = 576 shoe boxes. Assuming 2 shelves per bench have big bins or odd-sized items, 194 boxes. I will therefor purchase ~150 new shoeboxes with fitting lids. I’ll even do the boring bit of making the wiki pages and running the printer. I ask you to help by clearing shelves one at a time, organizing them, telling me what label/wiki to set up, and then returning them neat & tidy to their new forever home.
Anything not fit in a box will be dealt with as a special case. Ideally nothing is thrown out. Non-standard shoe boxes will be donated to members on a first-come, first-serve basis.
I hope someone will champion the label maker to ensure that it is working day-of.
When I say Dewey Decimal…not really. Every bench has a letter and every shelf has a number. So if a box says “E3” it’s probably the top shelf of bench E, which would be the bench with the sewing machines.
No storage on the floor
I have a goal to get all storage off the floor. We have enough roomba fans at VHS, a Roomba should be running all the time. Drop a very special nut or screw on the floor? No fear of it rolling between things and disappearing.
Other critical infrastructure
Are there any pieces of VHS infrastructure still controlled by individual members? Can we get that cleared up?