Blog 5

 

Nick Bollinger

5/25/22

Hawken Project

Blog 5

Days 9 and 10

Day nine at crush core once again started with the daily 7:45 AM meeting with the three supervisors. Joe reported to Ryan stating that the fabrication department is running very smoothly right now because of the recent start up of second shift. Second shift was shut down once Covid hit, but just recently within the past week second shift started back up again. This has made a huge improvement in the number of manufactured parts to get to assembly. Butch, on the other hand is having a lot of trouble in assembly because he cannot get workers to show up and actually assemble the products. The rest of day nine was pretty slow because all I did was pull more folders to send out for jobs. Not all of the folders are always there because the same part number could be in a job from the previous week so then I have to track down the missing folder and find the right one to put the tag in for this week’s job.

 

On Wednesday, day 10, Ryan let me go a little bit early because it was the day of the district championship for baseball. Ryan’s son is a pitcher at Penn State and played in the state championship in high school so Ryan is very familiar with high school baseball and what it takes to win. After the meeting in the morning we walked through assembly line 8 and talked to Johnny, Diane, Georgia, Dennis, Andy, Brenda, and Bobby. Ryan is in charge of line 8 so every day after the morning meeting we walked through to check in with everybody. Also on Wednesday I had my check in with Ms. Yudovina and my mentor. After the check in Ryan had me research why his pool is not very clear yet and I found that he needed less chlorine. Then I ate lunch and went home to prepare for the baseball game which we won. Hockey baseball has only one additional championship three times before this year so it was pretty historic.