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Sep 11UrgentA press waited for its next mold a third timeIts job ended before the next mold was ready, the same gap that has stopped it twice already.A press went the full week without an unplanned stopThe best week for on-time shipping in the plant's recordsSep 10UrgentTwo presses ran out of plastic again overnightThis time both presses on the shared box stopped, and its warning light still faces away from them.A planned mold cleaning was a press's only stop in four daysWelding's queue is nearly gone after falling a third daySep 9UrgentA press waited for its next mold again, on the night shiftThe same gap came back on the night shift, with the tool room again not ready when the job ended.A press scrapped far more housings after a big dryer loadA shared plastic box ran empty and stopped a press overnightAn empty bin and hot dryer kept a press running a third dayand 1 moreSep 8Needs workA press sat waiting for its next mold from the tool roomIts job ended before the next mold was ready, and the press made nothing until the mold arrived.Small dryer top-ups kept a press running a second full dayA second welding machine started running on the night shiftSep 7Going wellA press that often stopped ran every scheduled hourIts scrap bin was emptied at each shift start and its dryer kept topped up, heading off the usual stops.Sep 4Needs workSome housings left in open bins were scuffed and scrappedThe bins filled when packing ran out of cartons, and the same shortage can happen again.Fewer orders shipped late than the week beforeSep 3Needs workPacking ran out of cartons on the night shiftHousings sat in open bins overnight, likely because cartons are reordered as if the job ran one shift.The big bracket order shipped before its promised dateSep 2Needs workA cooling unit shut off and stopped every press it servesIts radiator was likely clogged, and without regular cleaning it can happen again on any hot day.The big bracket order finished molding in one runSep 1Going wellPad printing kept up with the brackets a second day in a rowThe printer ran both shifts and printed the brackets almost as fast as they were molded.Aug 31Going wellPad printing started on the brackets the day molding beganThe first brackets of a big order went straight from molding to pad printing, which now runs both shifts.