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good idea that our cash flow is keeping up with our costs,” he says.
“I only get scared when the expense number begins to exceed the amount billed,” Bertram says. “If we sold a job for $63,000, have recorded $57,000 in costs but have only billed $33,000, that’s a problem. So the project manager needs to look at this billing versus cost report every month.
A good way to even workloads is through cross training.
A number of new jobs at one time can cause a bottleneck in engineering, and later in the shop.
“We take some of our senior people and train them internally in Access and AutoCAD,” Bertram says.
“Now we have half-dozen people who can work in either engineering or the shop. As engineering becomes busy and manufacturing slows, we bring them to engineering and they can help there.
“In some cases it works out well because they know what’s happening up front. They’ve worked on the engineering aspect on some of the projects that are in the shop.”
Gauthier says that H&W used to get architectural drawings that were perfect. Now, they have to do much more design-and-build, and they’re much more involved in the design process.
H&W has always owned and maintained its own equipment, Gauthier says, often for the long haul. They’ve also had a longtime relationship with Boshco Inc., a Massachusetts equipment distributor.
Data goes from the Access database previously described into Pattern Systems, then into a Schelling panel saw that does most of the cutting. A Paolini sliding table saw was added to allow flexibility at the start of the process. H&W also bought several SawStop table saws, primarily for safety.
An IMA Bima point-to-point is used mostly for boring. An Anderson Exxact Plus dual-table machining center cuts shaped parts such as curved mouldings. Also here are an
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