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Among the best things of designing new products is the possibility to produce the first unit of something that didn't exists before. To do that, they had to the disposition the workshop of the wood. However, few people really know how to use their equipments or what they are really capable of producing.
A lot of times the structure or the duration of the course don't allow that a deep knowledge on the workshop is transmitted in a clear way. The aim of this section is that you deepen the knowledge of as it operates, basic cares and some tricks (clues) of how to extract the maximum from each equipment of the workshop.

Preparation

Technical drawing

The first stage in the production of any project is the drawing of the part to be produced. Initially, it should be explored the options through sketches, to analyze those options, to alter the drawing according to the need, for then to leave for an elaborated project, obeying scales and drawing patterns. The technical drawing exists exactly so that they are not made projects that are ruled just for the way as the leaning planner. Since there is no effective way of extrasensory communication, the patterns are important so the producer of the part doesn't need to "guess" anything. Even if is you same that it will produce the piece, get used to elaborate a very detailed, clear and clean technical drawing, doing that will save you a long time and helps to avoid mistakes during the practical work.

"To elaborate a very detailed and clean drawing is the first step for the execution of a piece."

It is important that, before using a workshop indeed, some work concepts are learned. That includes the behavior in the work atmosphere, the postures taken inside the workshop influence the income, safety and quality of the work directly. It is very important that you plan each step to be taken for the execution of the work, that can be made in the paper through an Order of Execution - OE (or Service Order - SO). That plan should contain full detailed sequence of all the operations to be accomplished. It is common that the first attempts to elaborate that document are a little tricky, but the fact of thinking in which the next step helps to control the service flow better, besides guaranteeing that you get to execute all of the tasks

For instance, imagine setting up a small niche (a box without one of the faces), of compensated plate, that will have supports in the lateral ones internal where will lean on a shelf. Imagined that the piece would be set up by screws, the sequence would be: to choose the material; to cut the material (depending on where one obtain more steps can be added, as the cut with rest for a subsequent work accurately); to execute demarcation of the holes; to hole the pieces; to screw in the niche; to screw in the support of the shelf. Until there everything well, the piece would be ready, but the detail at the beginning of the operation says "small niche", now imagine that the "small" represents that you don't have any tool capable to screw in the support after the assembly of the structure. There was a flaw in the execution order, you won't get to screw in the support, unless it disassembles the niche

These are mistakes that OE helps to avoid. The example is simple and it would not be any painful task to disassemble that piece, but sometimes the project is not so simple and a banal mistake as that puts the producer in a dead end, the outline can take several hours of service, extra material or until harming the quality of the final product. Besides, without an OE, an inexperienced person can be "locked" at the workshop for not to know which is the next step, or even beginning the production in a mistaken way, could lose the material or even hurt yourself.

Another important aspect is that this procedure helps to foresee the making of safety devices, required for some operations of high risk, and forms for certain pieces. Difficultly you will have all of the machines at your disposal when you need them, so is important to know all of the steps to do some other operation instead of being trapped in the workshop. Although OE is practically an algorithm, the accessories that you will use or some operations that don't depend on a logical order can be made separately in idle intervals.

The next step is to know the most common materials in the workshop.