User:Matteo/Matteo's Free Geek space usage idea
I decided to stop talking and start writing. Even though I suck at it. This plan is my thoughts on FreeGeek Space Usage and my answer to the Meta Question.
The plan below is only being started. I wish for every one to poke holes in it and hopefully take many parts of it for implementation at Free Geek. Many of thes ideas are not mine and some of them show up in other people's plans, and minds.
Project Overview
Purpose, Scope, and Objectives
Free Geek is currently set up in a way that creates a lot of opportunity for goods to be broken, and for things to be misplaced or stored forever. Free Geek is also not exactley 100% handicap accessable. The goal is to create a maximum use of space, more opportunities for education, break down more of what we recycle, decrease the amount of time goods are WIP. This Project is will be done when we feal we have created a new(ish) flow/process that is extreamley flexable and we feal has shown enouff tangable results.
Assumptions and Constraints
- this is a good idea
- $$$ and time wont be a problem
- People resist change
Large Projected Tasks
Create Movable Storage
- design Build mobile units for finished Goods (could be computers, keyboards, Printers, Monitors....)
- I invition large boxes that could hold between 9 and 12 computers. Build these boxes/shelving so they can be moved around by pallet Jack. This will make the unit moveable and stackable. These boxes would be stored in the classroom.
- pallets fight with pallet jacks, insted of pallets 4x4x4 blocks raising the box off the ground
- installing wheels would require more maintenance to the units
- We may be able to work out something with the rebuild center to create these boxes
- fill these boxes with the goal of building computers faster than they come in.
Creat 2 double doors into the WHSE.
- increas the size of the current door
- creat a new door from recieving into the WHSE.
- Guy L. may like to spear head this, he knows how to rent the equipment.
- Find a grant to pay for the rentel, I bet we have the best grant wrighters in north america
- Printers could more easley be recieved into recieving
- This would creat the opertunity for recieving and eval to use pallets to transport things to recycling
Perposed Events to creat full space usage and better product flow
I have a picture next to me that I will attempt to incert
- Creat movable storage, initaly for finnished freekboxes, and parts for the stoor.
- frees up 50% of space where the freekboxes are currentley stored.
- Creat 2 double doors into the WHSE
- build a wall going north south in the east room of advanced recieving leaving enouf space on the west side for a stair case leading up.
- Move keyboard, mouse and sound testing into new space located in recieving (useing movable storage idea)
- put in Temp shelving where keyboard testing is in now
- Move MacLand to the first section of that shelf, The rest of the shelf is advanced recieving.
- items in advanced recieving should be sorted and moved as fast as regular recieving
- note: new tasks for advanced recieving could include finding manuals for the items on the internet so they may sell quicker in the stoor.
- creat better shelving in recieving to hold boxes to sort loose items that come in.
- use strong visual Q's on the boxes to show what goes in them and where they should go. Creat a system for easley changing the purpose of a box. For exampel a plastic slot to slide the instructions into. creat a situation where somone could move a couple of these boxes to there next location with out many questions.
matteo has a few steps to add in here.
- move double door in build to the south east corner of build entering into current class room.leaving single door into new new offices...
- Move laptopLand to behind the stage
- move card sorting to where the current hub testing is (agenst the stairs)sorted cards go on shelving that can be accessed from bolth sides of advanced testing
- make a pass through Kitchen? A Oso idea I think?
- creat srotage for server class boxes and locate them where MacLand is(was).
- dissassemble the black hole!
- move goods ready to be recycled to where the black hole was.
- move boxes ready to be built storage to where the goods ready to be recycled was
- now that I think of the whole plan this may not work caus we may be recycling so so mutch, well see
- move Eval one and two into the WHSE between the two double doors, storing recyclers on a pallet, putting good boxes directley on the shelf. overflow storage above this long desk?
- Move moniter testing to the center of the WHSE
- Move Printerland to the north east corner of the WHSE moving ups land?
- caveiot UPSland can not move for safty reasons, the fan in there area quickley removes toxic gasses when needed
- Set up method for printer dissasemble
- Nock down wall between build and the old eval increasing build to include server build
- creat advanced recieving work table along the east wall of the WHSE
- locked storage under and over
- basic testing for VCRs dvds maybe
- Manual look up computer