A thought on the media time-management/short form: The algorithm is ruthless. You know this. I would recommend a second channel dedicated to shorts and short -form. Yes, it's a whole new channel with no audience yet, but from what I've experienced and also seem from other UA-camrs, it will be better in the long run. Keep your long videos on "Out of Darts", and make a second channel called "Out of Short Darts" where all the short form content can be found. Edit for some more context: Essentially UA-cam has two algorithms; shorts and traditional. And it will digitally assign you as either one type of channel or the other. Mixing them tends to throw off the engagement numbers.
I'll take a closer look into this! Thank you! Logistically, it may be challenging to implement this, but we'll do some more research about what's the best way forward.
The problem I have with 'Shorts' is, I can't scroll the curser back to repeat something you said or showed, I have to re-watch the whole thing from the beginning, I can't download it for later reference. I hope you keep your build guides to 'longform'. I guess your reviews will be short form, I'm not sure I would enjoy that as much. Just some honest feedback.
@@mainstay. I'm not sure how long ago they implemented it, but you can scrub through shorts by dragging along the red progress bar at the bottom. Before that feature, yes, I agree it was slightly annoying. As for our tutorials, we will always have a crystal-clear longform version for people to use, even if we also make a hyper-cut for shorts. Thanks for your feedback and happy modding!
As an assembly engineer, i love seeing this kind of content. It's exciting to see progress you have made on your lean journey and I am looking forward to seeing how you and your team tackle the remaining lean opportunities. What tools do you have to help identify and implement lean improvements going forword?
We've recently added on a new person, and we've taken about as much time training him as he has helped develop better systems. Since he hadn't worked in the previous system, he could better identify places we could improve. In the future, we're looking at having co-workers trade places for a day and timing tasks in order to achieve that goal similarly and more sustainably.
not the most important, but a suggestion for the "grocery": have a "fast mover" (most frequently used parts) in the lowest row, and then the rest sorted alphanumerically. This is common in pharmacy practice, but there are also way more drugs than bins from what I saw in the clip
Luke, I really love these LEAN videos. Each one has helped me get my home workspace more productive! Thank you for sharing him what you’ve learned and letting us launchpad off your lessons learned!
Love everything. My inly critique, keep paper towels in the bathroom. Hand dryers can bebkinda gross, sometimes something disposable is best. Also. Wanna keep towels? Hire a laundry service... Or make your kids do it.
We still use a minimal amount of paper towels for sanitizing and other purposes that require single use. We also keep on top of daily bathroom cleaning, so we can confidently say the hand dryer (and the wall below it) is cleaner than in most other implementations.
Thanks for the video. Learned a lot for our own operations. I am thinking about dropping some SKU's too, yet, as we also do lots of print on demand its hard to decide wether to do it, as the parts don't need any storage (besides some space on the SD card). Of course, if the items turn out to be somehow faulty and there are complaints it seems to be easier to just remove them from shop instead of trying to fix everything. Would appreciate your thoughts on that! Greetings Vlad from Ausgeknipst
Good idea on the tape. I once had a package from the Blaster Barn held by the USPS for about 2 weeks I think because his tape says Blaster Barn. Plus can you introduce your crew in a video so we can know who we are talking to?
As an engineering student who's taken a few classes on advanced manufacturing I absolutely love these videos. You guys are super skilled with all this stuff.
Taking care of that muda, mura, and muri in one video! You might not be at the scale for this yet, but I love Impinj's RFID systems for tracking movement and asset/inventory locations. It can reveal where a lot of other inefficiencies lie and makes inventory management easier.
Will the MTB Honey Badger motors be coming back? I really like them for basic Stryfe modification and I noticed that they are out of stock with you and with Containment Crew. Also, I really enjoy the behind-the-scenes look. It is very interesting as well as helpful as I acquire more tools and modify more complicated blasters with more parts.
Blastertech decided to pause the production of their wholesale hobby motors indefinitely. Because of that we can only sell what MTB motors we currently have in stock. The Honey Badgers just happened to be the first to go out of stock. We might design a replacement motor in the future, but we don't have an ETA that would be helpful to anyone. For anyone needing a motor with similar stats to the Honey Badger, Meishels and Fang ReVAMPeds will do in a pinch, though neither have quite the same RPM. Glad you enjoyed the video, though!
I'm sorry... this is the warehouse at it's WORST?? Frankly amazing. I've never been in a workspace that seemed so tidy. I'm reworking my workspace right now and this (along with a never ending stream of Adam Savage videos) is inspiring.
I mean this in the nicest way, but if you think just buying a lot more expensive tech is simplifying you missed the memo. That’s a lot of extra expensive label printers that aren’t needed. That kind of Expense spending kills businesses in the long run.
I love the short form videos when you are doing educational stuff. I still refer back to older videos when im stuck with something. Also my order was just sent in for more stuff. Hope it is a good kickoff for 2024.
I love every lean and behind the scene video and OOD has always been a inspiration to me for how to improve my own. Thanks Luke for showing this and I am buying the books❤
I really wish you guys would of put a survey out there for what people use/what people want. Just cutting 200 skus is kind of rough. Like i went to build a blaster, the Printables linked to all sorts of your items, but none of the are in stock. This could be a big issue moving forward.....
Thanks for your feedback! Would you care to link to this blaster on Printables? We've thought very carefully when removing SKUs from our site, and only after looking at how many we actually sell on average in a three month period. In a way, these sales analytics are a survey of what people want and use, and keeping something on the site that only four people order one of in a year is just not practical. However, if you think that there's something that's glaringly missing from our site, shoot us an email! If there is sufficient demand, we might just add it to the site in the future. outofdarts.com/pages/contact
I literally look forward to these videos more than anything else. I love you and your crew's ideas and commitment to continuous improvement!
A thought on the media time-management/short form:
The algorithm is ruthless. You know this. I would recommend a second channel dedicated to shorts and short -form. Yes, it's a whole new channel with no audience yet, but from what I've experienced and also seem from other UA-camrs, it will be better in the long run. Keep your long videos on "Out of Darts", and make a second channel called "Out of Short Darts" where all the short form content can be found.
Edit for some more context: Essentially UA-cam has two algorithms; shorts and traditional. And it will digitally assign you as either one type of channel or the other. Mixing them tends to throw off the engagement numbers.
I'll take a closer look into this! Thank you! Logistically, it may be challenging to implement this, but we'll do some more research about what's the best way forward.
The organization is beautiful!
as far as videos go, hope yall continue doing long-form reviews, they're some of the best reviews out there
Love to see how you all improve.
Love it, such a cool operation you've built!
Thanks for watching! What are your thoughts? Do you have anything you think we should implement? Let us know down below!
The mic quality is pretty rough on that little DJI cam. Sounds super compressed and isnt particularly pleasant to listen to
Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a listen when I'm editing the next video! - Perry
The problem I have with 'Shorts' is, I can't scroll the curser back to repeat something you said or showed, I have to re-watch the whole thing from the beginning, I can't download it for later reference. I hope you keep your build guides to 'longform'. I guess your reviews will be short form, I'm not sure I would enjoy that as much. Just some honest feedback.
@@mainstay. I'm not sure how long ago they implemented it, but you can scrub through shorts by dragging along the red progress bar at the bottom. Before that feature, yes, I agree it was slightly annoying.
As for our tutorials, we will always have a crystal-clear longform version for people to use, even if we also make a hyper-cut for shorts. Thanks for your feedback and happy modding!
As an assembly engineer, i love seeing this kind of content. It's exciting to see progress you have made on your lean journey and I am looking forward to seeing how you and your team tackle the remaining lean opportunities. What tools do you have to help identify and implement lean improvements going forword?
We've recently added on a new person, and we've taken about as much time training him as he has helped develop better systems. Since he hadn't worked in the previous system, he could better identify places we could improve. In the future, we're looking at having co-workers trade places for a day and timing tasks in order to achieve that goal similarly and more sustainably.
Need to keep long form video.
not the most important, but a suggestion for the "grocery": have a "fast mover" (most frequently used parts) in the lowest row, and then the rest sorted alphanumerically. This is common in pharmacy practice, but there are also way more drugs than bins from what I saw in the clip
Luke,
I really love these LEAN videos. Each one has helped me get my home workspace more productive! Thank you for sharing him what you’ve learned and letting us launchpad off your lessons learned!
Love everything. My inly critique, keep paper towels in the bathroom. Hand dryers can bebkinda gross, sometimes something disposable is best. Also. Wanna keep towels? Hire a laundry service... Or make your kids do it.
We still use a minimal amount of paper towels for sanitizing and other purposes that require single use. We also keep on top of daily bathroom cleaning, so we can confidently say the hand dryer (and the wall below it) is cleaner than in most other implementations.
@@outofdarts LOVE IT!!!
Yes yes yes keep doing these videos. oh also completely separate what happened to the 950 Lipo batteries?
I like how everyone is trying to simplify everything
So many changes, we love it! WAY TO GO!
Absolutely love these videos! Thank you. Please more video as about video making 🙏
Thanks for the video. Learned a lot for our own operations. I am thinking about dropping some SKU's too, yet, as we also do lots of print on demand its hard to decide wether to do it, as the parts don't need any storage (besides some space on the SD card). Of course, if the items turn out to be somehow faulty and there are complaints it seems to be easier to just remove them from shop instead of trying to fix everything. Would appreciate your thoughts on that! Greetings Vlad from Ausgeknipst
Good idea on the tape. I once had a package from the Blaster Barn held by the USPS for about 2 weeks I think because his tape says Blaster Barn. Plus can you introduce your crew in a video so we can know who we are talking to?
Automagically. I will have to use that more often
The shop looks much more organized and spacious since the open house
Love to watch all your video very resourceful and good info.. do you have any promo code for this year? Haha
When I got a package recently from you guys I immediately thought the out of darts tape looked alarming to people who don't know what it is :P
What an absolute unit, literally...
what the heck is that MXL monster of a (i think flywheeler) blaster thats on the shelf!?!?!
Pet project in progress... We may even get to share it one of these days, lol.
As an engineering student who's taken a few classes on advanced manufacturing I absolutely love these videos. You guys are super skilled with all this stuff.
👏FULL👏SHOP👏TOUR👏PLEASE👏
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We're glad you are subscribed, no maty what brought you here!
I am watching this video to help me with my operations management class
Hope it proves insightful!
This was weirdly interesting and your energy and excitement for the changes is infectious :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Personally, I really, really dislike Shorts; and for whatever it's worth, will not watch them.
And for what it's worth, we're never going to completely stop making long-form videos! We're just going to also make shorts
@@outofdarts One can hope. But never is a long time.
Taking care of that muda, mura, and muri in one video!
You might not be at the scale for this yet, but I love Impinj's RFID systems for tracking movement and asset/inventory locations. It can reveal where a lot of other inefficiencies lie and makes inventory management easier.
Will the MTB Honey Badger motors be coming back? I really like them for basic Stryfe modification and I noticed that they are out of stock with you and with Containment Crew. Also, I really enjoy the behind-the-scenes look. It is very interesting as well as helpful as I acquire more tools and modify more complicated blasters with more parts.
Blastertech decided to pause the production of their wholesale hobby motors indefinitely. Because of that we can only sell what MTB motors we currently have in stock. The Honey Badgers just happened to be the first to go out of stock.
We might design a replacement motor in the future, but we don't have an ETA that would be helpful to anyone.
For anyone needing a motor with similar stats to the Honey Badger, Meishels and Fang ReVAMPeds will do in a pinch, though neither have quite the same RPM.
Glad you enjoyed the video, though!
I'm sorry... this is the warehouse at it's WORST?? Frankly amazing. I've never been in a workspace that seemed so tidy. I'm reworking my workspace right now and this (along with a never ending stream of Adam Savage videos) is inspiring.
So... everything I did/do for Drac. :)
Looks great Luke. Def motivated me to get s free things off my to-do list.
I mean this in the nicest way, but if you think just buying a lot more expensive tech is simplifying you missed the memo.
That’s a lot of extra expensive label printers that aren’t needed.
That kind of Expense spending kills businesses in the long run.
Love behind the scenes videos. Thank you for sharing with us.
OoD
Yes these videos are super cool. Blasters and LEAN techniques sounds good to me. Keep.up the great work.
Just when I think I can't love OOD more. You just keep firing on all cylinders, Luke. Keep driving innovation in that operation. Also: cool footage!
I don't know about this advice. Lean is pretty easy to get addicted to.
Oh... you mean the organizational strategy...
I love the short form videos when you are doing educational stuff. I still refer back to older videos when im stuck with something. Also my order was just sent in for more stuff. Hope it is a good kickoff for 2024.
I love every lean and behind the scene video and OOD has always been a inspiration to me for how to improve my own. Thanks Luke for showing this and I am buying the books❤
Luke seems to really like lean. Ig he can't get enough of the purple stuff.
love the Lean video's! Always something to learn from them, and great to see the progress.
Are you still using Prusa printers?
I really wish you guys would of put a survey out there for what people use/what people want. Just cutting 200 skus is kind of rough. Like i went to build a blaster, the Printables linked to all sorts of your items, but none of the are in stock. This could be a big issue moving forward.....
Thanks for your feedback! Would you care to link to this blaster on Printables?
We've thought very carefully when removing SKUs from our site, and only after looking at how many we actually sell on average in a three month period. In a way, these sales analytics are a survey of what people want and use, and keeping something on the site that only four people order one of in a year is just not practical.
However, if you think that there's something that's glaringly missing from our site, shoot us an email! If there is sufficient demand, we might just add it to the site in the future.
outofdarts.com/pages/contact
Lean Six Sigma green belt here
Why is there dislikes on this?
hype
Love these videos, really helps me with planning.