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Guy running the lathe next to me called setup sheets a waste of time, and I have been chewing on it for two weeks
So a new hire on the night shift at our shop in Fort Wayne told me he never writes anything down because "the code is the setup sheet." That bugged me for a while because I write my own sheets on every job, even the repeat ones. The catch is he crashed a fixture two nights ago because he ran an old program from a dusty folder and did not check that we moved the stock stop 0.080 on the last run of that part. I get where he is coming from, nobody wants to stop and type notes at 2am when the spindle is finally making good parts. But when I grab a job we ran six months ago, my sheet is the thing that keeps me from dialing in a vise for 20 minutes guessing at offsets. I am not saying paperwork is fun. I am saying the crash cost him four hours and a $90 end mill. Do you guys write sheets for repeat jobs, or do you trust the program to carry everything?
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