I am not management but do get to quote jobs. Right now work is really slow and half the shop has been laid off with many machines sitting idle. I hate to say it but it looks like our leaders have no interest in finding more work, at least not from other industries or customers. So I was hoping I could have done kind of sample email that I could send myself in an act of self preservation to local shops and beyond.
Any kind of help is appreciated.
Don't worry trust your people,I was in similar situations
when worked for big companies,always had the same misconception
that they didn't care to bring in more work,but now that have
own shop my views have changed so much,because its not easy thing to do, i try and keep trying but competition is fierce,
lots of cheap work not worth taking it,best thing for your place when slow,improve quality circles,better work flow,paint
old equipment, and if money is left develop a product using your skills and equipment that other may not have.
Just look a european tooling how nice is designed,I think next
step would be implement high quality tooling and products and
little by little people would recognize as way of improve own
productivity, give you an example,I visit other shop on fridays
for beer gathering and see that nobody uses carts to load up vises on machines due to space"small shops" think of a foldable
cart,tooling as nice as "schunk", just look at the kid doing a
orange vise, I am spechless would like to meet him just to shake his hand and tell him the we need more progressive minds
like him.