I dig that it’s all in one place.
I have had a fantastic idea but no idea how to implement it
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That’s better.
Well, I can’t love something that would make my life difficult 
Lots of great suggestions here but we’ve tried all of them and they have all failed miserably.
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Any time you’re in the Detroit area, please msg me if you would like a tour of our space. Happy to share
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Sounds very reasonable and easy to implement - maybe we could make it ‘blockchain native’ as well? 
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South London Metaspace.
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I feel a ‘Solar Frikin Roadways!’ viral ad coming on.
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Yup, that’s the “shadow board” mentioned earlier. Great example, looks fantastic!
It’s a super useful organisational tool for work as you know everything has a place and it can be grouped consistently (all screwdrivers/spanners in order). It also discourages people leaving stuff laying around since there’s an obvious gap where something should be.
We did it in our workshops at my old job and it worked well.
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Cool. So do we need a bit of wall to put chipboard against?
I think the Arch one shelving, just inside the messy workshop, needs organising the most. So maybe there?
I think a lot of that is destined for the metal shop so might be worth waiting for it to move to its forever home.
Yea, that is the biggest mess but probably wait until a lot of it moves, though some will stay, I am trying to think of an area we can work on now…
What are we waiting for with the move? Any reason we can’t get going with moving the metal shop?
They were waiting to move the big stuff into place first. There is a planned machine switcheroo i think too.
Only other think I can think of is RFID stickers.
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Yea we now have the final list of machines, I will post a plan!
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What I like about this particular shadow board is that the “shadows” are printed paper, not sharpie marker on the wood itself. The collection of tools will change all the time so it’s nice to be able to change the shadows to match.
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I’m thinking a good step towards something like this would be logging all the tools in the messy room shelving. Just a simple spreadsheet with an item list, it’s location within the space, date checked and an optional photo. I’d probably use a Google form to quickly submit items to the spreadsheet. Do we have anything of this sort for hand tools at the moment? And would it be worth me doing?
I say just the messy room shelving for now as that seems like an achievable task for one person in a day.
Unfortunately the locations of things often swap and shift but here’s an inventory Julia and I made last year: List of Metalworking Tools. It covered the whole metal area and messy room tool storage at the time. A good chunk of this will shift to the metal shop as part of the move.
It is of course entirely up to the @electrotechs but I field a fair number of queries about where to find components/do we have x. It would be helpful to have pictures what is in each large scale container with some sort of search.
I am a big fan of shadow boards and Kaizen foam for after the move!
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