Journal
Notes from lines we have stood beside.
These pieces are about books, trays, gauges, and handwriting. They are not instructions for a certificate.
Walk the scrap tray before you draw the chart
At a Bang Pu stamping shop the book and the trays told two different stories about burr and crack. The chart followed the book until someone stood at the tray.
The first article is a guest, not the week
A first-article sheet shows one piece made slowly. It does not show the Thursday when the crimp tool was changed.
Check the gauge before you trust the curve
A sticking dial indicator at a Lat Krabang bench looked like a process shift until the same piece was measured five times.
The Friday pencil on a pouch line
Night-shift shorthand on a Bangkok pouch line used codes the day procedure did not list. Unread pencil stayed unread.