Jig before batch, not after the first problem
The welding jig was built at D14, from the approved prototype.
If skippedWithout it, unit 19 would have been 4 mm wider than unit 1, and nobody would have noticed until they stood side by side.
120 fixtures,
one opening date,
no second batch
The difficulty was never one fixture. It was making unit 87 the same object as unit 1, after three weeks and a plating run.
Material recorded per job: 304 or 316L, fabricated and trial-assembled in our Foshan factory.
- Scope
- 120 pieces
- Schedule
- 31 d
- On site
- 0 cuts
- Stores
- 1
01
The job
A single flagship store: 120 fixtures across four zones, a cash wrap, a slotted wall system, and signage surrounds. Stainless steel with oak and stone by other trades.
One store, one opening date. There was no phased handover to hide behind.
Why it is a case file
Because the difficulty was not in any single fixture. It was in making unit 87 the same object as unit 1, after three weeks of production and a plating run.
02
The photographs we can stand behind
Two frames, and one we would rather leave empty than fill with a photograph of something else.
FIG. 02.1Counter and back bar, the bottle display set into the wall
FIG. 02.2A lift entrance on the ground floor, the surround set into stone
02.3 · to be shotThe 120 fixtures themselves, laid out by zone on the shop floor before packing. This file is about repetition — unit 87 matching unit 1 — and until we have that photograph we are not going to put a different building in this space.
03
The record
- Brief
- Flagship store fit-out, single opening date, four zones fitted in sequence.
- Scope
- 120 fixtures — display frames, cash wrap, slotted wall system, plinths, signage surrounds.
- Prototype
- One finished unit approved before the batch. Welding jigs built from that prototype, not from the drawing.
- Production
- Batch held to the jig. First part of every sub-batch measured against the prototype.
- Finish
- One PVD batch for all 120 units. We waited four days for line capacity rather than split it.
- Packing
- Cartons labelled to zone, not to production order. A location drawing inside each carton.
- On site
- Zero field cuts. Two units re-made before packing — plinth mitres opened 1 mm on the irregular shapes.
- Delay
- None against the contract date.
Figures in this record are being confirmed with the client before publication and are marked in the drawing set. We publish a case file only when the numbers can be checked — a wrong job record is a factual error, not a typo.
04
What we would do differently
Hold the plating line, not the schedule
We lost four days waiting for one PVD batch and gained a colour match across 120 units.
If skippedTwo batches would have been two tints, side by side on the same wall, under store lighting.
Pack by zone, not by production order
Cartons follow the install sequence, which is zone by zone.
If skippedBy production order, the crew opens every crate to find the four pieces for the first zone.
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