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Terrible Instructions - Confusion!

2/4/2017

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These are instructions for a flat pack desk, and​ there's much to dislike about them. On the left hand side, we see that the unfortunate builder of this desk is instructed to assemble five separate pieces of the desk, then set them aside. In practice, this means the builder will need space not only to build the desk itself, but also space to store the pieces he/she has assembled early. This is on top of the extra therbligs needed to put down, locate, and then pick back up the pieces built prematurely.

Basically this is a pictorial version of the cautionary tale / cabinet-building episode in ​All I Need to Know about Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage.​

​For the curious readers, these weren't IKEA instructions. IKEA does two things very well; instructions, and meatballs.
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