Walk the Floor
Operations, as it actually happens.
A drawn series about the gap between the boardroom’s version of operations and the floor’s. The companies in these panels don’t exist. The situations do.
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The film
From the boardroom to an ordinary Tuesday.
The panels are single moments. The film is the arc they sit inside: a decision taken upstairs, a Monday morning in front of the whole factory, an empty floor, machines arriving somewhere else, and an ordinary Tuesday at the board where none of it shows any more.
Nothing here is a case study and no client is named. The scenes are composites of situations I have worked in — closures, relocations, insourcing, ramp-ups, turnarounds. They are drawn rather than filmed for the same reason the panels are: it keeps the attention on what happened instead of who it happened to.
If one of these situations looks like your week, that is the whole point of the series.
Two minutes · no sound · drawn with the same hand as the panels
Latest · No. 14
Four Minutes
The shift changes. The fault stays.
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No. 13
The Gate
The meeting is booked. The fix isn’t.
No. 12
The Best Operator
Promoted on paper. Still on the machine.
No. 11
The Standard
The sheet is signed. The habit isn’t.
No. 10
Thursday
Clean for Thursday. Dirty by Friday.
No. 9
The Report
Four hundred pages. Nobody on the floor.
No. 8
Lead Times
The steel arrives. The skill doesn’t.
No. 7
Eight Percent
Cut in one column. Paid in another.
No. 6
The Last Crate
The machines travel. The know-how doesn’t.
No. 5
Off the Shelf
Optimal on paper. Nine weeks in reality.
No. 4
Eighteen Months
The machines waited. The training didn’t.
No. 3
On Time
The number is real. So is the invoice.
No. 2
The Buffer
The racks are full. The order is late.
No. 1
The Handover
The project ends. The list doesn’t.
Which company did what is something I walk through in a call, not on a website.