Ortofon - Factory Tour video

If you were ever curious about the mfg. of Ortofon cartridges check this out.

 

Thanks for posting. Boy would I hate to have one of those jobs. Imagine doing that all day for years.

 

I would need a good neck massage every night...

 

Wow! Thanks for posting.I appreciate everyone at Orofon's hard work. I spent the day yesterday enjoying my 2M Black on my Project 2B experience, playing everything from Sioxsie to, CRB, to Fripp/Eno. My son asked me to turn off the Fripp/Eno and I promptly replied "No!"

 

How do people manage to do such technical work with those long nails!? I can hardly stand typing on a keyboard when my nails are even a little bit too long.

 

Women have always been better at precision work.

 

That doesn't answer my question in the least, lol.

 

It’s not like that.

At Ortofon, as in many, many such factories in Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland and other European countries, staff take frequent breaks, work spaces are full of daylight (which means less need for general artifical lighting), working conditions are highly social, benefits are excellent, national and state/province universal health care systems are in place, and there is far less employee transience as a result. Pay, benefits, vacation time and working conditions all contribute to much higher employment satisfaction rates.

Conditioned attitudes in Canada and the U.S. makes us react by thinking that the staff observed in the video are stuck at their workstations for hours on end, but that’s the exact opposite of what goes on.

Frankly, if you go into any number of different craft-based business in Canada and the U.S., you’ll also find staff who’ve been around for many, many years because the employer (the company culture) is advanced and considerate and profitable and undersands that you will never hang on to the best people by working them to the bone. The product prices end up being somewhat higher than similar products produced under harsher working conditions by massive operations offshore, but the quality is better from the craft operations, there aren’t any shortcuts around the specifications, and your end customers are using a product that is designed, provisioned, assembled and tested by people with great attitudes and a proprietary interest in the quality of what they’re producing.

 

If you look a bit closer at various scenes in the video, you’ll probably notice that only a couple of the assembly staff have long fingernails. One woman in particular whose parts manipulation was shown close-up, was doing work that simply didn’t require fingertip use.

It’s also true that many women who are handling parts and making small assemblies entirely with tweezers and finger taps can grow their nails as long as they like. It doesn’t affect tweezer use, and it doesn’t affect finger taps. The same is true for watch movement parts handling and assembly. Putting together certain assemblies does dictate shorter fingernails, but for many of the workstation tasks it doesn’t matter.

 

Plus, men are not used to it, women are.

Take a simple office task like @DyersEve726 mentioned, typing. Although we don't see that many typist's today. Back in the 40' & 50's, the workforce had many women who were typists and dressed up for the workplace every day and had long nails.

Men are prone to have short fingernails and tend to type more with their fingertips at more of a vertical angle, women with longer fingernails will use more of the pads on their fingers.

And, back then, most of the typewriters were manual!