When I first started I was working in a production lab. I was the opaquer, polisher, glazer, and did 15 units of captek copings per day. usually 9 hour days. then after a while I stopped doing Captek and started building. I was doing of the rest of the auxiliary work and 10 units. I realize that the quality was not good ( as good as I am now) but I was doing it. The average number of units that they wanted from you at that lab was 14. I left there and went into management. Then a few years ago I had to go back to production. It took a few weeks but I was able to get back to doing 12-14 units a day and finish the frames (10 hour day). I think that quality was good maybe 7-8. now, I feel that I have more skill as a ceramist ( I can do 9's consistently) but Im back into management. So I just wanted to know what everybody's thoughts were. It seems to me that 12-14 seems to be the magic number!!
Do you think, if the ceramist asks, I should give them more work? say they are done and want to start doing more units per day. should I let them do as many units as they want until the quality starts to suffer? I dont want them to burn out!