Jen (the MakingChips manager) here 👋 starting my first time at @fabtechexpo by watching @raeripple create something 🔥
Where do I need to head next? Let me know in the comments 👇
#fabtech #fabtech2024 #Fabrication #welding #manufacturing #makingchips
☕ The two biggest complaints in any business are always the quality of the toilet paper and the coffee.
Joking aside—coffee is a crucial part of any shop’s function. You need to have good coffee on the shop floor.
Mike Franz and his Co-Founder Amy Teal set out to do just that when they created ShopFloor Coffee.
Hear all about their mission and vision to drive workforce development in manufacturing in this episode of MakingChips!
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader
👏 You’ve got the cost of a job all figured out but now you want to run that job lights out. How do you adjust things so your costs are accurate? 🤖 You can quote the job with a robot for the running time (with direct overhead costs for the robot) m
👏 You’ve got the cost of a job all figured out but now you want to run that job lights out. How do you adjust things so your costs are accurate?
🤖 You can quote the job with a robot for the running time (with direct overhead costs for the robot) minus the labor costs. But don’t give up margin because you’re automating your process.
👌 Accurately estimate your costs and make the margins a completely separate decision (based on the market, customers, etc.)
🎙️ Mike Payne shares exactly how they do this in episode #420 of MakingChips #LightsOut.
https://hubs.ly/Q02L162v0
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #ThankAMachinist
✋ What issues are keeping you from automating your shop? Nick’s company struggled with unattended tombstone production. They had to figure out a system to clear out chips so their FMS system didn’t get overrun. 💨 Chip fans weren’t cutting it. S
✋ What issues are keeping you from automating your shop?
Nick’s company struggled with unattended tombstone production. They had to figure out a system to clear out chips so their FMS system didn’t get overrun.
💨 Chip fans weren’t cutting it. So they created a program for their high-pressure coolant system that would run and spray the tombstone and blast off the chips 🚿
👌 That solved one of their biggest automation issues.
🎙️ Learn how you can creatively solve problems to automate your shop in this episode of MakingChips #Lights Out.
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #ThankAMachinist
⚡ Thousands of details have to come together perfectly to make parts 👌 Historically, it was always people who had to stand there and change out parts. But people can adapt to changes. 📣 When you automate, a focus on those minute details is amplifi
⚡ Thousands of details have to come together perfectly to make parts 👌 Historically, it was always people who had to stand there and change out parts. But people can adapt to changes.
📣 When you automate, a focus on those minute details is amplified. If you have cutters breaking, and chips pilling up and clogging coolant you’ll never have process stability. You need to reduce as many process variables as possible before automating 👏
🎙️ What else do you need to do before you can automate? Paul Van Metre, Nick Goellner, and Mike Payne dissect the details in episode #420 of #MakingChips.
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #ThankAMachinist
🚨 Parts have a target, a critical limit, and a wear limit. Once your tool begins to wear out, your machine monitoring system can alert you to replace it. If you don’t have a system in place and goes too far and you break an insert, you have to stop e
🚨 Parts have a target, a critical limit, and a wear limit. Once your tool begins to wear out, your machine monitoring system can alert you to replace it.
If you don’t have a system in place and goes too far and you break an insert, you have to stop everything and get the tool immediately, leading to increased downtime 👎
💡 That’s also why you should buy machines with the biggest tool magazines possible. It allows you to run a high mix of work and utilize pallet systems.
🎙️ Learn how you can get systems in place to run #LightsOut efficiently in episode #418 and #419 of #MakingChips!
https://hubs.ly/Q02JTV4_0
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #ManufacturingLeader #Automation
💡 POV: It’s time to change the industry’s mindset about automation. It’s okay if a machine runs slower if we can load it up with the ability to do three different jobs overnight. You can embrace a mixed versus fixed mindset and load a tombstone w
💡 POV: It’s time to change the industry’s mindset about automation.
It’s okay if a machine runs slower if we can load it up with the ability to do three different jobs overnight.
You can embrace a mixed versus fixed mindset and load a tombstone with different parts.
It’s time to free up our operators to do more valuable tasks.
If you’re on the fence about how #automation can drive business results, listen to episode #419 of #MakingChips.
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #LightsOut
https://hubs.ly/Q02JV8wB0
🚀 Here’s our controversial take: We believe that “automated” is more important than “operated”. It’s a stance that scares a lot of operators—but it shouldn’t. ⚡ In this episode of MakingChips, Kaleb Mertz, Mike Payne, and Nick Goellne
🚀 Here’s our controversial take: We believe that “automated” is more important than “operated”. It’s a stance that scares a lot of operators—but it shouldn’t.
⚡ In this episode of MakingChips, Kaleb Mertz, Mike Payne, and Nick Goellner return to dive into part loading and pallet loading, a mixed vs fixed mindset, and why predictive is better than reactive.
🎙️ It'll all connect back to every shop's end goal: business results. Don’t miss it!
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #Automation #LightsOut
You want to run your shop and make money while you’re sleeping, right? To do that, you need to implement #automation and need to run #LightsOut efficiently. So in this episode of #MakingChips, we help connect the dots between advanced machining and busi
You want to run your shop and make money while you’re sleeping, right? To do that, you need to implement #automation and need to run #LightsOut efficiently.
So in this episode of #MakingChips, we help connect the dots between advanced machining and business results. This is one you can't miss. #Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #ManufacturingLeader
https://hubs.ly/Q02H-Mmm0
Experienced machine operators change the feed rate based on chip load. As they feel a heavier chip load, they can slow down. If there’s less, they can speed up. The ultimate goal is to make sure you aren’t destroying tools (because tools are expensive
Experienced machine operators change the feed rate based on chip load. As they feel a heavier chip load, they can slow down. If there’s less, they can speed up.
The ultimate goal is to make sure you aren’t destroying tools (because tools are expensive). How do you optimize machines to run #LightsOut? We dissect the topic in episode #418 of #MakingChips!
https://hubs.ly/Q02H-Xxg0
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #ManufacturingLeader #LightsOut #Automation
Let’s say you have a talented machine operator who can sit there and modify the feeds and speeds based on what they’re hearing. They’re able to increase tool life, decrease cycle times, lower scrapped parts, and increase lights-out capability. But t
Let’s say you have a talented machine operator who can sit there and modify the feeds and speeds based on what they’re hearing.
They’re able to increase tool life, decrease cycle times, lower scrapped parts, and increase lights-out capability. But those proficient machine operators aren’t the norm anymore.
That’s why machine monitoring is important. But machine monitoring is only one piece of the puzzle. Learn what else you need to do to improve efficiency in this episode of Lights out with Nick Goellner, Mike Payne, and Kaleb Mertz.
#Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #MakingChips #ManufacturingLeader #LightsOut #Automation
💡 Mike’s team used to joke, “Oh no! Mike is going on vacation!” because every time he went on a trip, he’d come up with a laundry list of ideas to try (and send to-do lists to his team). ⚡ But he believes that some of the best things he’s d
💡 Mike’s team used to joke, “Oh no! Mike is going on vacation!” because every time he went on a trip, he’d come up with a laundry list of ideas to try (and send to-do lists to his team).
⚡ But he believes that some of the best things he’s done in his career are born from those trips. He shares why in this episode of #MakingChips. #Manufacturing #MetalworkingNation #ManufacturingLeader
https://hubs.ly/Q02HdD-T0
