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Parametric modeling enables parametric manufacturing. Change my mind.
Proof of concept. Customer pickup in 5 hours, +-0.5 hours from the time of order. Caveat, it's not The Part. It's a simple key. But it's a part holding up a production line in Texas until UPS delivers.
A Halloween party at my sister's house that is completely surrounded by data centers under construction was actually spooky. Boarded up houses for miles made the drive there feel like I was in an apocalyptic movie. I'm no NIMBY, but no one will convince me this is right.
Work crew coming in to start hauling stuff out of the old shop. Three trucks, three trailers, as many trips as we can make.
I'm tickled to death that we executed this flawlessly in our first week of beta testing. We finished within 3 minutes of our promised delivery time, perfectly capturing every step of the process as it happened.
We are faster than 3D printing by a long shot.
Our recently acquired ST10 wins the machine of the week award. Copper, brass, and 304SS all in the same week. A newly acquired Royal 3J collet chuck will replace the 5C to increase our bar capacity.
More progress on the feedback loop to Skynet™️
We are at 100% visibility on the Haas machines. No operator input is required to report back to the MES.
The lathe guys aren't using the lathesim because I asked, they're using it because it's a great tool.
I love software nearly as much as I love ripping metal. Please don't make fun of my crude shop floor layout, I'm terrible at UI.
On our production stuff that we've been running for years, I'm going to manually route the setups as Skynet captures the data. It's a one time human approval process I can do from my desk. I wrote 80% of these programs, I know the part number and operation just from the O word.
New parts will be routed dynamically with some Mastercam post processor magic as the parts progress through the shop.
How it started vs how it's going. We have some tasty 303SS conical bushings just begging to be split. After splitting, the bore collapses, requiring a 3rd operation to complete the 50mm bore. If you make the thread to the book, you're NGMI.
I knew when the second Towlift guy showed up it was going to be an expensive day. The old Baker blew a hydraulic line and the Yale was already down for the same reason. With a couple thousand pounds of plastic coming, it turned into an emergency. All is well, no one hurt, onward.
This is great business. We don't do it on every part, and we don't have any customers that require it. But they love the reports. It's important to publish your calibration certificates even if they are self signed. We will produce on demand the last machine calibration event.
