Business of Machining

TOPICS

• Family stuff
• Kern updates, running great!
• Saunders Puck Chuck, heat treat, tolerances
• Surface grinder
• Coolant management, foaming, water management

TOPICS

• Saunders went to Germany
•  Grimsmo Kern spindle fix update!
•  Chat GPT student
•  PFG Live youtube channel
•  Deutch science museum in Munich
• Buying new equipment and growing a company
•  shop floods
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TOPICS:

• We want to see everyone Win
• Shop rags
• Kern spindle is coming in 2 weeks
• Willemin updates!
• The future of manufacturing?
• ChatGPT
• heat treating parts

TOPICS:

• Kern update, it is running!
• Planned downtime
• Lost packages in shipping
• Lapping and flatness
• Saunders air conditioner fix
• Fixturing Ideas
• Haas purple grease

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TOPICS

• Willemin machines are awesome!
• Yates precision IG link
• Kern needs a new spindle
• Saunders had to fix a Helicoil

TOPICS:

• The cost of team trips and lunches
• Grimsmo visits the Elliott Matsuura Joint Open House
• Youtube!
• Grimsmo's CMM
• Prototyping SMW zero point fixtures

TOPICS:

• Removing yourself from the company
• Okuma tool load monitoring
• SMW purge of old stuff
• Gridfinity!
• Process bins
• Haas lubrication system

We're selling some equipment, workholding, etc!  Info…

TOPICS:

• The life of a business
• Unwillingness to let go of control
• Giving a tour to Toyota employees
• Storing production tools
• Selling unused tools
• Process bins!
• Chip build up on the Okuma

Topics:

• SMW Okuma is 1yr old!
• cash budgeting and spending money
• A2 bushings heat treat
• Formlabs resin printer
• Willemin making the Saga clip
• Fire hazards with oil machines
• Process bins!

Topics:

• MTDCNC visited Grimsmo
• Net 30 customers
• SMW Zero point system
• Willemin 2d wrap toolpaths
• 140 hours a week of Kern run time
• Fastems 
• Tool life management
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Biscuits with the boss
• Willemin works!  From both teams!
• Pipe organs
• hiring
• Kern crash at Grimsmo
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Interviewing and hiring people
• Lasers!
• Bambu 3D printer
• Shipping processes and job turnover
• Willemin and oil

TOPICS:

• Willemin progresses from both teams!
• Shipping mistakes led to innovation
• Lifestyle creep
• Bambu 3D printer
• dedicated tools in machines

Topics:

• Origin of John and John meeting in 2015
• Saunders gave a speech: "Ways to automate a shop without spending 6 figures"
• Youtube content!
• Willemin!
• swiss machines and dual channel machines
• DIY…

Topics:

• Willemin updates!
• Cutting wood in Grimsmo's router to clean endmills
• Lasers!!!  
• Saunders had a huge win on the Horizontal
• Cast Iron lapping plates
• Visit to Borne and Co

Topics:

• Lapping plates
• wood blocks in the router
• Willemin!
• Okuma is running deep into the night
• expensive power bills
• Machining Cast iron
• Material inventory
• Sharing responsibilities
• breaking taps
• sa…

Topics:

• Machining cast iron is dumb
• Grimsmo making hand-lapping plates
• Saunders giving a keynote speech on Okuma 2023 Technology Showcase Link: https://www.okuma.com/events/okuma-2023-technology-sho…

Topics:

• "the world is not perfect".  Making parts to tolerance.
• cutting foam
• Insurance claims
• Lasers!
• making small parts with vacuum
• Lapping parts to ultimate flatness
• Willemin install at SMW

Topics:

• Team meetings
• hiring shipping staff and leading a Team
• feedback from listeners
• Detent ball dropper in Grimsmo's Kern works!
• Tool load monitoring on the Okuma
• laser engraving!
• Saunders has th…

Topics:

• Distractions and losing time
• tool life hacks on Haas machines
• Grimsmo's router works!  
• Grimsmo's Willemin works too!  
• Henry Holsters visited SMW
• Inventory and sub assemblies
• Detent ball dr…