Business of Machining

Topics:

• oil failure on Okuma horizontal
• Grimsmo's Kern got a new tool changer dampener
• vacuum pump for CNC Router
• all about returning products
• process bins!
• drilling an angled hole
• logging informati…

Topics:

• Grimsmo's CNC Router
• Saunders got a Saga pen for Christmas
• Machining copper tips and tricks
• process bins

Topics:

• Saunders is getting a Willemin!  
• Purchase process, options chosen, etc.
• Machine shop insurance
• Saunders python script for tool setup is working!
• ChatGPT and Dall-E

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• Surface grinding blades, milling fixture plates, flatness flatness flatness!
• ISO9001 certification
• Implementing procedures through the shop
• Dedicate tools for dedicated parts
• Inventory count
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Topics:

• New full-time employee at SMW
• Hiring and firing
• Grimsmo's lathe machinist taking a month vacation
• really tough week at SMW
• complicatons of robots
• sharing your vision
• Fusion 360 video
• Growi…

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• Saunders went to North Carolina, shop ran well without him!
• Autodesk event
• Grimsmo working on improving his Kern, toured a flavor factory
• Saunders toured an egg factory
• Tracking process flow…

Topics:

• I love lathes
• Planning workflow on automated CNC machines
• Saunders updating fixtures
• Grimsmo's router and custom foam
• custom oil bottles for nano oil

Topics:

• Grimsmo's CNC router is coming together
• Design review meetings
• Custom Fusion 360 tool management script!
• Willemin coolant or oil.  
• IMTS tooling claim
• PNMU insert for 4140

Topics:

• year in review
• packaging, costs
• Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing
• Routers, Willemin, etc.
• GoPro and audio technology
• Selling used CNC machines
• "Greg" buying manufacturing companies

Topics:

• Saunders got 2 new Haas machines delivered for their training classes
• Grimsmo building their CNC router
• printing with TPU flexible filament
• Taco Bell and Okuma crashes
• recording quality audi…

Topics:

• Grimsmo's Willemin machine
• dealing with tough conversations
• Creating a metrology lab
• Mill-Turn machines, Tsugami, Willemin, Mazak
• Long term thinking
• Reverse osmosis water systems for coolant…

Topics:

• Designing a chip conveyor
• replacing a Blum probe
• costs to service machinery
• stop using e-mail for internal communication
• duplicate SKUs, Shopify

Topics

• Saunders running his horizontal mill 18 hours a day
• Making custom Porsche parts
• kids in the shop
• Grimsmo crunched the probe tip on his Speedio with custom programming
• Chip management on the S…

Topics

• Grimsmo releasing a new case for their Saga printer
• 3d printing for production
• cardboard packaging
• Autodesk Fusion meetup in December https://www.dsi-mfg.com/fusion-summit-2022
• multiple comp…

Topics:

• Machining is the coolest thing ever
• "failing as a business leader if we don't purge our junk"
• "what do I want in the next 6 months" 
• how to hire and train new people quickly?
• Variance accoun…

Topics:

• "The only constant is change"
• Near fatal car accident for SMW employee and how it affects the company
• Saunders' wife filling in
• perpetual biggest failure?
• can do great things when able to fo…

Topics

• Fired up after IMTS
• Authenticity in marketing
• Willemin booth at IMTS, all about lathes!
• Takeaways from the show
• shop update video
• Mini chip conveyor on the Speedio machine
• Check valve on cool…

Topics:

• Richlite
• purchasing high dollar items and utilizing cash to your benefit
• Joe Rogan and Zuck Podcast
• "I've won"
• philosophy of business
• Grimsmo is in love with his Speedio machine!
• Zero point …

Topics:

• IMTS trade show
• Willemin machines
• classic growing problems. Chip management and recycling
• Machine prices at trade shows
• Grimsmo working on the speedio
• How to teach and train your team high l…