Business of Machining

TOPICS Knifemaking Tuesdays are back! Multi color 3d printing Breaking drill bits Fusion Trim toolpath Days Off In The Shop is difficult, but wonderful Grimsmo's Speedio and Erowa are hooked up! Heat treating pullstuds

TOPICS:   Grimsmo's plans for the year Naming products Days off in the shop - Best business decision EVER New employee at Grimsmo Knives Releasing new products Tom Lipton mentor Saving time and money

TOPICS:   Days Off In The Shop ("Doits") Taking Purchasing off my plate Tracking and quantifying order issues Magnetic chip separator Variation between fixtures  

TOPICS: Coming in hot for 2024.  Reflecting and planning. Buckling down for a tough year. Grimsmo Buyer's Choice, new knife model Grimsmo's Eumach machines Selling CNC machines How do we buy cleaning supplies Dual color 3d printing for text  

TOPICS:     ·         Wen_mir_langwilig_isch How is lights out affecting cost benefit with the side eye on the time spent for process reliability?   ·         Burnandturnfabrication Name one thing that you didn’t think would change the business but made the company.   ·         Benji_fost  thoughts on haas pulling the UMC 350 from commercial sales?  Do you feel left high and dry?   ·         Felixwin2710 “Hey, I’m currently 19, and I’m in the process of building a small 5-axis cnc, any tips to get to where you are?   ·         A_knights_life Swiss Army knife (do it all, mill turn, etc) machines vs. scalpel machines(kern, swiss lathe)?   ·         Heidelworks What critical steps did you take to go from a small business (solo) to a multi employee business?   ·         DFMtoolworks: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?   ·         Amishsolanki Is Rathi AI? Laurenswijnschenk Can you learn Amish how to not break taps?   Cito_charlie Top 3 book?  Business or non business

TOPICS:   Business existentialism FOCUS Facemill blew up Horizontal deburring

Topics:   Defining the vision of your company Dedicating time to organize the shop Post processors scrap metal company designing a new knife

TOPICS: Distributing tasks among the team SmarterEveryDay Nasa video - watch it! End-of-year goals  DSI video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQ1LLYvaaU 4th-grade class lecture DLC coatings on pens and knives Costing mistakes

TOPICS: Grimsmo's CMM is producing interesting results!   Bad fixtures are bad! Probing too much isn't always a good thing Personal goal failures "The Machine That Changed the World" book The era of lean manufacturing Mailcall request - [email protected] Mentors and advisors  

TOPICS   Haas power usage correction Erik is getting married We did not crash the Okuma... hiring Okamoto surface grinding Puck Chuks in stock! 

TOPICS:   Grimsmo's Kern had toolchanger errors Procedures and process bins Power consumption on CNC machines - $0.05/hr for Haas to be on. Air compressor maintenance selling machines DNS settings to make sure e-mails get to customers, thanks Joe F DKIM add freshdesks to SPF records custom endmills from deboer Nakamura lathe issues Oil skimmers Critical projects DONE LINKS: https://saundersmachineworks.com/pages/equipment-for-sale

TOPICS:   SMW stopping through coolant drill bits Utility bills Pierre being deported Speedio high accuracy mode Grinding wheel technology Detent ball dropper Gen3 mod vises Super secret sauce  

TOPICS:   SMW Willemin is fixed!  Replacement Fanuc motor worked. Haas UMC350 Office Phones "Lean Built" podcast with Jay and Andrew "Sooner, not faster"        "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"        "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final" Blinders in business Wera tooling SMW is selling Proven Cut

TOPICS: Grimsmo visited Kern Precision in Chicago! Four Areas that will put you out of business What I need and want out of the company by the end of the year Tour of Lapmaster  Saunders made a splash guard for his Okuma grinder  "we have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one" Confucius  

TOPICS: Maintaining CNC machines Process bins! Carbon Fiber tips and tricks Sandvik drills ERP systems managing lead times Freshdesk for customer service

TOPICS:   Work/Life balance Okuma Horizontal machining valve covers  3d printing parts for the shop  Fusion 360 frustrations  Grimsmo vising Kern Precision in Chicago  Shipping computers 3d printed metal parts craftcloud3d.com

TOPICS:   CMTS tradeshow "Tool Aquisition Syndrome" Tool life and Sandvik tooling reps Polishing small parts Saunders designed a door for his surface grinder Machine maintenance, Kern and Willemin Carbon fiber Saga

TOPICS: Grimsmo crashed the Speedio Saunders is surface grinding! My dream job Willemin U axis errors at SMW How do you manage all the tasks and projects?

TOPICS:   Lots of problems Building custom computers for CAD/CAM Willemin is sorta broken Bambu 3d printers! Calibrating printed parts Machining carbon fiber in the Speedio SMW puckchuck to market  

TOPICS: Resin 3D printing with Grimsmo's daughter how we first learned about CNC machining Willemin lathe parts Saunders' Okamoto surface grinder runs! Coolant foaming Process improvements

TOPICS: Autodesk Fusion Summit recap Spoiled with new equipment, reinvesting in the company Willemin updates Swiss lathes Grimsmo's 1968 Volvo Amazon wagon runs!  

TOPICS: Grimsmo's heat treat improvements SMW puck chuck anodizing Scrap metal Okamoto surface grinder and UMC350 delivered! Bambu 3d Printers  

TOPICS Saunders lost power Grimsmo to sell his old Eumach machines How to re-work parts or call them scrap videos of shotgun barrel manufacturing heat treating puck chucks Setup sheet tool tracker Question to the audience  

TOPICS:   Grimsmo grinding blades on the Speedio! Growing your company metal 3d printing, costs? Downcut endmills AI image creation and how it relates to machining Heat treating SMW Puck Chuck parts SMW bought the Okamoto grinder!  

TOPICS:   Fusion 360 across a team DSI Fusion Summit Aug. 22, 2023 in California SMW video on coolest unknown trick. Cutting through the heat affected zone Speedio sub micron option works! SMW bought a HAAS UMC350! Financing options Reverse Osmosis water

TOPICS: Coolant management, foaming, etc Milwaukee Hermle tour! - https://www.hermleusa.net/en/info_center_en/5axis-summit-usa (Hermle tour) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dygi8uGvA (Machining the James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors) Speedio Sub Micron option for Grimsmo Surface grinding deep dive  

TOPICS   The balance of leadership SMW Puck Chuck pallet system! Erowa update with Grimsmo Selling older machines and fully utilizing what you have  

TOPICS:   Chicago museum of science and technology Grimsmo looking at the Sub Micron option for his speedio Saunders overhaul to fixture plate Process SMW puck chuck! Lasers! RO water systems and algae

TOPICS Grimsmo was on vacation Terminator movie Breaking drills on Swiss lathe Puck chucks and training classes at SMW Speedio grinding SMW internal newsletter Coolant temperature  

TOPICS: New equipment for Saunders!  Grinder, laser, 5-axis. tips for youtube channels Surface grinder notes from Adam Demuth Grimsmo grinding blades on the speedio PTO forms

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 coolant foaming  

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 Link: https://saundersmachineworks.com/products/smw-zero-point-system  

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 at https://www.nyccnc.com/for-sale/

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 Spectrometer and lasers visit shops and bring questions can we implement automated workholding?

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 sacrificial wood block in the router Inspecting parts and improving processes  

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-showcase  CNC training classes Bambu 3d printer Willemin Lasers! Packaging! Inventory of products

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 the LS3655 100w laser Saunders' Willemin machine arrives tomorrow!

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 dropper designs CAM help for Saunders