Business of Machining

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