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

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 information, standardizing

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

Topics:

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

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
• Growing a team, getting them to solve problems

Topics:

• 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 through the shop
• Managing your tasks
• Crashing machines

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 audio

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 coolants
• building an enclosure for Grimsmo's CNC router

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 Speedio
• probing, manual programming

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 computers for workflow
• tool breakage control

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 accounting
• SMW online training classes

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 focus, but...
• 4 new employees at SMW in the past 72 hrs
• Tornos update from Grimsmo
• Running machines unattended overnight