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

            Grimsmo:

            Emyth

            RSF

            Relentless

            Apolo Murders

    Saunders:

    Small Time Operator

    How to win friends and influence people

·         Tips on how to organize tools in Fusion when changing them out often in a hobby garage?

·         Stang_bladeworks

What is the closest either of you have come to giving up and how did you overcome it?

·         Martinskot

What’s a shop/machining related product you wish existed but don’t have the time to develop yourself?

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 - businessofmachining@gmail.com
• 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