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

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