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General => Chatter => Topic started by: julianf on November 08, 2013, 10:43:52 AM
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I bought the parts for the frame of my cnc machine from these people, and hence am on their mailing list. They sent me this, this morning -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_ZBuoJcHwsY
The video isnt especially exciting, apart from the figures involved. My own machine is tiny. All i purchased from them was some extruded alluminium (no electronics, linear kit, anything else) and the bill was enough for the pair of us to go on a package holiday somwhere nice, come back, and then go on another one, somwhere else...
I did wonder what the break even would be between the kit above, or just paying a load of people minimum wage to do the same. You would have thought years?
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Depending on the use, perhaps, although I think the people it's aimed at would probably have payback in a few weeks.
I did for a while work for Honda in their plant in Swindon. While I was there we spent (I forget the exact figure, but 100k rings a bell) a vast sum of money on a new section of production line to accurately apply sealer to a part before it was attached to the body.
The previous method used a robot to apply the sealer, then a human to check it and apply it to the body. We had several failures per shift - and it was only found at the end of the line during the final checks before the car left the factory. The failures at this stage were enormously expensive as it normally meant another trip through the paint section once it had been repaired.
So using people is OK, but in a critical environment you need to include the cost of mistakes made by human operators.
In the Honda example, we had payback within a month.
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I bought the parts for the frame of my cnc machine from these people, and hence am on their mailing list. They sent me this, this morning -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_ZBuoJcHwsY
The video isnt especially exciting, apart from the figures involved. My own machine is tiny. All i purchased from them was some extruded alluminium (no electronics, linear kit, anything else) and the bill was enough for the pair of us to go on a package holiday somwhere nice, come back, and then go on another one, somwhere else...
I did wonder what the break even would be between the kit above, or just paying a load of people minimum wage to do the same. You would have thought years?
are you a fan of" how its made" think most of them are downloadable if you ever feel like being suduced by automation for a few hours.