Wow. When I see that I can't imagine that anyone could "work" hard enough to be able to afford such a place.....I immediately think unscrupulous business/gross over charging or crime.
Yes I know there might be luck or inheritance involved also. It's just the sour grapes/envy that is dictating my negative comments.
Life is too short to think and feel that way, Really!
I would give you an example but I lost the pics... I posted 1 of them back when on this site thou.
We use to stamp lighting fixture bases over the years... The problem was... When housing starts are down, as they are and have been since November of last year.
You had many stamping dies taking up space in a shop, both hand transfer and mechanical, then add maintenance to that. Quick shim and sharpens all the way down to making up new gutting sections- heat treat, wire edm etc.
Add to the fact if your 600T press was booked and needed to pull a job out of an 800-1000T press to knock em' out when needed, you were often upside down on some runs.... So you had to get it back out at the other end.
Since taking a look at the process several years ago now, several of us decided to try laser cutting them, then CNC machine tapping the 6-32 holes, then of course onto forming in a small 80T press with a robotic arms for transfers.
When we took the samples to several machine shops at the time, we didn't get 1 bite, even thou we sent out many RFQ's. Really thou, who would want to make fixtures up to just put TWO 6-32 holes in a ceiling plate? Ya know.
Plus, the fact... who would stand in front of a CNC machine all day humping ceiling fixture parts at the time, ya know.
Well,,, I did, never complained about it when I lost employees that just got bored and left etc. I just did it!!!
Now it runs completely on its own...
We can choose to be happy, either way!
Just my .02
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