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Comment on Manufacturers Charting New Business Road Maps by Ricardo Teixeira

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Comment on Can you turn a slowdown into a competitive advantage? by Fletch

Fletch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:10:36 +0000

The Economic Stimulus Act essentially doubled the limits on Section 179 - so if you’re planning to add equipment anytime in the foreseeable future, do it before December 31st = it will save you a bunch of tax $s.

Comment on Can you turn a slowdown into a competitive advantage? by scott

scott — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:55:06 +0000

Sorry - try it now.

Comment on Can you turn a slowdown into a competitive advantage? by Sri

Sri — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:01:18 +0000

Scott, the link you provided doesn’t work.

Comment on Can you turn a slowdown into a competitive advantage? by Scott

Scott — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:10:16 +0000

Here is a related post with some specific suggestions as to how to turn opportunity during this down turn.

http://www.losasso.com/iDrive/2008/10/06/2009-marketing-planning-strategies-for-an-uncertain-time/

Comment on Metalworking Survey Finds Those Who Change, Thrive by Sir Loin

Sir Loin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:11:07 +0000

We do this because it is fun. We MAKE things. We have tangible, quantifiable results on a bench or in a pallet at the end of every day. We can measure our work; there is no gray area. Either we made the part in the time allotted and to tolerances given, or we didn’t. Not very arbitrary. Very refreshing in a service and information based economy. As a machine shop manager for a union shop in Northern California, I know what its like to hire folks. As an applications engineer for three years, I know what its like to train people to do this stuff. My best machinists are Americans through and through. They may have grown up with 7.62 flying around their heads, but they know what they’ve got now. It seems the indigenous folks are my biggest hurdles these days. Oh yeah, ever seen any wood buildings in ancient Israel? No? Wood was for chariots, ships, and machinery. Jesus was a machinist.

Comment on Metalworking Survey Finds Those Who Change, Thrive by Hardmilling

Hardmilling — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:07:22 +0000

Doug, The plumber you’re talking about that makes $50 an hour is a contract person that has to pay for his own health insurance, gas, tools, vehicle and maybe a building. The plumber that works for someone else only makes around $15 if he’s lucky.

Manufacturing wages are based on location, if you’re living in Minnesota a starting machinist is making $17 an hour if you’re in Michigan you’re making $25 an hour doing the same work. If you want the big money you need to go where the big money is. The other thing that will get you more money is what you know. The highest paid machinist I know of today makes $150,000.00 a year. I also know a lot of machinist that are in the $80,000 to $100,000.00 a year range because of what they know.

As far as the schools today, Richard is correct; the schools can’t keep up on technology. When a student comes out of a 2 year degree he knows what we did as machinist 20 years ago. Think about what he is worth to a progressive shop. He has the ability to load parts and push a button. He didn’t learn how to program 4 and 5 axis machining centers using models from the advanced Cad/Cam systems, and we don’t square blocks up anymore! They have to work their way up in the company just like we did to make more money, and a lot of kids don’t want to do that today. My son is 23 and a Forman over a large medical shop. He started machining when he was around 14 years old. He got his degree in machining and then worked for progressive shops to learn about today’s technology – for not a lot of money. Now he is making good money because he kept driving himself to learn and know more then the next guy.

Manufacturing isn’t going away in the USA, Its only getting more competitive because of the world market. We have processes today that can make us number one on the market. Shops that embrace High Speed Machining, Hard Milling and Automation are making it. It’s the shops that still machine tool steels at 10 to 30 inches a minute that aren’t making any money. As I travel around and evaluate shops, I see them still using basic carbide and even high speed steel end mills on mold and die material. These are the shops that can’t make money in today’s market. There is still a lot of opportunity in manufacturing today but you have to work for it, keep learning and keep up with the technology.