......simply put, this is an absolutely incredible CNC automation success story.

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......simply put, this is an absolutely incredible CNC automation success story.

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Matsuura UK

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@ronb5105 9 ай бұрын

Wow been telling people they can do this for years. Great shop, layout and understanding of lights out manufacturing.

@Vankel83 9 ай бұрын

I thought running two cnc lathes with bar pullers and 1 cnc mill was a lot of work for one person. This guy beats me hands down.

@stbentoak5047 9 ай бұрын

While we were an Okuma shop.. We had many Matsuura's early on in our shop's beginnings. They were rock solid and never let us down. Mostly Twin Spindle verticals. Ran high Tech Fuel Control bodies for Military and Commercial aircraft. Great memories from the 80's and 90's...

@andypandy9931 9 ай бұрын

Incredible that he can do all that on his own. There must be other operations and administration in the business.

@PiefacePete46 8 ай бұрын

I bet he doesn't own a bed! 😜 Pretty impressive!

@wald3mar 9 ай бұрын

Well done that man. Solid.

@peglor 8 ай бұрын

As someone who tried a bunch of Superstar parts on my bike over the past few years and found every penny saved initially was paid out with interest in the long run in wrenching time or replacement parts, this explains perfectly how the parts manage to look so good for the money, but self destruct shockingly quickly when they see actual mileage. The customers are the product testers 😞.

@preetharman1824 8 ай бұрын

Good to see there are more like me who is struggling for skillied labor & Run mills by their own with automation 🙌😍

@danarrington2224 8 ай бұрын

To do what he is doing you need long term contracts with customers that you can depend on. It's likely that his customers own the fixtures he's using to produce their parts. That's really the only way a small shop like his can stay afloat financially. It's also scary because a new purchasing manager at one of his customers could wreck it all for him. Best of luck to you sir. You have a beautiful shop.

@PiefacePete46 8 ай бұрын

What you say is what I expected, but "listening between the lines", I got the impression that being light on his feet, and quick to react to customer demand has a lot to do with his success. He must be completely at home with his machines... Great to listen to.

@danarrington2224 8 ай бұрын

@@PiefacePete46 Agreed. He did say that he doesn't do prototype work and he farms out his fixture making. Since a large upfront charge for fixturing would be very tough for him to pay out-of-pocket, he must be passing that through to his customer. Most companies won't agree to that unless they take ownership of it. He has carved out a very nice business and i hope he continues to be successful. I'm just pointing out how difficult it must have been for him to get where he is now.

@run-cnc 8 ай бұрын

We just got a MX850 on our floor. The repeatability and thermal control has been incredible so far!

@fishermanstales8946 9 ай бұрын

3 Laths and 2 multipallet machines, programming, tooling, methode fixtures planning, orderplanning, running the business. Deburring pieces, fixing the pieces on the fixtures, mesuring his pieces for quality, .... . All 1 person?? This man doesn't sleep anymore i think. Working with tombstone with all different pieces is not new. We are doiing it for 20 years. Robots are the future now.

@PiefacePete46 8 ай бұрын

He mentioned robots, but I did not see any... might have another look!

@fishermanstales8946 8 ай бұрын

I did not see them also. That is just it. Running a machinepark on his own?? I would like to see that.

@konobikundude 8 ай бұрын

Still waiting for someone to license the automation tech from SendCutSend in the UK

@zyndapp800 9 ай бұрын

I wonder if these machines would work same as well if he would be machining steel parts not aluminium. There's way more tool wear and other issues

@AlphaEngineer2022 9 ай бұрын

Probably not, but there’s things to mitigate it, in cycle tool probing, sister tooling, in cycle inspection etc… there’s always a way to make life a bit easier🙂

@PiefacePete46 8 ай бұрын

I got the feeling that he would not hesitate to take on that kind of contract. The issues involved with moving to steel apply to his competitors as well. He did say that he has no problem passing on work that doesn't fit into his operation. I think he would probably pick the jobs he can handle best... he isn't lacking for customers! Hat's off to a hard worker. 👍

@thedave7760 8 ай бұрын

Very nice. What do you do with your swarf? Is is separated and recycled?

@Mtaalas 9 ай бұрын

These machines cost hundreds of thousands to millions of pounds. And you need very VERY high skill level and training to run them. Anyone can ultimately learn it, but if you have a business to run, you don't have the time to learn the basics... But this is what manufacturing looks like in western countries, low labor, high automation, very high end stuff. We cannot think we should be competing with China... even China has issues with labor costs being too high and having to replace millions and millions of workers with robots and automation. We need to rethink our world, when we only need 10 people to do work of a thousand, who's going to pay the taxes? How are people going to live? If we do not solve this and FAST, we cannot survive as a society.

@peterCheater 9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure his previous owner financed the equipment for him. No way an employee can afford approx. $1.6mil worth of equipment...

@Parasite98 9 ай бұрын

I think you are high or something. Maybe you need less people in manufacturing but there are more then enough jobs that need people doing the work. Besides who's going to produce and maintain the thr machines? You just get a shift in jobs It's not like all the people will go sit and home and not pay tax.....

@Mtaalas 9 ай бұрын

@@Parasite98 and what jobs are those people are shifting towards?

@Parasite98 9 ай бұрын

@@Mtaalas Idk anything else like engineering, maintenance, logistics.

@AlphaEngineer2022 9 ай бұрын

@@Mtaalasdesign and R&D, if robots can do production then that leaves more human brains to do the real important stuff. Think how far the world would be ahead if 90% of the current engineering workforce were all thinkers, how much further we would be ahead. As well as the cost of technology coming down for everyone. Let me tell you from first hand experience, automation still has a long way to go, and not every single process can be automated 🙂

@SirRootes 9 ай бұрын

Gezz, this bloke must have a good social/home life cause he’d be never there. I know there are people who love to work but Fk that! I work to live not live to work.

@Minerals333 9 ай бұрын

How’d you work that one out when he can set the machine and leave it running for 3 days?

@garyeuscher4499 8 ай бұрын

At the level he is at, nothing else will satisfy him , but his work. So it’s not work, it’s life. Most people are dull , petty and repetitive. I rather work with machines!