- When Should OT Hours Start After Taking Mid-week Personal/Vacation Days
- LLC Or S Corp for a machine/design/fab shop?
- Used way lube, recycle or..?
- Insurance inspection
- Ideas on how to tempt a national industrial parts distrib to move to my building ?
- Review after probation period
- What will replace paper checks?
- Three Phase Upgrade at potential new business location
- Capto?
- How do you handle multiple revisions after the PO.
- Example of workshop foolishness - a nearly burnt hand
- Repeatative lifting heavy parts. Lifting aids?
- Product patent, design and mfg
- Comp Time Instead Of Overtime
- Haas GR510 delivered.... how/when to sign off?
- Financing New Shop
- 3 phase in the UK.
- New I9 form
- Employee attitude, what do you do?
- Fatal lathe incident. What can the owner expect?
- Shop phone system, voicemail, auto attendant, what do you use?
- What would you Charge for this
- On site C N C training, what are you paying?
- LMS High Torque 3536 Lathe
- What to charge for making an owners manual?
- What Size of Window Unit A/C for Shop?
- Customers splitting Purchase Orders, who are they fooling?
- Just Need To Vent - One Man Shop Running Beoyond Max Cap.
- Do I have a legitimate gripe? Long rant.
- Costing Jobs and Determining Hourly Rate
- First Aid Kits - Refills?
- Sales rep comissions and agreements
- Could your rigger handle this wide load?
- Okuma or Mori-Seiki
- What should this cost?
- Advice on small dust collection systems
- Advice for starting in a garage?
- Can he sue?
- 179 investment credit. What happens if you sell the machine?
- Bankrupt Customer Worth Filling Out Court Papers?
- Issues with Hardinge Online Store
- Constant issues with damaged freight???
- Could you fit an engine like this in your shop?
- Air Compressor and Dryer
- 5 Axis CNC Pay ?
- Workers comp %
- Power cost questionH
- On average, how many men is each foreman responsible for in your shop?
- Company logo and website question
- OT: Spam ALERT
- McMaster position
- 4140HT pricing
- Repair business
- Sounds like a kick back.........
- need business card source recommendations......and a small rant
- Torch Safety
- Signing off on a new machine....
- Health Insurance' High Cost? See this!
- Geometric tolerancing class not on company time
- Accounting for scrap/mistakes in estimates of one-off parts?
- From job shop to manufacturing your own product
- How to find FIRST jobs?
- Looking for a small shop 3 phase monthly bill guesstimate
- Product Liability Insurance
- Pricing tolerance - not sure this is the right forum
- Is taking FMLA asking to get fired?
- resume questions for shop owners
- Generalized View on Increasing Regulatory Burdens
- Dealers what to do and not to do
- Talk me off the ledge!!!
- Ever had a customer stop by on their vacation?
- Work is slow, anyone else in the same boat
- ObamaCare - What will it mean to your bottom line in your state?
- employees and outside work
- ISO 9001:2008 Who has obtained this certification form the begining themselves
- Making customers apply for credit and invoice factoring
- shop owners, how much is too much and when do you throw in the towel?
- Vindicative sales reps
- What's a good way to begin a part number system?
- OT: Entering the dating world as a shop owner!
- Taking a stand against slow paying customer
- Part time job how best to get paid/charge?
- An inquiring mind would like to know
- JobBoss Scheduling/Blanket Orders
- Extending credit
- Selling industrial building real estate agent norms question
- Time Wasted Buying Supplies?
- Workers Comp cost for small shops?? Ouch!!
- Owners, how did you start up?
- Why does alcohol make shop ownership better?!
- New website just finished a couple of days ago.
- So how's the used machine market? (and new?)
- Accounting software and Shop systems
- index escalators for 3 year contract
- Dealing with Computer Deficient Boss
- Never buy Atlas-Copco
- Printed Checks (English/Canadian "Cheques") and accounting software
- The purchasing guy.....
- Section 199 Domestic Production Activities Deduction
- Is anybody using MFG.com?
- Double disc grinding
- Getting Started
- Roll Towels
- Dealers update your web sites, or are you, dare I say... bait and switching??
- what do you use for Job Scheduling?
- Manufacturing Consulting Business
- Intuit Payments Network
- What are newish machinists worth these days?
- Obamacare could actually help small business owners
- Making a loss to fix your stuff up.
- Mold making business
- Engineer wanted in Chicago
- Company tardiness policy, do you think this is fair?
- Economic Census form PS-54112, anyone doing theirs?
- Finishing (black oxide) minimum charges....issues ????
- Giving customers credit
- Pricing question?
- Vince Lombardi Day
- Putting up a new building
- Number of fire extinguishers per square foot ?
- Potential new customer fishing for suckers.... LOL.
- Fabricating . com ..... has anyone else been contacted by them?
- How do you get a renter to leave the building.
- Shop Vehicle
- Need a solution for washing parts...
- How do you handle when a customer "cherry picks" your quote?
- OT: Sick employe returning
- If all goes well I will own my own building in 30 days, what is a C of O?
- American Made?, Made in the USA?, Made in America? Marketing question.
- Need advice have a delimma
- Anyone ever have an employee get really hurt bad, life changing bad.
- Bounced Checks
- Recruiters callling the shop looking to entice your employees?
- Liabilities of designing and making parts for motorcycles, race karts, etc.
- Do any of you pay taxes for work done in other states?
- Journeyman or Second Rate? All or nothing?
- Raw material profit margins and mark up
- I am an owner so I guess this belongs here.
- MRP System - Project Tracking
- Shop Control
- New Website
- Wise saying of the day.
- Post pictures of your desk ! (if it's nice anyway)
- My first shop leadership role... and not doing very well
- Why Is The Price Secret
- OT- Accountant costs how much do you pay?
- Fire Sprinkler Sys.
- How Do You Find an Independent Sales Rep?
- Secured loan to buy commercial property vs traditional mortgage.
- Shop Attitudes
- fair pay???
- $15,000.00 mistake. In my pocket at the moment.
- Social Security increase.......A cut in pay for everyone? Yup!
- census for manufacturers?
- Commercial Property Loans
- Putting a lean a customers product?
- Changing vendors, saving money.
- US death duties affect small business?
- When someone is laid off, do you still get holiday pay?
- Anti-Rust Spray For Shafts--What Shall We Use?
- Who's working Christmas Day???
- Was 2012 a good year for your shop?
- Auto repair $110hr-machine shop $65hr!
- How do operators and owner's feel about double ball bar measure ments (dbb renishaw)
- Scrap
- Carbide insert storage
- Checking on a Resume Submittal
- Any tips on becoming a commercial landlord ?
- Being forced to work for free, other issues...
- Work order management
- Dis satisfied customer , How to handle it?
- Anybody know how to get a SKU for a new product?
- What are typical bank interest rates on commercial mortgages these days ?
- Any danger of having a commercial mortgage with bank that might go under ?
- Building requirments/wish list for a new waterjet shop?
- Accident Prevention Incentive
- single programer for job shop?
- Time clock usage policy
- Commercial Flexspace renters/owners - What if someone uses too many parking spaces ?
- What do you guys realistically charge for one-off stuff?
- Your building- Zoning classifications
- Customers spending end of year money
- How much do you pay for a business license ?
- Simple and efficient MRP type accounting software? (Production Shop)
- northfield chuck jaw alternative source?
- What is a Good Bluetooth for Machine Shop Use?
- Any must have shop owner/machinist apps for them smart phones?
- shop management recommended reading list...
- Painting Galvanized steel? Cheap options? PVA?
- Waste OIl - Shop heat?
- Advise on pricing a Weldon end mill Sharpening fixture, Please
- Price check!.......tell me your opinions on this part quote.
- Advise on small business merger?
- W-9 for parts sales
- E-Myths Revisited (Michael Gerber)
- 60 Minutes program yesterday. Any body see it?
- buying machinerey to offset taxable income
- question for all small business owners
- Tools Walking Away
- Recommendations for a wire shop in central NY
- Wanting to be a machinist specificly a tool and die maker
- If Obama's re-election is forcing the liquidation of your shop, post the auction here
- AR500 Supply?
- Return Policy, charges ?
- Porn in the workplace, shop policies?
- Advertising
- Dealing with customers who want to keep changing the rules.
- What are the pro's and con's of all the time clock choices?
- Our Scheduling Methods just do not work. Looking for advice.
- Dealing with lazy employees.
- How do you handle power outages?
- Making a living with manual machines
- Advice for starting new machine shop
- SBA/ CDC/504 loans??
- What to look for in shop space?
- Bringing the machining in house - What to buy - What to budget - What to look out for
- Need Tables for New Machines
- multi-line telephone systems
- ot: venting about life's struggles
- QC and small shops
- 1 year review, salary advice?
- MachineTools.com has a question
- Screw ups at work... how long will employer put up with it.
- Resources for the relentlessly curious machinist
- Scam in Washington State, asking for Annual MInutes
- Safety Color Code best practices?
- CNC and manual shop... same boss?
- Know any thing about made2spec?
- Any experience with DIY Patents?
- Holding parts hostage on job B for payment on job A...
- Open House at your Place
- Shit vendors not honoring claims and even shittier freight services screwing stuff up
- Hiring the easy way when things get busy
- Customers manager taking kick backs........what would you do?
- Any of you guys get "volunteered" by your teacher "better half" and some random ideas
- Pushy little customers
- sold my shop - now back in business - my short story (maybe inspirational to some?)
- How much should an entry level machinist make?
- OT - Shop Security - cameras an people
- What to do when parts are done early?
- How does a small shop avoid getting taken by vendors?
- What should happen when a metal finishing shop ruins parts?
- Power outages and damaged machine servo drives
- Is anybody slowing down?
- What's your quote to book ratio?
- How does a new shop get work?
- Who knows about the SpaceClaim CAE program ?????
- OT ??? Ever heard to the Stupid Chair syndrome?
- Tool crib management
- Trying to repair machines, dealing with managment... shoot me now