Hey everyone. I'm a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur in beginning stages of launching a CAD design company.
One of my thoughts was to be able to assist machine shops with CAD services, but I am not exactly sure how to ensure I am adding value at the machine shop level. I was hopeful you would be able to give some feedback on what types of offerings would be useful in your machine shops?
Here are some additional questions to help conversation:
One of my thoughts was to be able to assist machine shops with CAD services, but I am not exactly sure how to ensure I am adding value at the machine shop level. I was hopeful you would be able to give some feedback on what types of offerings would be useful in your machine shops?
Here are some additional questions to help conversation:
- Would CAD services be valuable to a machine shop?
- Does your machine shop often get design requests?
- Would you outsource those design requests?
- How often do you get design requests?
- What would be your preferred deliverables?
- What reservations do you have about outsourcing CAD work?
- What type of payment structure would be most useful for contracting CAD services, per job or per hour?
- How much would you be willing to pay hourly for CAD services?
- Could you mark up a value added CAD service to your end customer?
- Have you or would you consider outsourcing CAM programming?
- What reservations do you have with outsourcing CAM programming?
- What would you be willing to pay for CAM programming services?
- Anything else that would be helpful to you or I should consider?