Ha thats funny! The company I work for bought the waterjet to bring work back inhouse.
Thanks
Bro, I understand exactly what you are saying. Whoever wrote out that fat check is gonna wonder just why in the **** is he paying an outside vendor.
Break it down and look at the dollars and cents of the job.
You look at what the PO is for, then subtract the overhead to produce that part.
You do not wanna spend a butt load of shop hours dicking with a burr, which of course you well know.
There are some jobs that just are not feasible to do with your current setup.
One time runs on something like this are the worst sometime because you cant justify the expense of equipment
to do that one job.
I do not know anything about chemical etching but I would call around to see if it fits the job and how much. You might get them etched or what ever for half
what your paying your shop labor because they can do it by lots at a time.
I picture the de-burring eating your labor cost alive, even the cost of an outside vendor wire EDM and shipping could be cheaper than paying your labor to dick
with these things.
Here is an idea to chew on, can a product like this be stamped out cleanly?
If your company makes a lot of the very thin products I would look at manufacturing a punch press to stamp them out.
Picture a stamping die going up and down X times a minute and every time it strokes up it automatically advances the sheet one notch for next part.
There are lots of How Its Made episodes showing this stuff whizzing away.
