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    TruTops Nesting Software

    Has anyone had trouble with TruTops help or support? The version we got from them, some features are still in german even with the english version. We've been using it for 5 years and still constantly come across bugs and features we know nothing about that the manuals don't cover or reference...
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    Passing Costs To Customer Like Everyone Else

    Most of it is custom one-offs or short runs (1-10 units) from small machined brackets to large weldments with an avg of 1 week turnaround. We are starting to put documents together so we can get past the "he said/she said" aspect, much like your spreadsheets. We have the opposite problem of the...
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    Passing Costs To Customer Like Everyone Else

    That's good to hear, our owner is denying our request to even begin the process of this, afraid of having them quote elsewhere and not returning. Such is the nature of business. Unfortunately I believe he is the "clingy girlfriend" that once we have a customer, he will do anything to not lose...
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    Passing Costs To Customer Like Everyone Else

    The words of someone who does not have employees, or ones that have ever stayed beyond the very next job opportunity. Have your pay froze over the past 3 years and see if you'd be "happy". Tone deaf is an understatement.
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    Passing Costs To Customer Like Everyone Else

    I may be in a bubble, but at my current shop it is like pulling teeth to get the owner to pass part of the current economic burden onto customers. He is paranoid about losing customers (ones with deep pockets, not small penny pinchers), repeatedly undercuts my quotes as he is the only one that...
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    What are your current shop hurdles, and how will you beat them?

    You're right about the growth. We've built our brand being fast and flexible for the railroad. A large part of our work is now production of large assemblies while the family maintains that "we're still a small job shop". This was more of a result of me venting than going to the boss with the...
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    What are your current shop hurdles, and how will you beat them?

    Not a small issue, but the family business I work for has grown to 30+ employees, and basically outgrown the 2 brothers that run it. Scheduling is hour by hour for 6 machinist, 10 welders, 3 operators (burn tables, pressbrakes) Job roles have been non existent to be replaced by " all hands on...
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    Machinists Want Blank Parts

    I asked them, said its "easier". I wanted to know why its easier and its more efficient for me to post a thread here and read it home than stopping our work flow to discuss it, or hold them after they've worked in 100 degree heat all day. On the topic of things, I'd like to hear, your snoddy...
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    Machinists Want Blank Parts

    As the title describes, recently a couple of machinist have decided that they do not want parts with precut lead holes from our CNC cutting tables. Instead, would rather start any hole of any tolerance from scratch with a center drill or centercut endmill. I have inspected the parts off the...
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    Career Building Advice

    This is why I am worried that I am stuck in a hole. If my paycheck goal depends on me working 70+ hours regularly and not seeing the light of day for weeks at a time (as it does currently), I do not find that as a sustainable life style. I am not adverse to working long weeks periodically as...
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    Career Building Advice

    I should be more accurate in my job title, CAD Draftsman was kind of a buzzword. Engineering technician would probably be more accurate, as I do more than just 3D model predetermined designs and make production prints. I cover pretty much every engineering task, I just don't have the piece of...
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    Career Building Advice

    I am about to turn 24, and have spent the first 5 years of my professional career at one shop doing CAD drafting and trying to soak up what I can about manufacturing. We are a full service shop, so I have had the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of projects from fully fabricated frames...
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    Trumpf Laser Nesting Software Bugs

    We currently run a Trumpf Fiber Laser 2030, and we are using their old version, default "TruTops" nesting software. We have had our quarrels with the software anything from UX to customer support being more clueless than us when diagnosing issues. But now we are facing a bug in the software that...
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    Management Needs to Look in a Mirror

    I would agree that this is the case. Being a millennial, I went through the later years of school as administration was trying to tackle the influx of students using smartphones, and widely adopted was the "no phones in sight" rule. Now I enter the workforce and am told, "Yeah Bob playing on his...
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    Management Needs to Look in a Mirror

    I'm not well versed on this forum, so I apologize for the crude way of responding to 2 people at once, but to both Dualkit and Mcgyver: The margin is solid, but seeing a downward trend in recent years (why the VP shared these numbers with me is beyond me). I wouldn't be putting this much effort...
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