Hi all,
I'm fairly new machine shop and I'm curious how you guys handle the following.
Customer came in with (for me) a fairly big complicated project.
Which required quite a few measurement checks and design (cad) work. Once ready the parts could be machined.
The part (small serie) was quite complicated and required some special tooling and fixtures. And the material costs are quite high (which I've already bought)
I've spend quite some time reverse engineering the original part.
I have designed a fixture for the parts. Since it's a pretty complicated part to make
Tooling is bought
Material is bought and in stock
So last step was do to some final dimension checks, some small design details and program the part.
But due to circumstances the customer doesn't need the parts anymore.
For this kind of work the customer always pays 50% of the total amount in advance. So everything is covered.
But how to work this out?
Let him pay for the tooling? and take my loss on the design work?
I'm fairly new machine shop and I'm curious how you guys handle the following.
Customer came in with (for me) a fairly big complicated project.
Which required quite a few measurement checks and design (cad) work. Once ready the parts could be machined.
The part (small serie) was quite complicated and required some special tooling and fixtures. And the material costs are quite high (which I've already bought)
I've spend quite some time reverse engineering the original part.
I have designed a fixture for the parts. Since it's a pretty complicated part to make
Tooling is bought
Material is bought and in stock
So last step was do to some final dimension checks, some small design details and program the part.
But due to circumstances the customer doesn't need the parts anymore.
For this kind of work the customer always pays 50% of the total amount in advance. So everything is covered.
But how to work this out?
Let him pay for the tooling? and take my loss on the design work?