doug8cat
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2008
- Location
- Philadelphia
I know there will be as many answers as folks replying, that being said:
I work in small shop we have a job that is perfect for a smallish cnc lathe nothing fancy at all.
Now granted this job ca be gang busters for 3 months or dry for a month, month and a half. the owner is reticent to make the investment. I asked why and he had no answer.
Now I have done everything from biomedical research to an emergency surgical nurse, and then this "life is lie a box of chocolates." Sorry rebelling. Point is I know next to nothing about economic aspect of business, so I turn to the brain trust here. Is there any formula of sorts to determine with some degree of certainty that the purchase would pay of equal or better than doing the part manually, I should also add there threading involved (VERY SIMPLE).
Right now we farm them out a facility with cnc capability. IMHO we are giving money away, sure things might breakeven for a while but then it is gravy.
A HAAS HL-2 for about 11K would work really well.
Time saving would be immense, I would imagine, I would estimate 50-60 % time saving on each piece.
How would you make this make this call?
Thank you for your advise.
I work in small shop we have a job that is perfect for a smallish cnc lathe nothing fancy at all.
Now granted this job ca be gang busters for 3 months or dry for a month, month and a half. the owner is reticent to make the investment. I asked why and he had no answer.
Now I have done everything from biomedical research to an emergency surgical nurse, and then this "life is lie a box of chocolates." Sorry rebelling. Point is I know next to nothing about economic aspect of business, so I turn to the brain trust here. Is there any formula of sorts to determine with some degree of certainty that the purchase would pay of equal or better than doing the part manually, I should also add there threading involved (VERY SIMPLE).
Right now we farm them out a facility with cnc capability. IMHO we are giving money away, sure things might breakeven for a while but then it is gravy.
A HAAS HL-2 for about 11K would work really well.
Time saving would be immense, I would imagine, I would estimate 50-60 % time saving on each piece.
How would you make this make this call?
Thank you for your advise.