Originally Posted by DareBee  .....
Also like Neal said, for very little up front cost you could make/have made a swaging machine that pounds these through in full automation at 1 second a piece. Supposing the deformation of material displacement is not an issue. It will keep an operator (or 2) hopping to put parts in the feeder fast enough. |
How little up front cost? I would have expected there should be an extra zero on the parts per year number. At 1 second each you will only keep your two operators busy for 139hrs per year, and that is a very short utilization time to amortize much expense on tooling that has a single function.