View Poll Results: How many Cnc machine do you run at a time

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    How Many Machines are you running at work

    I guess the company is tring to compete by having us run more and more machines at once.
    Sometime up to 4 machine centers at one time, boy its hard to measure the parts, running this much stuff a day
    thanks Brad
    IF ITS NOT BROKE YOUR NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH

    Ashes to ashes , dust to dust , If it wasnt for Harleys the fast lane would rust.

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    15 cnc's 24/7 for the last 8 years.....
    14 more coming before january is done.....
    4 millwrights 2 electricians
    I don't need a gym membership, I jog from breakdown to breakdown......
    menomana


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    I'm not production, I'm maintenance.

    2 Maintenance techs per shift.....1 Machine.

    Oh.....This machine is a quarter mile long, four stories high, a hundred feet wide, and takes twelve production people to run it.

    My life long dream as a Maintenance man is to work in a comletely automated mill.....No production people.....No opperators.....Just one great big green start button and a whole lot of maintenance men
    Patrick;
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    Millman, 4 machines running isnt too bad, I'm alone for about 4 hours everymorning with 5 cncs. I don't just run them in the morning, I set them up and program them also, now that is abuse. Try setting up 2 machines at the same time, while running 3 others, add in a bandsaw and some paperwork and invoicing, and by 9am when I get an employee or two(two is a good day), I'm toast.


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    Usually just 1-2 machines for me.


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    Angry fools i tell you

    One multitasking Mori Lathe....If they don't like it they can kiss my butt goodbye.....I am a job shop machinist...not production operator....The owner doesn't know a thing about these machines...neither does anyone else at our shop....If they can FIND someone to replace me...bring them on..I'll sit at home all day and do Ebay...While my machine is running I sit and read and smoke all day...I've been working in Machine shops since 1975...Programming since 1982...all Job shops...anyone who runs more than one machine is a fool.....Find another place...compete my butt...greed is their first and middle names....All the small job shops should start a Union...If the owners don't like it they can close and open a McDonalds..Then see what kind of workers they will have.


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    Forum Rules:

    Please resist the urge to curse, flame, degrade, insult or embarrass someone in your post.
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    1 engraving/milling machine (Mecanumeric Mf 1525) , perhaps another one more until January.Sorry if my english's not very good...


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    Mattmachinist,

    Sounds like you need to become an entrepeneur. If you can run more than one at a time, you surely would. So does your boss also think. What do you think he buys you your toys with?
    First you get good, then you get fast. Then grouchiness sets in.

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    used to set up, program run 4 lathes at once....thats when I was young and stupid.
    I get paid more running one now


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    Sometimes two machines but usually just one. We have VMC that we use making one off stuff and machine times are short. Then we have an older mill that we use in production machining and I operate it when I have enough time.


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    I use non at work. It's missing the "0" in the poll field. It would be interesting to see how many professionals and amateurs here are at cnczone.
    /jan


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