genek
04-23-2013, 08:12 PM
Most put their wood on the shop bot and then watch it cut.. That is not managing your time wisely.
Let start as if you just got your shop bot, and have played with it enough to make basic cuts.
First day.. You get all of your wood ready stacked in piles by sizes 2 inch thick in one pile 1 inch in another. I try to stay with six and eight inch wide rough boards. This you do the first hour.
You get all of your patterns arranged in aspire to fit the board that you are going to cut with the shop bot. Break for lunch, after lunch you start cutting the two inch thick boards first, lets say you are running the following, oven rack pull, you want say 100, one 2 x 8 x 96 cheery board will make 105. That is about 45 minutes on the cnc. You cut that while you are setting up the band saw to rip the blanks into 9/32 slabs.. When that one is cut you re-load the cnc with another 2 x 8 x 96 and start cutting stirring spoons. While the cnc is cutting the stirring spoons you start slicing the oven rack pulls and getting them ready to sand. This pattern of work repeats till the end of day
2nd day you start cutting the 1 inch x 6 inch x 96 poplar boards into rubber band guns. While the rubber band guns are cutting you finish band sawing the blanks, and start sanding the individual oven rack pulls and other products you have cut and sliced the day before. Finished product normally will be a few days after i have cut them into blanks.
But the man goal is to always be doing work while your machines are working. I keep boxes of blanks ready to slice, blanks ready to sand. This way no matter what i have going on in the day with the machines i am keeping my self busy.
All the patterns that i make i used to do them by hand, i cut the shapes out on a band saw, sliced them, sanded them etc with the shop bot the work that used to take me all week 12 hours a day doing i now do it in three 12 hour days. That leave me two days to catch up on any sanding that i am behind on.
You need product in stock ready to send out. Build up some inventory before you start to sale your product. Customers do not like an order be late or taking a long time getting to them.
At first i kept 20 or 30 of each in stock, now to just keep from killing my self each week i keep 100 of each in stock. My computer system (quick books keeps track of my inventory. As i take out it removes it from my inventory, it lets me know when i am running low, ( i have minimums set ) when i reach that point i do a production run of the products that i am low of. By the time orders for that part is needed i normally have the inventory built back up.. Never wait on orders to cut product. Have it ready to ship. Normally all order that come in by Thursday, I ship Friday... I do all of my shipping on Friday. I normally use the u.s. Post office priority mail. It is cheaper than UPS or Fedex, I get free tracking and it arrives at most of my customers place on Monday... I do not ship on any day but Friday... Post office is a hour away for me.
I hope this has helped on production.. If you have questions just e-mail me....
Check the list of patterns we have for sale.
Thanks
Let start as if you just got your shop bot, and have played with it enough to make basic cuts.
First day.. You get all of your wood ready stacked in piles by sizes 2 inch thick in one pile 1 inch in another. I try to stay with six and eight inch wide rough boards. This you do the first hour.
You get all of your patterns arranged in aspire to fit the board that you are going to cut with the shop bot. Break for lunch, after lunch you start cutting the two inch thick boards first, lets say you are running the following, oven rack pull, you want say 100, one 2 x 8 x 96 cheery board will make 105. That is about 45 minutes on the cnc. You cut that while you are setting up the band saw to rip the blanks into 9/32 slabs.. When that one is cut you re-load the cnc with another 2 x 8 x 96 and start cutting stirring spoons. While the cnc is cutting the stirring spoons you start slicing the oven rack pulls and getting them ready to sand. This pattern of work repeats till the end of day
2nd day you start cutting the 1 inch x 6 inch x 96 poplar boards into rubber band guns. While the rubber band guns are cutting you finish band sawing the blanks, and start sanding the individual oven rack pulls and other products you have cut and sliced the day before. Finished product normally will be a few days after i have cut them into blanks.
But the man goal is to always be doing work while your machines are working. I keep boxes of blanks ready to slice, blanks ready to sand. This way no matter what i have going on in the day with the machines i am keeping my self busy.
All the patterns that i make i used to do them by hand, i cut the shapes out on a band saw, sliced them, sanded them etc with the shop bot the work that used to take me all week 12 hours a day doing i now do it in three 12 hour days. That leave me two days to catch up on any sanding that i am behind on.
You need product in stock ready to send out. Build up some inventory before you start to sale your product. Customers do not like an order be late or taking a long time getting to them.
At first i kept 20 or 30 of each in stock, now to just keep from killing my self each week i keep 100 of each in stock. My computer system (quick books keeps track of my inventory. As i take out it removes it from my inventory, it lets me know when i am running low, ( i have minimums set ) when i reach that point i do a production run of the products that i am low of. By the time orders for that part is needed i normally have the inventory built back up.. Never wait on orders to cut product. Have it ready to ship. Normally all order that come in by Thursday, I ship Friday... I do all of my shipping on Friday. I normally use the u.s. Post office priority mail. It is cheaper than UPS or Fedex, I get free tracking and it arrives at most of my customers place on Monday... I do not ship on any day but Friday... Post office is a hour away for me.
I hope this has helped on production.. If you have questions just e-mail me....
Check the list of patterns we have for sale.
Thanks