You are the rare entrepreneur that has been able to transition from the one man shop to a manufacturing facility. You've incorporated the systems that are necessary to keep a growing behemoth going smoothly. This video is groundbreaking in illustrating how to set up an automated structure that isn't dependent upon you being available. Wow! You should do a video series to train entrepreneurs on how to design their business to seamlessly deal with growth and all of the details involved in that. You're far beyond a machine shop entrepreneur, you've become a business organizer and you need to package that knowledge into a Course to help budding entrepreneurs to become businessmen, successful businessmen. Wow! You've impressed the daylights out of me and I don't impress easily! You're journey is amazing! Massive kudos to you :)
I'm a retired Machinist (56). 1st touched a CNC aged 17. Mori Seki TL5. Haven't had any CAD experience in last 15 yrs, been doing Planning & Scheduling jobs. Finally I just ordered a new Laptop , time to get re-educated. Going to start with Freecad.
Thanks for the advice re Fusion360. At this point , I don't have a home Internet Connection, only have Mobile Data on Phone , so Fusion "online" , is not an option for me at this time. Freecad , I can download , & update once a month via a mates connection. Gets me started 😉
It's been 7 years since you helped me get going and I'm still boot strapping! Two tormachs and just me pumping out work. No employees or huge overhead. I figure I'm thankful to have a couple cheap cows to milk for now until I retire from my day job where I'll build a larger shop and get a cnc lathe of some sort. Thanks again for being there when I began this little business and it is always great to see you check in with new vids! Hope the family is well and maybe I'll drop by some day on my way to Minnesota to visit my family!
Recommendation regarding building an ERP with no monthly fees: Retool. Currently in the process of building an ERP type system, manufacturing and electronic component inventory management as we are a small startup electronics manufacturer building our own products. As I'm familiar with MySQL, I was looking for an easy way to create a GUI without getting into a really manual process with HTML and PHP (although don't mind using those for specific customisations) so I found Retool which is specifically for building internal company systems. There's no fees for the basic version which I'm using. Definitely worth trying it out or looking for something similar.
Expirienced an oracle erp implementation at an previous employer. 100% run away unless you are a giant company and can fund high implementation, maintenance and customization cost.
@@Totalschaden-dd4bp About 20 years ago I worked for SAP, the competitor to Oracle in the ERP software space. SAP has packages for different industries, and at that time was aggressively targetting Small Medium Businesses. ERP package implmentation can be a big runaway, because they embody some ideas about how your processes should run while being customizable, which is a recipe for internal squabbling.
The whole business/corporate software industry is a terrible sales driven mess that couldn't make a useful program if their life depended on it. With modern tools and a bit of planning making your own ERP is easier and cheaper than implementing and customizing something from a company that's 70% sales people.
@@RemarkXer absolutely get what you mean. This goes all the way to my own frustration with subscription software to meddling operating systems. I’d like to go back to the era of Windows XP Pro and owning my purchased software, and being free of outside interference, like updates and “cloud” crap, that more often then not, create problems and wastes.
Great video. Question, where do you get your jobs from and so a shop of your size, how many paid jobs do you process a month. Love all your videos. Thanks for spending the time and sharing.
Has anybody used Freshdesk as a sole proprietor? I own my own IT business, and have a "support" email, and I'm wondering if using a support desk app would help in the long run. I suppose keeping track of tickets, etc. might be good.
Tool life management is heavily over looked and if you document EVERYTHING it makes life SO easy. I wish I had access to emails and purchasing stuff but I work for a huge company and they only want the big wigs to have access to that, so when I’m working rush jobs and don’t have tools and all the bosses are off site I can’t do my job🙄🧐. They say it’s so people don’t waste time on the computer, but they don’t check on us anyways as long as parts are flowing and I can still be on the computer anyways doing whatever just not emails🙄
I believe in 6 day work weeks and 5 day work weeks when the economy slumps. Make the $ when the economy is slow. Unless the equipment is paid off IT runs 6 days a week... Then and only then are 5 day work weeks considered...
You are the rare entrepreneur that has been able to transition from the one man shop to a manufacturing facility.
You've incorporated the systems that are necessary to keep a growing behemoth going smoothly.
This video is groundbreaking in illustrating how to set up an automated structure that isn't dependent upon you being available.
Wow!
You should do a video series to train entrepreneurs on how to design their business to seamlessly deal with growth and all of the details involved in that.
You're far beyond a machine shop entrepreneur, you've become a business organizer and you need to package that knowledge into a Course to help budding entrepreneurs to become businessmen, successful businessmen.
Wow!
You've impressed the daylights out of me and I don't impress easily!
You're journey is amazing!
Massive kudos to you :)
I'm a retired Machinist (56).
1st touched a CNC aged 17.
Mori Seki TL5.
Haven't had any CAD experience in last 15 yrs, been doing Planning & Scheduling jobs.
Finally I just ordered a new Laptop , time to get re-educated. Going to start with Freecad.
Fusion 360 is free as well and you can get on Titans of CNC for easier and free CAD/CAM training
Go with fusion 360! Best program by far with a free license
Freecad is kind of involving: there are nice tutorials and howtos on @MangoJellySolutions channel (for all levels)
Thanks for the advice re Fusion360.
At this point , I don't have a home Internet Connection, only have Mobile Data on Phone , so Fusion "online" , is not an option for me at this time.
Freecad , I can download , & update once a month via a mates connection.
Gets me started 😉
@@markoreilly3414 if you do want to try fusion, it can be run in offline mode and saving/loading exports of .f3d files. Whatever works best for ya
It's been 7 years since you helped me get going and I'm still boot strapping! Two tormachs and just me pumping out work. No employees or huge overhead. I figure I'm thankful to have a couple cheap cows to milk for now until I retire from my day job where I'll build a larger shop and get a cnc lathe of some sort. Thanks again for being there when I began this little business and it is always great to see you check in with new vids! Hope the family is well and maybe I'll drop by some day on my way to Minnesota to visit my family!
Recommendation regarding building an ERP with no monthly fees: Retool. Currently in the process of building an ERP type system, manufacturing and electronic component inventory management as we are a small startup electronics manufacturer building our own products. As I'm familiar with MySQL, I was looking for an easy way to create a GUI without getting into a really manual process with HTML and PHP (although don't mind using those for specific customisations) so I found Retool which is specifically for building internal company systems. There's no fees for the basic version which I'm using. Definitely worth trying it out or looking for something similar.
It has been amazing watching your journey from that first Taig mini mill.
Awesome insights, thanks! It’s great to see how far you’ve come over the years! Keep up the great work!
Super useful entrepreneurial discussion.
Expirienced an oracle erp implementation at an previous employer. 100% run away unless you are a giant company and can fund high implementation, maintenance and customization cost.
Right tool for the right job. I doubt they even considered small & medium businesses when developing it
@@Totalschaden-dd4bp About 20 years ago I worked for SAP, the competitor to Oracle in the ERP software space. SAP has packages for different industries, and at that time was aggressively targetting Small Medium Businesses. ERP package implmentation can be a big runaway, because they embody some ideas about how your processes should run while being customizable, which is a recipe for internal squabbling.
The whole business/corporate software industry is a terrible sales driven mess that couldn't make a useful program if their life depended on it. With modern tools and a bit of planning making your own ERP is easier and cheaper than implementing and customizing something from a company that's 70% sales people.
Going through it now, absolute joke.
We came from spreadsheets and I'd go back in an instant.
@@RemarkXer absolutely get what you mean. This goes all the way to my own frustration with subscription software to meddling operating systems.
I’d like to go back to the era of Windows XP Pro and owning my purchased software, and being free of outside interference, like updates and “cloud” crap, that more often then not, create problems and wastes.
Wish you lived closer, when I went to school. Internship would of been great..
Today we use technology with knowledge of your difine pattern , good video .
Work with passion, gives results!
To The Future and Beyond!!!!
AWESOME!!
staying cool with huge ceiling fan is definitely a required creature (human) comfort!! nice brief!
Good for you for not working weekends
IMVHO: Especially, not working Sundays!
Great video. Question, where do you get your jobs from and so a shop of your size, how many paid jobs do you process a month. Love all your videos. Thanks for spending the time and sharing.
You should look into a tooling vending machine by CribMaster. I have the local supplier replace my used tooling ever week.
haha you run a subscription service john! That I pay for!
Experience make a perfect machinist
Great video! Thanks! Any chance you'd be willing to share any specifics on the valve used on the compressor?
I suspect you mean Google Workspaces and not Google Spaces as the Spaces product is discontinued.
It would be cool if you ever put up a guide for tool life. What formulas do you use for say a tap, or carbide drill, end mill etc
He has a whole side project called proven cut to provide that info. I believe it's paid. I haven't used it but I have been curious about it.
lol .. how do you still find that high level of engergy and enthusiasm about something u done for a long time now..
Has anybody used Freshdesk as a sole proprietor? I own my own IT business, and have a "support" email, and I'm wondering if using a support desk app would help in the long run. I suppose keeping track of tickets, etc. might be good.
? with these machine they should have sensor on them, So if something dose break.. the machine can change the tool out !
Tool life management is heavily over looked and if you document EVERYTHING it makes life SO easy. I wish I had access to emails and purchasing stuff but I work for a huge company and they only want the big wigs to have access to that, so when I’m working rush jobs and don’t have tools and all the bosses are off site I can’t do my job🙄🧐. They say it’s so people don’t waste time on the computer, but they don’t check on us anyways as long as parts are flowing and I can still be on the computer anyways doing whatever just not emails🙄
Which solenoid are you using?
what is the camera you are using this video?
I believe in 6 day work weeks and 5 day work weeks when the economy slumps. Make the $ when the economy is slow.
Unless the equipment is paid off IT runs 6 days a week... Then and only then are 5 day work weeks considered...
R2DT2 :)
What happened to your tormach machines ??
yiiyiyii
Looks like a safety hazard with no walking space ffs man
Google Spaces is dicontinued... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Spaces
John was almost certainly referring to this one--
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chat#Spaces
It is kind of confusing for Google to reuse the name though