Hey, what's up everybody.
This is Titan from Titans of CNC.
So when looking at production, when looking at running thousands of parts, what we want
to do is we want to set up the machine so the machine runs by itself.
I'm going to give you an example of one of the techniques that I use.
We call it running strips.
So I have a 16 year old kid named Daniel.
They created a GoPro shield to protect a camera from damaging objects that would hit
against the lens.
To help solve Daniel's problem, we need to run the part fast.
This particular GoPro shield is a small part.
It's only going to take about a minute to machine.
If I ran one part at a time, I'd be opening the door, changing out devices every single
time.
What I want to do is I want to run multiple parts at the same time.
I want to put one piece of material in, but take out a lot of parts.
So I calculated the length of the part for the GoPro shield by 18.
Between each part, I have a groove that's 300,000, so a quarter inch tool can actually
cut the sides of it.
And at 18 parts, the length of the strip came out to be 39 inches.
I thought to myself, I'm going to use three vices, one, two, three, but there's a big
gap between the vices.
So I'm going to use extra long soft jaws and I'm going to put the gibs onto the soft jaw
and I'm going to be able to lock them in place.
So I divided 39 inches by three vices, which gave me 13 inches for each vice.
So the soft jaw with the gib is exactly 13 inches long.
So now I can snap this guy and lock it inside.
I can snap the next one right next to it and lock it inside with no space between them.
It's like one continuous jaw.
These are moving.
These are the hard jaws right here.
So once I come in here, I lock this in, then my entire strip is going to rest across the
entire length of the jaws.
Once I have a strip in the back, in the front, I can close my doors, run all parts, all 36
pieces at the same time while I'm multitasking and running a different machine.
It's just going to run on its own.
This technique is just one of the techniques we use to stay competitive in a global market.
Check it out.
36 pieces, all done at the same time with the doors shut because we're doing hundreds
of parts, maybe into the thousands, but they're not 30,000, 40,000, and 100,000.
If I was doing quantities like that, I'd go to a tombstone setup so the parts never stopped.
I'm excited.
We're going to run all day long, and we're going to finish everything up.
