So it's machinery moving day number two, and we're taking
all the remaining machines except for one.
There was one machine that I just couldn't deal with any more.
We're leaving it behind, and it's just not up to the Pierson standard.
You might be surprised as to which one it is.
So the machinery movers are really good
at kind of tying everything up, making sure we have such beautiful weather here.
There's no need to tarp.
I don't want to run a quick experiment.
Maybe if you've seen our card video
about these tool tags and these little cards that we print out.
I'm going to leave this on. This is magnetically mounted.
I'm going to see if they stay on the machine for the drive.
We can always print new ones, but here's if it makes it over there.
Little fun, little easter egg for the guys.
Okay, so pretty exciting.
Both trucks got over here just fine.
They're all back.
They're starting to get the forklifts off.
Give you a quick rundown on what we're doing.
We have the VF 2c that machine was originally paired with the robot,
but now we're going to pair it with the VF 2b.
It's our oldest machine has a 20 station umbrella tool changer.
We don't need more than about 16 tools for what the robot has been doing,
namely making pallets and OP zero work for our pro pallet systems.
Behind me will be the VF 4.
That's primarily our vacuum chuck machine.
So these two machines will be right next to each other.
Our panel is marked out here on the wall.
We have the overhead pipes, a big double lot wire that will go down to the switch,
then transformer, then panel and then branch out overhead.
So this manufacturing cell behind me will be off
one transformer and one panel on this side of the shop.
All the other stuff over there will be on a second transformer, second panel.
The machine that goes down here will be our VF 2a
which is a kind of an older machine.
It's our second oldest machine has a 24 station side mount tool changer.
All the VF 2’s these days come with a 30 as kind of a standard.
Not as an add on, but it's the smallest one you can get.
And then we have it taped off, but we don't own that machine yet.
Another VF 2.
It's going to be part of the process of developing more automation equipment
for the second division of our company.
Pierson Automation.
We're Pierson Workholding now we have the VacWatch
this kind of like a first initial offering for the automation side.
And then over here we're going to have one grinder that we own
right now and then a second grinder for more capacity.
And then behind me will be a Doosan 2600
SY 2 with an Iemca bar feeder.
And you also notice our existing Doosan Lynx 220LSY.
We've also got a spot taped off over there for another bar feeder.
Like my friend John Saunders says a bar fed lathe
is about as simple of an entry point to automation as you can get.
So we're excited about all these, all the things that are going on.
I got to get out there.
They're taking machines off trucks.
Catch you in a minute.
That last measurement, ten foot 11 inch
and 11/16 on both corners.
I mean, that's absolutely perfect.
Insane.
What a day.
So we have officially moved all of the machines into place.
Got them aligned.
The guys have done a few more truckloads with their personal vehicles.
We rented a flatbed 20 foot flatbed for the bigger, heavier stuff.
Things are just coming in the place.
If you saw the old place, we'll go over there in a minute.
It's it.
Suddenly it looks bigger and this place looks a lot smaller.
Although this is almost double the floor space.
So it's weird how that happens.
We've actually talked about how funny it seems that the machines seem smaller
because we have, you know, really tall ceilings and hours before
we had about 1214 and these are closer to like 18, 20 foot ceilings.
So we're just getting used to it.
We're kind of spread out.
We have a general layout of production and how things are going to flow.
I'll cover that in a future video.
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But in that video I'll show you how when you are working on a product
or a specific component, you're no farther than two machines apart.
So a guy would not be over here at one VF 2 and then go
over to the MX at the other side of the shop along the same lines.
You wouldn't
have a guy that specialized in lathes coming over here to the mill side.
Now everyone's cross-trained.
We know how to run both machines around here, but ideally you stay in your cell,
whether it's by machine type or component that you're running.
We have product line managers.
So Alex, our SmartVac line.
John, our Pro and Mini line.
We have Juan that knows
every aspect of the RotoVise production and so we've laid it out that way.
Once we get power and air hooked up, we'll give you a kind of a tour of that.
One thing I wanted to highlight, so right behind me that is a DI tank.
So DI is Deionized water.
What you have to do is, especially if you have hard water,
we have decent water it’s not soft by any means here in Southern California.
But you would run your city water through these tanks and then it'll go to the drum
where you mix it with a proportion mixer and then into the machines.
So what we're going to do with this one is we're going to take the DI tank,
we're going to plummet hard, plummet into our waterlines and go into the shop.
Then when these tanks get exchanged, two valves, close it, unscrew
the delivery driver, we'll exchange them, hook it up,
charge the lines, and then we'll go to different areas of the shop.
Now, we've plumbed it for two different areas right now.
So we have copper pipe behind me and that will go down to a drum.
Same thing with that side of the shop that will have its own
DI line running to it with a coolant drum.
So we'll have multiple drums, which is OK.
When one drum runs out, we just have another one delivered.
When we go to buy both drums, we actually get the quantity discount
when we buy two or more drums.
So it not only eliminates waste, but it's more cost effective that way too.
Now we're going to head over right now to the old shop,
and I'm going to show you which machine we left behind and why.
Let's head on over.
And the machine that we are
not going to take with us is the Haas ST 30Y.
So the question is why.
I mean, we put a lot of work into learning this machine.
Of course, the expense of purchasing the machine about a year and a half ago.
And then we've done a couple videos for you guys, a card up here
and in the description below, if you want to check out what
these machines are all about, especially the rebooted version of the ST line.
So what it came down to was the ability
to walk away for extended periods of time, knowing that
if something does go wrong and things do go wrong, tools where parts
don't get injected, all those things, could we walk away from this confidently?
No. Did it make great parts? Yes.
Like I think I said in some of the other videos, I was happily surprised
at how accurate this machine was, especially for its size,
I think has totally nailed it when it comes to
just the the the new castings, the thermal compensations.
I mean, I was really happy with it.
The intuitiveness of the bar feeder was great,
but a few of the things that I just couldn't get over is the noise.
When you have a bunch of other machines running
and they're all of kind of like the same frequency,
this one just howls and I don't know, man, I just it you can always tell
when this was on and the general consensus in the shop was like,
could be quieter.
I don't understand why it's this loud.
So that's the human factor which we definitely taking into consideration.
And this machine, it is in its final hour of running parts.
We're making our new style of bed clamps.
So these clamps here, they go around the perimeter of our vacuum chucks
and our pro and mini pallet systems, and it makes this round part
with axial and radial milling beautifully.
I mean, it is just an absolute beautiful part,
but it parts it off and it drops it into this.
What I've said before is just a big dumb box.
Now it worked just fine when we had smaller parts
where we could run it overnight
and we would come in to hundreds and hundreds of small parts that were
main spindle, parts of spindle axial
drilling I'm sorry, radial drilling along the the profile of the part.
It was great and small diameter.
It didn't really wear tools.
But when we get to the two inch and larger parts,
that's where you want the reliability to just be rock solid.
Now, I did buy a probe with this machine.
The thought there is during the day
you run in, you have lots of people around.
If they hear a bump or crash or something, you can come save it.
At night when there's no one around You may just blast through an insert
and then come in the next morning and the turret is wedged up against the bar,
sticking out with a bunch of tool holders that are just nubs.
Okay, So that's that's worst case scenario.
The probe would have been able to do what what the Doosans do
natively and that's part cut off detection.
So the Doosans what they'll do is the sub spindle will grab it’ll part
and then it will measure the load as the B axis retracts.
So when it retracts, if it feels some pressure, it'll say
that the part did not get cut off properly.
Haas doesn't have that. That's a software thing.
I would love for them to implement that in their new machines.
Also we had these same parts,
we jammed the chip in the call it and when the ejector.
Well okay, first of all this doesn't have a sub spindle ejector, the Doosans do.
When our home made ejector didn't have enough force to push it out.
Well, guess what?
It tried to go pick up the next part and you have a B axis crash.
The Doosans have not only a part ejector, they have air blow off
and they have through sub spindle coolant wash out to get chips out.
Really pesky chips.
And also when the ejector goes to push the part, if it doesn't reach its
maximum extension, it will alarm out the machine saying part not ejected.
So those are two things that we couldn't walk away with full confidence overnight.
Also, I consider getting a Roto rack from Royal products.
We would have had to cut a a square like a rectangle hole in here
and run a conveyor to an accumulator, a table.
For the expense of I think it was maybe 13 to $15000 for that.
And then the installation and its own power source,
I just had to make the executive decision
that this wasn't the right machine for us moving forward.
Is it a great machine? I definitely think so.
Like I said, it's accurate, it's intuitive, It's the Haas
control really easy to program our posts from Fusion.
Just I mean, there's no hand editing.
It was it was fantastic.
But is it the machine that you can confidently walk away from overnight? No.
So there's been other times in business, card to our Robot series, where
the first time I bought a robot I realized that it's not as easy as making coffee.
Like they demonstrate in the videos and the trade shows, things like that.
This machine, it's great, but
just like the robot, my first robot, you just learn from it,
you sell it, you recoup as much money as you can and you move on.
So we've signed a deal with the machine reseller.
So the nice thing there, if you're in the same position, is when
the reseller sells it, if there's a loan, they'll pay off the loan.
The rest of the money either goes to you, but you're going to have to recoup.
I think it's recapture.
So you wrote off the whole thing, but then you sold it.
You get money back. Well, you're going to owe that taxes back.
But when you go through a machine dealer, they hold on to that money.
It never touches your hands.
And you can put that as a down payment onto the next machine.
And that's exactly what we did with Ellison
to get our new Doosan to replace this in just a few months.
So that's it for this episode.
I hope you learned a lot in the next episode, you're going to start to see us
configure the shop.
I'm going to go over the layout that we did and in future episodes, the build
out on both the north and south side of the building, it's going to be amazing.
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So until next time, go innovate your production.