Ray Henry wrote: > > Second thought is connected to the idea of web mediated manufacturing. > Yep someone would need to take the lead at least on a per product basis. > That person would probably never make the kind of wages that a product > coordinator (vice president) might make in a traditional business. > Probably the leader of that first product would not make much at all on > it. There is a lot of manufacturing ability among us. We've got folk > who can handle everything from electronic and computational circuits to > metal working to assembly, distribution, accounting, and product > liability. > > The nice thing about a web mediated manufacturing business is that it > scales nicely. Let me use a couple of fictional names to illustrate. > Pete takes on the task of milling the pendant housing after Bob draws it > up and produces the NGC enabled g-code. If we sell more of them than > Pete can make, Dave might jump in and use his mill a few hours a week. > If Matt get's swamped with assembly perhaps Alex might pick up assembly > for his part of the world. You get the idea. Wow, this is interesting! I have a Bridgeport that sits a LOT of the time. That is no problem, because it is there when **I** need to make parts, but it is not really earning its keep other times. I also have a machinist friend who would be available to run it when I'm tied up. Now that I am finally up to date with EMC2, the compatibility issues are gone, too.
I am pretty well set up to make equipment cabinets, too, so sheet metal setups are kind of a specialty here. I have a shear that mostly works and a finger brake, and a Roper-Whitney punch that i misuse as a notcher. I cut the flat blank for the box, notch the inside corners and then machine front, back, bottom, etc, then fold it, paint it (now working to move to powder coating). I also have a surface-mount pick and place machine running, and a thermocouple-controlled toaster oven for solder reflow. So, if someone has some little board they need assembled, like the pendant mentioned above, I could do that. I also have a high-end PCB design package (Protel 99) which I can use to design boards with high density components, multiple layers, etc. if needed. If any of this is of use to the EMC community, I'd be glad to make it available, as it is usually under-used. If somebody is working on a pendant project, I'd be real interested, too, as I've wanted to do one for some time. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
