Originally Posted by
Mark Bolton
That works when all the work is done and your in and out the door with no customer BS. 3 parts at 8 minutes maybe off the machine (count it as 15 with BS), a sheet of material (probably would run double refined for this), order, receive material, load to machine, off load, scraps, dust, tool wear. yeah, $150 in profit works. I think we pay in the mid to high 30's for double refined or super refined. Still only puts you at $50 bucks in time and materials. Add in the disruption in the schedule to run one here and there and it may not be so great unless you run them after hours.
We run a TON of small parts out of material that is trivial (just under $10 a sheet) and at the onset the margins look obscene. But when your really get done with every bit of it. They are fair/tight.