jaredmclaughlin

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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
There was a plugin for Solidworks that did something similar for machining. You essentially had a side bar that estimated cost in real time as you designed. Feasibility I think can be done by rules checking / constraints but cost has a
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
I think it's feasible for someone to do this, and quite possibly the software you described, because these things are so standardized. There's a given spacing for studs of a given size, etc. I've thought about this for decks,
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
My experience kinda dovetails with what other folks have said. I've been a machinist for about 15 years. The early career stuff is low pay, rough conditions. In the middle things get a little better but the hours are long. I'm doi
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
"In May 2023, the median annual wages for machinists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:" I.e. we're only looking at the top paying jobs. Then, look at that we're taking a yearly pay to calculate
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
I was a CNC machinist, manager, etc. I went back to school for computer science because I believe CNC machining is about to take a big leap and the industry is going to dramatically shift. I think there are absolutely some applications of C
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
That just means the dies and molds wear out faster and need replaced. Your TV isn't machined but making it consumes machining services.
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
"The long, ever faster decline of machinist pay in the USA" "The long, ever faster decline of management skills in machining"
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by jaredmclaughlin 2y ago
I'm a machinist who got a CS degree in large part because I am also passionate about manufacturing in the US. Perhaps we should chat. I think my email address is in my profile here.
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Pittsburgh, the New Home of 3D Printed Steel(forbes.com)
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
Travel to foreign countries, meet interesting people, kill them and break their stuff.
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
The answer is a lot simpler, but takes a lot of grunt work and hard selling.
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
These things don't live in a vacuum. Those big skeleton crew shops open the door to innovation at higher levels of abstraction in the supply chain. Namely, it requires more of a model basis - materials and tolerances in the 3D model. T
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
This is only true with the current level of technology adoption. The economic lot size will trend towards a single unit as technology adoption improves.
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
This is actually going to go the other way. Too many people did this. The median job shop size in the US is 9 people. The capital equipment is very inefficiently utilized and the industry is generally technologically behind. It will soon co
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
We import a lot but we make a lot. I made a living supervising the manufacturing of the rolls used to roll steel in mill. We weren't exporting even the majority of the product.
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by jaredmclaughlin 3y ago
What part of a cell phone do you think we can't make?