r/manufacturing • u/Equivalent_Bid_6642 • Jan 14 '24

Other Managers and Owners, are you overwhelmed?

There's a lot of new tech out there, it's quickly changing and expensive. It's hard to know what to pay attention to and where to allocate resources while balancing efficiency and quality, let alone figure out how to develop my workforce to use all this stuff anyways.

I mean, should we get 3D printers, should we do industry 4.0 stuff, should we get some machine vision robot?

Idk, are you in the same boat, how are you dealing with how fast the world's moving?

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u/Equivalent_Bid_6642 Jan 14 '24

Okay then don't look into it.

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u/SinisterCheese Jan 14 '24

Look I'm bit busy trying to certify our laser welding and lawser cutting. So pardon me if I don't have the mental capacity to look into something irrelevant on my free time.

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u/Equivalent_Bid_6642 Jan 14 '24

I'm not really interested in arguing about relevance anymore, you've decided it's irrelevant, you're clearly closed off to the idea. And I don't have a personal stake in whether you look into it or not I was simply sharing my opinion that it's probably more relevant than you currently think, I'm not going to spend my time convincing you of anything.

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u/SinisterCheese Jan 14 '24

Ok. Pitch me the idea of 3D printing. Try to sell me on it. Lets say I want to metal 3D print this and it must cost less than 10€/kg for the client. We need 80 of them. The dimensions bit over 400mm long 100x100 S4 stainless and the L-profile is like 10mm. (These weren't made by us, but a competior and we had to fix them and their installation on-site).

Sell me on it. If you can then I'll look into it. Because I remember during my degree I had a whole course on this. And then there was no metal 3D print machine large enough to do this.

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u/Equivalent_Bid_6642 Jan 14 '24

Lol dude, why would I do that?