I wasn't sure what to put in the subject line. Do most of you work on a single machine or program and operate more than one at the same time? The situation is like this. In our shop everyone almost exclusively belongs to one CNC so after making a program and setting it up very often operation sits there and waits for the machine to finish so he can put another part in. We almost never have long runs so it is seldom viewed as a problem. I run 5 axis dmu and I'm the only one in the shop except for the boss that knows how to program and run couple of Matsuuras. Sometimes When I have 5 or 10 minutes between parts I run 2 or 3 machines at the same time. Time goes by a lot faster and I never thought this would be a problem. Yesterday another machinist came by all upset and told me that our foreman asked him to set up another machine because he had about 30 minutes of free time between parts and he blamed me for it. He said he expects for this to happen more often now and it is my fault as I showed that I have no problem with it. Am I doing something wrong? How are other shops looking at that?
Jerry