"The Kid" stopped by and visited for a bit tonight. His company has just promoted him to engineer, something that don't happen often for a guy without the four year ticket.
His job of the moment is moving production to a new Mori Seike 6 axis lathe with all the options, including a custom pick and place robot.
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's got a production part that has taken 18 minutes to make for years down to a 1.5 minute cycle time. Here's the kicker: the part is being exported TO China.
Karl