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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…

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 …

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 g…

"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…

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 dramaticall…

That just means the dies and molds wear out faster and need replaced. Your TV isn't machined but making it consumes machining services.

"The long, ever faster decline of machinist pay in the USA" "The long, ever faster decline of management skills in machining"

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…

Travel to foreign countries, meet interesting people, kill them and break their stuff.

The answer is a lot simpler, but takes a lot of grunt work and hard selling.

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 mo…

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.

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 i…

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.

What part of a cell phone do you think we can't make?