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Nice work Jay… makes me glad I got your autograph at a Saunders Machine Works open house a few years ago LOL. Your content and ‘vibe’ of Peace are 5-star. My side hustle income is starting to equal Day Job income, all thanks to the useful input I get from you and people like you on YT & IG. Keep up the good work 👍👍.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

That's fantastic to hear! Gotta love a side hustle that gets good traction!

Jay, you are a gift for the CNC human branch. Thank you for your help and generosity via the You Tube channel. Be Blessed in all your ways and means, your family and your CNC crew. Salutations from France.

@PiersonWorkholding

Күн бұрын

Very kind. I'm humbled. Thanks for watching from France.

I get so happy any time you post a video. I always learn something! If you have nothing else to do, make more! ;)

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Bill. I appreciate it. More videos on the way

This is such a valuable video. You share processed experience into dense and usable knowledge for everyone to learn. This kind of video is pure gold for anyone interested in the trade, and even though I watch a lot of videos about it, it's the first one I find talking about this subject that everyone seems to avoid talking about (or hide their successful secrets)

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Something I may add to the speech about robots vs pallets/high density. 1. pallets are a great introduction to parts at scale for relatively cheap. 2. A pallet is a great test of your design and manufacturing process. If you cannot make a great process on a pallet. Your likely not ready for deeper automation. I experienced this on a order of 2000parts. 3 part assembly. Made a “super great” pallet that work flowed the job great, 2 pallets for hot swap, bla bla bla. I learned quickly that my design was insufficient. I should have chosen a larger pallet to avoid deflection from the uniformed clamps. Ok. Runn the inner not the outer posters, fine. Pallets went great. I’ve done the job a few times now and pallets run as expected. But boy. I like to be lazy. And boy pallets are wicked efficient but busy work to feed that machine in my application. Turns out it’s a barfed lathe job. The kicker is, I made good money on a small investment, proved the parts and market and can now move on. There was no way I would have, or even should have gone straight to the bar feeder. I would not have. I was young and woulda bought and arm. And scrapped SOOOO MUCH becouse they don’t see that chip. That dent in the jaw. What a frustration and $$ loss that would have been! If I had employees I would have remade a thicker pallet and kept running. It was wicked productive and great profits. Lesson is, don’t short change simplicity. And don’t over credit your skills thinking GUI can go straight to lights out. Or even an attended robot. There is something to be said for the human touch to catch the smallest things that ruin a process

Great video! I love that the first steps of standardization are the least expensive and most impactful. I plan to share this video in the market-wide guide on machine tending automation that I am putting together. I'd love to have readers who are looking to spend $50,000 on a co-bot instead decide to change their work-holding for a couple thousand to achieve even greater throughput.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Really good perspective. In Musk's 5 steps, what you described is the step to "simplify" your audience's approach.

What a great talk. You've gotten very comfortable on stage. Great job and inspiring. Head to my shop now.

I really enjoyed this presentation, have experienced similar opportunities throughout my career with standardization and high density work holding that resulted in positive impact on work flow and quality. I will definitely share this video as it concisely communicates a message that everyone in manufacturing needs to hear.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

That's great to hear. Yes! Definitely share often. We gotta move this industry forward through better approaches.

Jay I’m simply so very impressed with you, your products and your great videos. In addition to everything else you’re a wonderful public speaker. In a way I’ve been somewhat similar. I always had a passion for all things motorcycle. After having my beautiful Harley stolen I decided to buy a nice used one and customize it. Well then I was really bitten by the bug. I soon decided to build a custom totally from scratch. At that time in my life I had my own shop with several CNC machines doing contract work. I always thought to myself, hey all I need to do is invent one part everyone wants ( but doesn’t really need lol) I’d be rich. I had the ability to make almost anything. Unlike you however I had been a journeyman toolmaker since 1972. So I too looked at things that didn’t already exist. Well I have created many items since that very first part. My first creation ended up launching this division of the mothership. The item was so good that no less than 7 other companies copied me. My patent was design only ( big mistake as you are aware) . Flattery yes! But that doesn’t put money in your pocket. I went on to create even more parts. Eventually ended up being distributed all over the world by the largest distributer in the world. I later even won an award for a part that I invented. Not bragging but it’s so similar to you and the knife maker chasing a dream. All was good till the Chinese ended up copying my stuff and selling at a price that even with automation I couldn’t compete with. Sad how even a utility patent didn’t give me enough protection on one intake I created. Anyway I just want to say how great your products are. I’ve retired and sold the business to my sons and hopefully have convinced them to buy some of your systems. For the work they do your systems would work perfect. Kudos my man!

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! Great story too (despite getting copied). Sometimes the most rewarding thing isn't the sales at the end, but the journey of creating something people need and appreciate enough to pay for.

Wow this was great! I work with a small machine shop that makes prototypes and a large variety of parts. My role is mostly 3D modeling and drawings but I try to help upgrade the shops processes and increase productivity where possible. This video was beneficial and inspirational. I too now have an idea and I want to use the things talked about here to see how we can achieve that same sense of peace. Thanks!

Agreed on standardized origin, maybe even one step further... I have one only, and it's center of table and top of a pair of mini pallet landing strips. I have palletized a vise and a 3 jaw chuck, multiple 20x12 high density full pallets. All are offset digitally, so easily referenced and It Works amazing for the last two years. I Model all stock and all workholding. love the workholding options pallets have opened up, thanks!

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Solid workflow! Thanks for sharing!

@justinbroderick4126

7 ай бұрын

@@PiersonWorkholding Any estimate as to when I can buy a pair of the new vise you're working on? The Kurt on a pallet is blowing up my elbows on install and removal, yours looks lighter...

good video mr pierson

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So....we are here to learn about manufacturing, automation, cool ideas for improvement and what not.... I think the main take away, for me, are the terms "life giving" and "peace". Peace is introduced early on in the talk, can be overlooked, but should not be. Peace is the seamlessness between needs and processes. The processes are satisfying exactly what is needed exactly as you hoped. Can beat that right?? The other phrase "life giving" had a much stronger impact on me. I'm starting to think in terms of energy and reciprocation of energy. If we bust our butts creating super cool ideas and processes for a unappreciative company (many of us), we receive no energy back. And worse, the energy is simply robbed from us. When Jay says "life giving", .........how to say it........ dont ever forget what we need to live. Life and energy. Dont give it away. Instead try to put it into a situation where your own life and those around you becomes better because of your creation. It's deeper than a KZread comment can go, should go, and will go at this moment. I hope many can feel that. Not money, not promotions, not just to get by, but to live and feel life circulating in and around you. To be both the cause and one of the beneficiaries of creating.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

That's some deep insight and I'm glad to hear you go some good takeaways. I go deeper into these topics on my new podcast. I wish I could remember which episode, but keep an ear open for my analogy of a 3-legged stool that I mention a few times: linktr.ee/leanbuiltpodcast

@sml8026

7 ай бұрын

​@@PiersonWorkholding 👌 Sure will. Best wishes.

Love your videos Jay, and such a great presentation, and dont get me started in the podcast you have. Could you advise on how to develop such great presentation and public speaking skills?

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm not a natural speaker. Practice makes progress I suppose!

You mentioned IMTS in the video, do you plan on having a Pierson workholding booth at IMTS Chicago 2024? If so I’d be excited to come by.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

I don't think I'll ever do a booth at IMTS but I'll be there to do a live podcast recording. Give it a listen here: linktr.ee/leanbuiltpodcast

I DO HAVE A QUESTION. I'm trying to buy my very first VMC and I'm thinking about the VM-6. But I'm really really worried to have buyers remorse because I'm not 100% sure if it is what I need. I'm just looking for the biggest (reasonable) table and I don't care about speed, I only care about accuracy and precision. What similiar machine other brands offer? do someone know? because all other sites I visited are very vague in the info they display. I don't know if I'm buying the best value for the money.

@PiersonWorkholding

7 ай бұрын

Our VM-3 is our most accurate machine, not by much, but still #1 among all our Haas'. I don't think you can go wrong with a VM-6 as a first machine. It's still plenty fast since it has a 15k spindle. You won't notice the slower rapids.

@ManuelRamcanny

7 ай бұрын

@@PiersonWorkholding you have no idea how much your blessing means to me. Thank you.

Have you looked into machines with a pallet pool? I've found that working with that type of automation is easier to adopt and integrate than robotic tending cells. Though it is usually a costly addition and investment, a pallet pool has enormous flexibility as you can run multiple part numbers and have it be an automated process. Plus it eliminates the amount of machines on a floor.

@PiersonWorkholding

6 ай бұрын

Yes, we love our pallet pools.