eskimojay wrote:
profile makes all of their products in house , they have their own cnc machines , all they have to do is do the first initial design then punch it in to the machines computer and it does the rest , the only way one would cost more than the other to make would be if one takes more time for the machine to make uping the electric bill
Spoken like a true Eskimo..
It's not just the electric bill or hydro bill as you guys say..
Someone has to change the parts and load stock. The stock is also first cut to size, each piece, by a person on a band saw before the quarter million dollar CNC machine even gets near it.
The different tools the machine uses to make the cuts have to be kept track of and changed out on a schedule by parts count. Someone has to regularly check the parts (all dimensions) to make sure they are all within tolerance specifications. Parts often need to be deburred by hand once they come out of the machine. Also the parts have to be removed, deburred, and reloaded to machine the other side as well. Those machines don't add their own grease, clean clean themselves, or get their own coolant when levels get low either.
It's far more complex than you initially described..
Maintaining a helicopter is actually much simpler.
