Love your channel. I'm retired now but I worked for the Boeing Co. from 1972 through 1999. Served my 5 year apprenticeship for becoming a tool and die maker. Started with the conventional machines and ended up running the CNC machines later. My last 17 years was up stairs with the shirt and tie. I programmed main frame Catia using shell programming CAD CAM. My last project I worked on was in 1995 doing the Wings for the f22 Raptor. Composite materials were cool to cut using diamond cutters, had to machine within a period of time after coming out of the freezer. I love watching your channel and seeing all the new ways to machine such challenging projects.
The main thing i learn from watching your workshop tour video,s. Is you let us see how little we are doing. Compared to what others are doing. But saying that. It,s always good. To have someone pushing the limits for us to have someone to follow. I always like to see myself as a Mountain Climber ? When we have climbed that challenging mountain in front of us. Then find the next mountain to climb. For myself that is what life is about. Climb one mountain and conquer it. Then move onto the next one. And NEVER stop.
Your comments on machining apprenticeships is how it was done in the USA for decades. My father went through a machining apprentice program in 1955-1956 at Burlington Mills. There were over 1,000 machinist on site and about 100 apprentices at any one time.
Unfortunately not every workshop follows this theory. But as mentioned above it,s not to late and some are seeing the errors of there ways. The other unfortunate fact is Most. See apprentices as a means to save money on labour and only use the apprentices as a tool. Not to give them skills ???? To many times i have seen this.
When I did my five year apprenticeship many years ago at the local iron works they had a dedicated training building for all trades except mine they did fitting / machining / moulding but the sparks were not covered so they ship us out for the first year to a collage then we circulated the plants with a different mentor at each after four years you tended to work alone .but this was not small stuff but very large equipment cranes to 750 ton imp motors to 1.5 mega watt . All gone now and they now do it in six weeks . I was lucky I got included armature and stator winding in my circuit 🤭 It’s the sign of the times here in the UK but it’s great to see the ethos of investing in the future is still alive in Europe
John, next time you’re in Switzerland, pass by Lausanne area. There’s a handful of folks here (myself included) who were inspired by your story and put together small machine shops. We’d love to have you over, if you have the time. Cheers!
When I lived in Austria, I discovered that people don't usually go to university right away, and many never go at all. At the time, some of my friends decided to get a job and start earning money and they have eventually learned a high-paying high- skill manufacturing job. I'd strongly recommend anyone out of high school going into debt to study some underpayed course... to think again. After watching this videos, I saw the inequivocal HP12 Financial calculator, I knew right away John was finnance. Got to say, I got real inspired by his decision and opened my own CNC shop. There is very good money to be made manufacturing high quality products. And for the money it costs to go to college, a good investment would be buy some CNC machines and learn how to use them.
Minor nitpick but I don't think their program is an internship program. In Switzerland there's another category of work called an apprenticeship which lasts several years (4 in my industry), is managed by the state and conveys a state-recognised qualification on participants. It can (and usually does) start straight after compulsory schooling, around ages 14-16 (though apprentices can choose to start later, even at 40 if they want). It's actually a super common thing in Switzerland and it's not just for fields like manufacturing but for everything, including for example banking and IT.
Thats how my apprenticeship was. Working for a swiss owned major Airbag manufacturer by the name of Autoliv. I was always machining from day one in a R&D shop no less.I didn't know there was a different way?.
yeah because they did some smart marketing. heidenhein as an example goes to social shops or apprentice learn shops and offers them a machine for a really good price. but in the offer it is said it has to be an heidenhein controller. so the shops can buy a machine very cheap and heidenhein gets more used.
@@nyccnc John. Because. After all these years. You are still viewed by some as having NO skills ? It,s sometimes bad to be to honest with people. If you put yourself out there for all to judge you. ( RU-vid ) Some will Love you for it. While others will Never learn to except. That we can all learn something if we try. You have inspired many to follow in your footsteps. While others have always resented you for doing your best. If people used the same amount of energy to be Negative. Into being Positive they might even surprise themselves. I have NO secret Love for you. But i am always happy, to see people try there best with the time they have available in this lifetime. That is the Love i have for any one person.
This was one of the first factory tours I've done when we were part of a larger group.... Would love to go back sometime and film a longer "one on one" tour!
There is good reason other developed countries have manufacturing, that's in large part to the education programs they have. I don't it could be any clearer in the past 2 shop tours, we just don't have (many) programs like that in the us.
In Australia apprentices are only seen as a tool to save money on labour. Not to give them skills. It happens more than it should. But not all is lost though. There are still many shops that view apprentices as someone to share knowledge with and give them the skills to take to the next generation.
It is the same here, though you can take away what you need from the apprenticeships if your willing to grind through it. I got where I am because I worked under someone who pushed me, paid shit min wage, but I picked up all the skills and later certifications to later in life run a facility. They were rough years but worth it in the end. Still see my old boss at conferences and always buy him a beer. With what he paid me he should be buying though.
@@nyccnc Both 2D codes can vary in size to accommodate the size of part it is being printed on. (Like a bolt of a M4, which is really small, can have a tiny data matrix code on it.) QR codes can have about 2x as many alphanumeric characters stored on it. (4296 vs 2335) They both have built in error checking/redundancy and can work even if part of the code is missing. QR codes are more for linking to another information source, where data matrix is usually used to keep track of items, like a serial number. QR can be as small as 21x21 blocks, grows by 4 blocks on each row/column, for a max of 177x177 Data Matrix can be as small as 10x10 blocks, grows by 2 blocks on each row/column, for a max of 144x144. There are dozens of types of barcodes (1D) and 2D matrix codes, and even codes that employ both a 1D and 2D matrix, like PDF417 AND Ultracode. Just type, "types of barcodes," into Google and look at images. There are literally hundreds of different types of 1D and 2D codes/matrices.
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Do any of these guys ever mention what they're paying for those fancy IT systems? Is it in house, or are they paying a fortune to software companies that think they a silent partner in the business, then passing the cost onto their customers?
