INCREDIBLE FULLY Automated Machine Shop! MetalQuest Shop Tour! 

Talk about a well oiled machine. Best shop tour to date!

Intelligent and innovative company, great ideas, love the water on demand feature. Thanks for sharing and stay safe all.

The inventory control is over the top : A place for everything, and everything in it's place.

Mr John, these shop tours great. Your thirst for knowledge and understanding, comes out in a way that is compelling to watch. And by doing so, you enable our thirst for knowledge and understanding.

What a company. Can see the staff has a good reverence for the boss man there while still being easy. Great stuff thanks for sharing!

I like that implementing automation was done by changing the jobs the person would do. Not fire them.

I'll not be surprised if they know exactly how many coffee beans they have in their kitchen area.

Gday John, absolutely mind blowing to say the least, the most simple solution turns into a massive time saver, thinking simple really does pay off, thank you John and all the guys there for the opportunity to show us this amazing shop, please stay safe, Cheers Matty

So excited right now. Been waiting forever to see this.

The owner is so passionate and excited about everything in his shop. So cool to see.

So cool! Always enjoy these shop tours and seeing things I likely never would otherwise.

Very impressed with him! Well spoken and knowledgable.

Great video John, this is the only way for our country to stay competitive. I come from this automation world, our car plants are very simular to this type of automation and had the privilege installing many systems. Keep up the good work on the shop tours.

It's this forward thinking that'll keep this shop floating above the rest for years to come. Thanks for sharing this. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

And people say all manufacturing went to China. Well... after recent events hopefully we get some more of this level of manufacturing back state side. Brushless motors and other equipment would be nice to see.

It's so refreshing to see a shop where everyone is so excited and proud of their operation, and is so well organized. Really great video! Lot's of great ideas to stay organized and run a top-notch operation.

John, thanks for making this shop tour video, and thanks to MetalQuest for being so open. Gracious Professionalism all around. I'm sharing with my robotics students as this is really inspiring, even I want a job doing this kind of engineering.

Wow!!! Thank you for taking the time to do this and show the amazing capabilities of a group of very smart people.

The Milling Machine was invented in the USA. Other nations might be good at making cheap copies but ingenuity reigns supreme in the American Heartland!

This is incredible. It always floors me, the level of sophistication and cleanliness these business have!

John has demonstrated the 4th dimension of social distancing: time

Everything has its place and every place has its thing. Great shop great tour great people. Thanks for the video.

MetalQuest has an innovative mindset we can all learn from. An adoption of the approach they use to optimize their processes by other American manufacturers will bring more work back to the US. Thank you for sharing!

dammit, John! I didn't have time for this today.....well, I guess I did since I watched it end to end the minute it got published :) More please!

Finally decided to watch the NYC CNC video with a whole bunch of robots. "Hi folks, we are here at Metalquest in Hebron Nebraka." Wait, what? HEBRON NEBRASKA???? Nebraska? Robots? Manufacturing? Ok, yeah Vise Grip pliers were invented here (favorite tool of people who don't know how to use tools), but you tend not to notice manufacturing, because most is ag related or industrial products. Both tend to be under the radar. That is an amazingly impressive shop. Didn't know anything like that existed in the state. The way they track everything is very impressive. Of course when you're competing with $1-$2 per hour labor in China and India, you've got to squeeze every last ounce of efficiency out of materials, manufacturing, finance, the whole thing, and these guys are doing it. I wish them well! I hope you enjoyed the trip. Thanks for the video!

This guy is my soul mate.

Holy Moly. This place is truly impressive. Thanks for sharing your visit John.

Those robots speak excellent American English, plus the tattoos, and the flotation devices around their centerlines… FULLY INCREDIBLE! 😂

Very well organized. Helps keep control of cost, cuts down on surprizes.

Too date one of the best tours!!!!! thank you Matt C.

The organisation is mind boggling and i love the robots. Look how enthusiastic and happy everyone is.

Amazing video, Super clear innovative company, wow!

All in all, great tour!!! Those folks are amazing.

Wow what a machine shop!! That guy knows his stuff!.. Some really cool ideas and innovations. Thanks i enjoyed that will be watching it a few times 👍👍

Thanks for the video always enjoy your shop tours the best keep them coming.

You said this is the coolest shop you've seen at the beginning. I though yea, he's probably saying that to every shop, but after watching the video, I totally agree!

Fantastic! I watched it twice just to pick up aspects I missed the first time.

That was awesome. Looks like a cool place to work.

Nice video! Everyone is so passionate about what they're doing!

I love your videos! They are very informative. One thing I notice though, the gentleman speaking, said that butterfly valves make great flow control valves. Please note that butterfly valves make terrible flow control valves they do however make great quick acting stop valves.

Really cool shop! Great video John!

A really awesome video, thank you. Makes one want to go into robotics and CNC programming :)

Those people know what temperature the bottom of your shoe is. That shop is amazing.

Scott's enthusiasm is awesome!

very nice documentation! 😍

amazing company

Mind Blown - wow !!!

Brilliant.

That was super dope!

Thank You. It is a Great, Innovative Company.

amazing !!

holy cow! thank you

Awesome ! very much inspired to work smarter -

that seems to be one badass place to work :)

Keep the videos coming,big fan

Maybe I am just to german but 90% of the „new innovative“ stuff is standard in above average factories here. Still its an amazingly clean and well run machining shop but to be honest I am quite surprised that tool lifetime management, „intelligent wrenches“ or inventory management isn’t already industry standard in the US. With my company we are even able to locate all large and most small components by RFID beacons and we track almost everything throughout the process. (Fortunately tracking the workers is illegal here :P) As always great and informative video. I still really enjoy shopfloor tours.

Nice video!!!! Thanks for sharing. John

Badass shop, would love to work for a company like that.

Mind blowing shop!

Jaw dropped a few times during the viewing of this video !!

John, I really enjoyed this tour. So many great takeaways I watched much of it more than once. Do you know what ERP system they are running?

Amazing man/company

what cnc milling machine would you recommend for a beginner in cnc machining. I have experience in a workshop but I am new to cnc and would love to do it. Thanks for answering. Great videos and thank you again.

Things have advanced so much since I started in the machine industry back in 1973

Social distancing through use of robots ... or is it “enforced by robots”?

45:46 That's how they pack parts? No foam between the parts or sides of the box???

This is how it should be done👍

Christ, how many people were needed to figure out and install all of that technology?

good quality

Got to be the best so far. And there in the United States.

These guys are established!

used to be a fanuc operator for over a decade very specialized language and kinematics for smaller stuff try universal robots has more io built in (generally around 5kg payload)

Wow.

unbelievable. i want a job there

Tool Boss blew my mind!

Another Fantastic futuristic workshop 🥇👌 Not seen by public but Watched 370k views in youtube Techporn NYC cheers 10/10🙃🦘

This is how we stay ahead of the rest of the world. Thanks John.

Holy smokes...those guys know their bussiness.....

....and there goes the neighborhood...a Staubli Robot with all those FANUC bots...(Partial to FANUC, I worked for them in the R&D/Systems engineering team...Matter of fact, that rail system that one FANUC is on was one of the first projects I worked on while there. Started it all with an M16 (16Kg) robot. We expanded it into the M710's and such...BTW: That rail based item? Talking more than 20 years ago...LOL..."state of the art"...LOL

i think their maintenace was so awesome. What if 1 of the robots will bug down for a long time? May we know that they do ot it?

check out heat shrink unit from iscar i have one and can do 3 tools at a time and cool 3 tools also

wonder what cnc machines they would recommend someone to purchase???

This is probably not the best video to post this question, but i thought id throw it out there and see if i get a response... Maybe AVE, This Old Tony, or NYC CNC and others can weigh in. Recently my son and I have switched from SprutCAM to Fusion 360 for our tormach 1100, and unless were mistaken (please advise) we noticed there seems to be some issue with the tool holders and tool height setup. Normally we measure overall height of a tool and its holder using a surface plate and height gauge, and would set our total tool height in SprutCAM to this value. In fusion, with the tool holder feature turned on, the overall height of the tool is a function of the tool stickout and tool holder height, not the height from the surface plate. We measured several of our er-20 tool holders, and found a variance of up to 0.020", so it is not possible to use the tool holder height to calculate the total tool length ( tool holder height + tool stickout) which seems to be how fusion does it. Are we missing something, or is this a problem? We get around this issue (and from what we can find online, so does everyone else) by turning off the tool holder feature and using our surface plate measurement as the stickout value. But this means we will not be able to predict collisions with the tool holder in simulation, so we would like to have this work properly.

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Suggestion for another Nebraska Video: TMCO, Lincoln, NE

I would rather work in this machine shop.

One fact I cannot get over was what the fanuc robot salesman told me (in Utah); from logan to provo, there are about 5,000 fanuc robots in operation and lifetime products (a massive company with 2 million sq feet of manufacturing space in clearfield), owns about 80. Where are all those robots?! That doesn’t even include abb

I would like to see some sheet metal factories especially if they have in house tool and die for stamping

thats amazing john. A question for you.. I can not find you on instagram, do you have one no?

I'd love to know more about the software they've got for managing tool life

39:58 How small is that machining vice it looks so tiny ? D:

At 11:40 .. did he say he was using "auto tool assignment" ..in so many words. For his family of parts sizes?

First I did not want to watch because it was too long... Now I wonder why it ended... Lovly 🏭, really nice.

Okuma and Fanuc are both Japanese companies. One of them is over 100 years old, the other 60. Good reasons why you don't buy Chinese if you are serious about your tooling.

Need a knuckle on that rb-1 in the beginning, so it can take a part off, turn the knuckle and install the next part in one movement.

Could anyone tell me which tool he used at @12:15, to view the hole for surface finish?

"So I met this guy at this trade show" he says.

I swear there was a CNC box making machine in this video but I cant find it, Can anyone suggest?

wow...

they are the guys