......simply put, this is an absolutely incredible CNC automation success story. 

Wow been telling people they can do this for years. Great shop, layout and understanding of lights out manufacturing.

I thought running two cnc lathes with bar pullers and 1 cnc mill was a lot of work for one person. This guy beats me hands down.

While we were an Okuma shop.. We had many Matsuura's early on in our shop's beginnings. They were rock solid and never let us down. Mostly Twin Spindle verticals. Ran high Tech Fuel Control bodies for Military and Commercial aircraft. Great memories from the 80's and 90's...

Incredible that he can do all that on his own. There must be other operations and administration in the business.

Well done that man. Solid.

Good to see there are more like me who is struggling for skillied labor & Run mills by their own with automation 🙌😍

As someone who tried a bunch of Superstar parts on my bike over the past few years and found every penny saved initially was paid out with interest in the long run in wrenching time or replacement parts, this explains perfectly how the parts manage to look so good for the money, but self destruct shockingly quickly when they see actual mileage. The customers are the product testers 😞.

Still waiting for someone to license the automation tech from SendCutSend in the UK

To do what he is doing you need long term contracts with customers that you can depend on. It's likely that his customers own the fixtures he's using to produce their parts. That's really the only way a small shop like his can stay afloat financially. It's also scary because a new purchasing manager at one of his customers could wreck it all for him. Best of luck to you sir. You have a beautiful shop.

Very nice. What do you do with your swarf? Is is separated and recycled?

I wonder if these machines would work same as well if he would be machining steel parts not aluminium. There's way more tool wear and other issues

3 Laths and 2 multipallet machines, programming, tooling, methode fixtures planning, orderplanning, running the business. Deburring pieces, fixing the pieces on the fixtures, mesuring his pieces for quality, .... . All 1 person?? This man doesn't sleep anymore i think. Working with tombstone with all different pieces is not new. We are doiing it for 20 years. Robots are the future now.

These machines cost hundreds of thousands to millions of pounds. And you need very VERY high skill level and training to run them. Anyone can ultimately learn it, but if you have a business to run, you don't have the time to learn the basics... But this is what manufacturing looks like in western countries, low labor, high automation, very high end stuff. We cannot think we should be competing with China... even China has issues with labor costs being too high and having to replace millions and millions of workers with robots and automation. We need to rethink our world, when we only need 10 people to do work of a thousand, who's going to pay the taxes? How are people going to live? If we do not solve this and FAST, we cannot survive as a society.

We just got a MX850 on our floor. The repeatability and thermal control has been incredible so far!

Gezz, this bloke must have a good social/home life cause he’d be never there. I know there are people who love to work but Fk that! I work to live not live to work.