Everybody wants to do what is new.We do what is necessary.
Practical CNC operations consulting for Calgary and Alberta machine shops. Over 20 years on the floor.
Most machine shops do not have a machining problem. They have a dependency problem. The shop runs because two or three people know things that are not written down anywhere, and everyone finds out how much they know the week one of them is away. Calgary CNC Consulting helps small and midsize shops replace memory with routine – so setups repeat, promise dates hold, and the business stops depending on who happens to be in that day.
What usually brings people to us
When your best setup man is off, the week falls apart.
One person’s knowledge is the whole process. It has always worked, right up until it doesn’t.
You are quoting four weeks on jobs that take six.
Nobody asked production before the date went out, and now the shop is running weekends to cover it.
A new operator takes nine months to become useful.
There is no training system – there is a good man being asked to explain things while he works.
Why a machinist and not a consultant
Over 20 years running, setting and programming CNC machines before doing this. That matters for one practical reason: a procedure written by someone who has never had to hold a tolerance on a Friday afternoon gets nodded at and ignored. Everything here is built on the floor, with the people who have to use it, and tested before it becomes policy.
Start with a conversation, not a contract
The first meeting is one hour and costs nothing. Half of it is spent walking your shop, because twenty minutes on the floor tells us both more than a morning in the office. At the end you will get an honest opinion – including, if it applies, that you do not need outside help right now.
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