Congrats on making it through, started watching when the fidget spinner was a thing, but stayed for the amazing growth of your company well done truly inspiring.
This is so awesome... I love that you are back to YT. I will be looking out for every upload. I would love to see more of the new CNC mill and development work or anything really...I have been watching all your previous uploads again... I cannot wait to see all of your content showing all sides of your business, ups or downs...Welcome back!
Looking forward to what you have in store. It's awesome that you are bringing in people and machines that will free you up to do what you enjoy actually doing.
Weirdly enough, cnc milling probably what I'd like to do in the ideal world - I really enjoy that. But I can't do that AND take the business where I feel it can go ...so there is a trade-off. But, yeah, having good people is the biggest of game-changers.
Good to have you back in youtube, and looking forward to seeing new kickstarter projects now that you will have some more time for coming up with ideas and designing stuff!
There's no reason that kitamura couldn't be running 24/7. That's what it's built for. Assuming you have the probes, that is a set and forget machine with proper macros setup. Even without the tool probes. The idea being, particularly with your parts, load both pallets full, run and let it run over night. Come in morning, change parts, check, tools, run etc..
Yes, yes and YES Manny. I'm really wanting to aim for that. We have to figure out a workflow and work towards that. Currently a pallet of parts (on average) takes 20 minutes to machine ...and we can theoretically do four pallets per tombstone ...so that's 8 x 20 = 160min = 2.6 hours there. So more development needed to get to 4,5,6+ hours unattended. But, yeah, the machine is built to run 24/7.
@@MagnusMacdonald 100% should be running on all 4 sides of both tomb stones. And with your reoccuring parts you need a central pallet system. Nothing special just an piece of aluminium doweled to the tombstone and some miteebites to hold parts. Say you have a pallet for each product you intend to machine and have them doweled and bolted or similar into the tomb stone. Then the idea being once you have a standard product line, standardized tooling and proven programs you can just swap in and out pallets as you see fit and have a central macro to call specific programs for specific faces, assign g54, 55 etc dynamically. Like pseudo pallet management.. You might decide you want 50x product a, 30x product b etc.. so you load those products onto your pallets and then just schedule the programs to the pallet faces. Then you want product c, swap pallet, change one number, done. I'm not sure how you manage inventory but you can average out total process time blank to finished part ready to ship, figure out your stock qty and average sales then work production from that. Honestly I enjoy the systemization more than the machining. Do you have the probing and tool measuring probe?
@@mannycalavera121 Ah, yeah, this sounds like a pretty cool way of doing it. We need to get a workflow of sorts first I think. Sometimes we are doing short runs ...sometimes long ...and sometimes we never make the product again. We don't have wireless probing or such yet - but something we're aiming for. It would be nice to be able to switch out a tombstone perhaps ...rather than standing at the machine for up to 10 minutes for each of the four sides of a pallet.
If you make more tiwallets (please 🤞🏻) I would buy two. My original was unfortunately stolen. I signed up for the newsletter in case you make more. Do you plan on it? Thank you, and I wish you the best.
I subscribed for those cool Fidget Spinners like... 2 years ago? Maybe 3? Man, you wasted so much time, that the fidget spinner mania died before your products become a real thing
Congrats on making it through, started watching when the fidget spinner was a thing, but stayed for the amazing growth of your company well done truly inspiring.
Cheers wolf. Yeah, almost all subscribers/viewers are from the fidget days - glad to have you on board! 👍👍
This is so awesome... I love that you are back to YT. I will be looking out for every upload. I would love to see more of the new CNC mill and development work or anything really...I have been watching all your previous uploads again... I cannot wait to see all of your content showing all sides of your business, ups or downs...Welcome back!
Cheers Ian. Yeah, planning some videos now ...but there will likely be quite different to what I've done before (just a heads-up :-D).
Sounds like a strong plan. Once production gets the units out the door things will improve amazingly. I'm glad you are back! 😃
Yes, hopefully James. The next few weeks and months will be interesting.
So great to have you back. Looking forward to seeing more from Magnus Industries!
Cheers Lucas. Correspondence with you yesterday pushed me to get this video out. "The Lucas Effect"? 😁
Looking forward to what you have in store. It's awesome that you are bringing in people and machines that will free you up to do what you enjoy actually doing.
Weirdly enough, cnc milling probably what I'd like to do in the ideal world - I really enjoy that. But I can't do that AND take the business where I feel it can go ...so there is a trade-off. But, yeah, having good people is the biggest of game-changers.
Good to see you back. Hope it keeps moving forward for the better.
Thank you Tim. Yes, let's hope I stay this time!
Keep the faith. Keep advancing. Blessings. It can be achieved
Yes! Thank you!
0:22 FUCK YEAHHHHHH!!!! Videos again is the best news I’ve heard in a while. I miss your motivation!!
Good to have you back in youtube, and looking forward to seeing new kickstarter projects now that you will have some more time for coming up with ideas and designing stuff!
There's no reason that kitamura couldn't be running 24/7. That's what it's built for. Assuming you have the probes, that is a set and forget machine with proper macros setup.
Even without the tool probes.
The idea being, particularly with your parts, load both pallets full, run and let it run over night. Come in morning, change parts, check, tools, run etc..
Yes, yes and YES Manny. I'm really wanting to aim for that. We have to figure out a workflow and work towards that. Currently a pallet of parts (on average) takes 20 minutes to machine ...and we can theoretically do four pallets per tombstone ...so that's 8 x 20 = 160min = 2.6 hours there. So more development needed to get to 4,5,6+ hours unattended. But, yeah, the machine is built to run 24/7.
@@MagnusMacdonald 100% should be running on all 4 sides of both tomb stones. And with your reoccuring parts you need a central pallet system. Nothing special just an piece of aluminium doweled to the tombstone and some miteebites to hold parts. Say you have a pallet for each product you intend to machine and have them doweled and bolted or similar into the tomb stone. Then the idea being once you have a standard product line, standardized tooling and proven programs you can just swap in and out pallets as you see fit and have a central macro to call specific programs for specific faces, assign g54, 55 etc dynamically. Like pseudo pallet management.. You might decide you want 50x product a, 30x product b etc.. so you load those products onto your pallets and then just schedule the programs to the pallet faces. Then you want product c, swap pallet, change one number, done.
I'm not sure how you manage inventory but you can average out total process time blank to finished part ready to ship, figure out your stock qty and average sales then work production from that.
Honestly I enjoy the systemization more than the machining.
Do you have the probing and tool measuring probe?
@@mannycalavera121 Ah, yeah, this sounds like a pretty cool way of doing it. We need to get a workflow of sorts first I think. Sometimes we are doing short runs ...sometimes long ...and sometimes we never make the product again. We don't have wireless probing or such yet - but something we're aiming for. It would be nice to be able to switch out a tombstone perhaps ...rather than standing at the machine for up to 10 minutes for each of the four sides of a pallet.
You can do it! You are the one who made the best fidget spinners in the world when they became popular! It could be one of your selling points. :)
Thanks Yohan. Yeah, those were the days. Would like to make spinners again some time ...we still get asked for them often.
i really admire your works, exited for new videos xD
You are my hero, you don't give up and continue to put one foot in front of the other.
If you make more tiwallets (please 🤞🏻) I would buy two. My original was unfortunately stolen. I signed up for the newsletter in case you make more. Do you plan on it? Thank you, and I wish you the best.
I still like cogent. Don’t give up on it completely just yet.
I subscribed for those cool Fidget Spinners like... 2 years ago? Maybe 3?
Man, you wasted so much time, that the fidget spinner mania died before your products become a real thing
I bought a hubris. He sold a few different spinners. I've carried mine everyday since I got it.
I'd buy one Magnus spinner today if they were available
Common Magnus!! When are you coming back??😩
Do some videos showing off your employees
When you gonna be back ?
Also dropped by to ask this
Wait bro do you walk down newton street in the mount a lot of days??
Certainly do. Where do you work?
Hope you’re doing ok, no updates? you sound totally burned out in this video. Hope the new hire worked out for you.
Ammm..ammmm..ammm
Did you make lots of money selling those stupid expensive fidget spinners?
Yeah, they did well. Sold around 1200+ at $149 each. So maybe a couple of hundred grand or something.
Still no free will?
Absolutely. I've not thought about it too much recently - but, yeah, it's still 100% an illusion.
I'm a little confused about your cash flow issues but yet you continue to hire new people? Maybe I'm missing some details?
send me the bolty mechanical pencil free thanx :)