Word of wisdom on Studer Grinding business

Are you a job shop owner wanting to compete with a million dollar machine. At $20 an hour your pay off of the machine is less than 4 years. This machine price and quality can help you quote for jobs at $60/hour and still leave a healthy margin. In today's market grinding jobs are being quoted from $120 to $450/ hour. There are jobs everywhere.

The machine effectively can be sold after 10 years for a 100K. Your write off on this machine is only a fraction of your competitor who buys the machine at new machine price.

If you buy a million Dollar machine, after 10 years it will be worth 150K.  Your depreciation would be 800K plus. Your hourly rate has to be in the $150/hour. This is for big corporations, where risk is not rewarded.

You can compete with your competitor with a new machine for  1/10th of a price. In grinding new machine does not necessarily mean lower cycle time. I don't know of any grinding company who went out of business using these machines. If you buy this machine at right price and do the basic maintenance right, it is impossible to loose money, if you know how to keep 10 customers happy. 

To make a seven figure income you don't have to have 50 employees bringing in 10 million in revenues with a capital of 10 million. If you know how to get every efficiency out each machine / operator/ programming/ maintenance/ machine cost, one machine should make you 100K to 750K a year.

Studer parts are available for a long time. I have bought parts for a machine made in 1940s. Fanuc parts are available for a long time. Service available everywhere. I have bought parts for Fanuc 2000 control which was made in 1960s. 

Rebuild Levels

To accommodate your timelines and budget, you have 3 options to choose from.

• Rebuild A- We go through the machine and certify the machine and make it run without issues an you probably will have to do a fix in the next 4 years. 3 weeks

• Rebuild B - We change all mechanical parts and bring it 95% mechanically good. All hydraulics and B axis seals and bearings changed. Tables and centerline height recalibrated. All axes tuned. Looks about 60%. It is 95% because we are not changing all way covers. Way covers are 20K in itself. So you take a slight chance. 7 weeks

• Rebuild C- We do a full paint also. Mechanical 95%. Looks 95%. 12 weeks

Word on service and our core competency

In high tech industry with so much technology and automation, it is no secret the money is made in keeping the service cost down, changing only what you need and keeping up the uptime. You can beat a big customer with heavy capital budget with your uptime and the knowledge. Welcome to "knowledge economy". This is where we come in. People who buy machine from us save money on capital, service and uptime. You need a drmachines.com when your machine is sick. We are service guys selling machine. We cannot hide like big OEM.

               Call *Ven at 937 609 5387 or Ven@cnconestop.com

Have a conversation. You are under no pressure. Check us out and see what we are capable of. We don't go in circles answering your question. If we can educate you on the machine and grinding process and the business we are happy to do so. We have helped so many companies start grinding business including overseas. It takes 1 year before a customer is convinced they want o do this. Then they stay with us forever. There is a reason we have 1200 customers.