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 who has 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 250K /shift to 750K a year. Quite a few people make a 7 figure income with 2 people and 1 shift. If you can learn thread grinding, non round grinding and ID non round grinding there is no limit to what you can do with a small foot print and still enjoy a leisurely life.

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.                          

 

A)   This is how we REFURBISH the machine

• X axis ways cleaned and checked for geometrical accuracy

• Z axis ways cleaned and checked for geometrical accuracy

• B axis checked for leaks and seals changed as necessary. Geometrical alignment done.

• Work head checked for accuracy, bearing changed as necessary

• Tail stock - Seals changes and checked and aligned for accuracy

• Complete hydraulic overhaul. This is the life of the machine. All valves overhauled.

• Way covers checked for integrity and replaced as necessary

• All wipers and seals changed

• Sanded and painted as necessary (Learn new paint option below)

• Hydraulic and air hoses changed as necessary

  B) This is how we REBUILD the machine

• X axis ways cleaned, ball screw changed, Covers changed.

• Z axis ways cleaned, ball screw changed, Covers changed.

• B axis checked for leaks and seals changed as necessary. Geometrical alignment done.

• Work Head bearings changed

• Tail stock - Seals changes and checked and aligned for accuracy

• Complete hydraulic overhaul. This is the life of the machine. All valves changed.

• Plastic track changed

• All wipers and seals changed

• New Monitor

• Electrical cabinet put back in order

• C axis cable changed

• B axis motor cable changed

• All new hoses - Hydraulic and Pneumatic

• Sanded and painted as necessary ( Learn new paint option below)

 C) This is how we do -"Studer Equivalent REBUILD"

• Complete new paint - strip down, Acid Wash, Sand blast, 3 coat Epoxy - 24K

• All new hydraulic fittings and valves and pump - 7K

• Complete new Granitan base / Rebuild the base - Call for pricing. We can do both.

This is not necessary for all customers. Only if you ran bad coolant or carbide ran machine you might want this option.   Visit the other Tabs to see our rebuild of the components and how detail we do.

D) This is how we do -"Onsite Rebuild"

Two member teams arrive at your place on Sunday. A complete rebuild is carried out at site at you place. This is done in two weeks. You give us one person as a helper. Give us all the lifting capability. Look at onsite project tab to see how it was carried out. Normally 8 to 12 days. 2 People , a total 200 to 300 hours (Including travel), your machine will become almost new with almost all necessary parts changed. The idea is to give you a 20000 hour mechanically sound machine. If you have the capability to paint at the same time, your machine will look like new. The project runs at a hyper phase to get you back to service as fast as possible. The past experience shows tremendous savings, due to machine not being moved an done at 10 days. It is all in your hands, how much you can support us.

What is the difference between servicing a machine and rebuilding a machine

The difference between a machine serviced and rebuilt is, we not only change the parts, but also match the machine to perfection. Grinding is about matching the parts. That is why all used machines / rebuilt machines are not equal. There is a reason why high end cars are hand crafted and matched to perfection.

The matching starts from the bottom up. The ball screws aligned to perfection. Table has to be cleaned stoned and ground to make sure it sits flat and and straight in every possible way. The tailstock has to be matched to the machine. Based on the table height, wheel head height and the work head height all has to be matched. We may have to grind whatever is easier to grind and test it again.  It can sometimes take two or three trials. The height and the face need to be machined to get the correct height and straightness with respect to how much wear is on your work head.  It is an art. I can guarantee you no service guy can do this let alone understand it. It takes a lot more resources and understanding machine design from the scratch. When you select someone to rebuild ask this one question. "What is centerline and how does he match it?". When we rebuild a machine in our shop this alignment can take us from 1 week to 3 weeks.

We do the above mentioned steps in our facility.  When you get  a machine from us the centerline height is matched to perfection. We speak in microns.

Rebuild your own Studer

If you want to rebuild your Studer, give us a call or send pictures of your machines and tell us what are all the things you need from the above. You may be the one wanting all done in one go or you may choose to fix only what is broken. You may want to do it at your place. You may like to send it to our facility  or in our facility at Dayton, Ohio. We can give you the pricing in 24 hours. We build one machine at a time, and satisfy one customer at a time. Reserve our calendar so that we can make it happen for you in a timely manner. We give a date and we stand by it. We don't move your date because we have another machine.

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