Machine Shop
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
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Power: Legacy machine shop equipment from 1950s-1980s cannot be automated
“And a lot of the capital equipment in all of the naval facilities or, you know, everywhere in machine shops is, you know, somewhere between from the 19 fifties to the 19 eighties. And it's just impossible to automate it because often none of them have computer…”
Sophinos: The 17,000 US machine shops are prime targets for vertical SaaS
“And the average machine shop is doing two million a year in revenue, right? There's 17,000 of them.”
Sophinos: Buy blue-collar workers lunch to get permission to shadow their workflows
“Just show up at machine shops and say, I'll buy everybody, I'll buy you guys lunch today. I know I probably look like a crazy person, but I'll buy you guys lunch today. If you just let me shadow the operation for today, go validate it.”
Noone: CNC toolpath generation is the costliest part of machine shop prototyping
“Generating a CNC toolpath is the expensive part of running a machine shop, especially something doing cutting edge hardware where you're prototyping, you're making one off runs. Most of that cost is going into engineering labor to generate the instructions for…”
Boyle: Hadrian founder returned PE capital before building automated factories
“So he raised a small private equity fund and talked to a bunch of different shops... Cause even if you are to try to bring software into these existing shops, it's almost impossible from a technical perspective. Like there's not much that can be done unless yo…”