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Kip Hanson
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Contributing Editor, SME Media
Tucson
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Biography
Kip Hanson is a freelance writer and manufacturing consultant with nearly four decades of industry experience, much of that working with ERP software providers and their customers. He’s written six books and more than 1600 magazine articles, covering everything from machining and fabricating, 3D-printing, tooling, metrology, and yes, ERP software. He can be reached at kip@kahmco.net
All things manufacturing
Any company or brand the general public will not know.
Content
By Kip Hanson| Smart Manufacturing Verified Still, I was managing a small shop and concerned about all the time we wasted setting tool lengths, never mind the occasional crash due to a fat-fingered offset. I knew the owner wouldn’t spend the cash for a presetter, so I cobbled one together from an old surface plate, a drop indicator and a glass scale I’d picked up for a few hundred bucks. Then, I sold a story about the experience to a trade magazine. It was my first writing gig and one of a few dozen articles I’ve shared on the topic.
By Kip Hanson| Smart Manufacturing Verified 1. Shop RatesMany shops use blanket costing, quoting and burden rates for all of the machinery on the production floor. Sure, it’s easy to say, “Our shop rate is $125 per hour,” but does this make sense? Why should the $250,000 five-axis machining center that still has a loan on it have the same rate as the engine lathe collecting dust in the corner, or the three-axis vertical that you paid off during the Bush administration? 2. Customer DataEstimating takes a lot of time.
By Kip Hanson| Smart Manufacturing Verified Terry is the estimator for Dave’s Precision, a 50-person job shop in Anytown, USA. He learned his job from the owner, who reluctantly handed over the quoting reins a few years ago. Dave also handed over a spreadsheet that he began working on nearly two decades ago and has continuously tweaked ever since.
Company Info
SME Media
Tucson, United States