The Way You do Production Could Be Killing Your Profits
If you’d like to see your business making more profit, consider your manufacturing process. From manual work and time-stealing inefficiencies to dependency on third-party vendors and overseas deliveries, your production line just might be killing your bottom line:
- Outsourcing work because of capacity limitations.
- Performing manual operations with traditional tools.
- Transferring parts between machines to perform additional functions (e.g., sawing, trimming, drilling).
- Waiting on parts delayed from overseas.
Flip that approach with C.R. Onsrud American-Made CNC Machinery specially engineered for processing extruded and pultruded linear profiles.
Increase Your Shop’s Capacity: Process Light and Heavy Lengths up to 65′+
When you bring your production in house, you take control of your process time, material costs, the priority of projects, and ultimately, your profits.
From simple shapes to complex designs, the American-made 5-Axis X- and EX-Series mill, drill, tap, slot, and saw aluminum, plastic, and composite linear profile extrusions and pultrusions for lengths up to 65′+.
The heavy-duty steel construction of the base, columns, and gantry cut down on the vibrations typical of linear profile machining operations and can support heavily weighted materials. Be cautious of companies who import inferior frames, designed to fit into an overseas container, then bolt them together and call them “American Built.” Our machines are manufactured from fabrication to final assembly in Troutman, North Carolina. They are durable, reliable, and built to continuously operate under harsh industrial manufacturing conditions.
Don’t be held hostage to third-party vendors’ costs and time frames. Streamline your R&D to machining processes, easily launch new products, customize existing ones, and create reliably fitting components, accessories, and replacement parts — all while saving time and making your business more profitable.
Automate Manual Processes: Eliminate Measuring Errors and Produce Less Scrap
By reducing your dependency on manual operations and post-process work, you get reliable, consistently accurate results. This means less parts wind up in the scrap pile and more money stays in your pocket. You’ll also be making significantly more sellable parts in the same time frame.
With the unique automated clamping system option of the X- and EX-Series, you get effective work-holding specifically engineered for easy processing of extruded and pultruded linear profiles. All your parts come off the machine perfectly sized and install-ready, no matter how complex the design.
Tailor your CNC machine with additional automated systems to further reduce the chance of human error that can damage your raw materials or slow production. For example, devices can measure tool dimensions and automatically enter them into your machine.
With a CNC machine, you remove the obstacles that could be greatly eating into your profits — make parts, not scrap.
Use Time-Saving Processes: Single Setup and 2-in-1 Solutions
When time is money, you’re funding a considerable amount with no return on investment as production sits idle while you load or unload material, take parts out of their work-hold for refixturing, or transfer parts to different machines.
With 5-axis capability, all your milling, drilling, sawing, slotting, and tapping operations take place in a single setup, so your parts come off the machine perfectly sized and install-ready, no matter how complex the design.
Plus, the long travel length of the X- and EX-Series enable operators to safely load and unload parts while the machine continuously processes uninterrupted, a technique called pendulum processing. The long travel can also be used to saw components to a finished size from a long raw material length.
To get even more productivity, add a second gantry. This gives you twice as much output without the expense of purchasing a second machine:
- Drill, mill, tap, slot, and saw twice as many parts in the same time frame.
- Perform simultaneous or independent operations for efficient workflow.
- Alternate between the spindles to perform multiple step operations on a single part.
- Park one gantry and use the other to machine large parts end-to-end.
Advanced time-saving technologies enable you to produce parts at a fraction of the price, so you get the most out of your investment.
Avoid Overseas Delivery Delays: You Could Be Losing Over 18% of Your Profits
Overseas deliveries are experiencing tremendous delays. Parts need to be fully tracked — down to the individual ball bearings — to ensure proper tariff allocation. As ships wait to clear customs, ports become more congested, leading to further delays.
If your production is sitting idle while you wait, the costs can have a devastating toll on your profits and the future of your business.
These delays are costing you through:
- Loss in revenue
- Unproductive or underproductive employees
- Missed deadlines
- Damage to customer relationships
- Lost business opportunities
- Damage to your reputation
- Overall frustration
Here is a hypothetical case of the cost of a delivery delay based on trailer manufacturing averages:
| LABOR COSTS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # of Employees affected by downtime | Average employee wage | Duration of outage (in hours) | Average % of lost productivity | Total Labor Cost |
| 90 | $22 | 40 | 60% | $47,520 |
| LOST REVENUE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Annual Revenue | Hours per day open for business | Days per year open for business | % of lost business that is irrecoverable (can't delay order or reschedule jobs, etc.) | Total Lost Revenue |
| $6,500,000 | 8 | 249 | 40% | $52,208 |
| TOTALS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor Cost | Lost Revenue | Total Downtime Cost | Hourly Downtime Cost | Average Monthly Cost in Downtime | Average Monthly Cost in Downtime |
| $47,520 | $52,208 | $99,728 | $2,493 | $99,728 | $1,196,746 |
That’s 18.4% Unrecouped Costs |
C.R. Onsrud is a manufacturer, not an importer of machines. We produce and maintain a large, readily available inventory of parts to ensure prompt service and minimal downtime. Not only have our machines proven to last longer between major services, but you also have a team of U.S.-based technicians and engineers who are fully prepared to help you when you need them.
- Onsrud trained experts
- Available 24/7
- Next day parts availability
- Remote & onsite support
If your machine isn’t up and running, it isn’t making you money …and if it’s not making you money, it’s the wrong machine or a costly paperweight.
The Solution is Simple. Buy American.
Contact C.R. Onsrud Today. Let’s talk about your production goals and analyze your ROI.
Additional resources:
Extrusion processing machinery: https://cronsrud.com/x-series/ and https://cronsrud.com/ex-series/
YouTube videos: See these machines in action.
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