How many machines do you program for?

[Oakprogrammer]

I was just curious on how many machine you all usually program? 

[JParis]

about 45, 27 HMC's, 10 VMC's, 5 MIll-Turns, 3-5AX's plus additive machine,. plus mold shop and tool room programming support

We're a crew of 3

[crazy^millman]

We have about 200 customers and between them over 1000 different machines.

[LA CAMmer]

I program three machines - two Haas (a VM2 and a VM3) and a Makino F5.  I am the only programmer.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

I program for all our mills: 6 VMCs, an HMC and a 3+2.

2 Operators setup and handle those machines

[Kyle F]

I program for a single 5axis in which I set-up and sometimes operate, and I'll help out other(gravy) programs when I have the time for something like 7-8 VMC's

[Aaron Eberhard]

Any that come through the door

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

1 dedicated to me ,  also an Makino F5 for electrodes mainly. 

So Two...our Prototrac ( floppy era ) died.. so it was Three

[#Rekd™]

Some days too many and some days not enough!!!!! Programming, designing and setup/ operating. 

[Jake L]

Used to be 5 of us programming for about 15 3-axis VMC, 7 4-axis HMC,  6 5-axis. 

Since then we've added some machines and we're up to 8 mill programmers.

Now a days I personally do a mix of process improvement and new parts. Whatever the boss thinks we can/should be making more money on hits my desk, it's a pretty cool gig.

[AHarrison1]

On a day to day basis a couple of VMC, Haas and Fadals ( apparently we got the Fadals when Noah auctioned off his boat building shop)

and a duel spindle lathe.

Occasionally I will lend a programming hand to Router, Waterjet, Laser and 5 axis (not full 5 axis but a lot of 3+2 stuff)

[StevenM]

Essentially 1 HMC, 1 VMC, 1 5 axis mill, and 2 wire EDMs. I mostly program tooling for form dies and stuff of that nature.

We have 2 other mills but they generally just run older production programs, occasionally new production parts will come through on them.

Also have 4 lathes but I have only made around 10-15 programs for them in the 3 years I have been programming.

 

[Newbeeee™]

Was....11x with 3x different languages mixing between 2ax lathes and 4ax mills.

And ditto #Rekd™  Somedays were gravy with the vast majority of repeat work and then the phone would ring. Usually, on a Friday morning....

[Johnward Holmeson]

Right now just one 3 axis VMC that I'm in front of all day.  How the current shop is, you are the programmer, the setup, and the operator.  Previously at another job several 4 axis VMCs, a few 3 axis VMCs, a 2 axis lathe, and two wire EDMS.

[TFarrell9]

I work for a job shop where I'm the only programmer (6 machinists).

1 vmc

1 hmc

1 3-axis lathe

1 3-axis vtc

2 hbm's

1 retro-fit planer, finally being replaced by a bridge mill with RAH in a couple months.

[The Chipmaker]

 I program for a 5 axis DMG, 2 Kuraki horizontal mills and 2 Mazak integrex's. I also control all tooling and outside vending. 

[Corey Hampshire]

On a consistent basis, I personally support 5 horizontals, 2 lathes, 1 mill turn, 4-4 axis vertical mills, 5-3 axis vertical mills. There is something like 45 machines in here with controllers on them and I have pretty well poked the buttons on them all at one point or another. There are 4 of us programmers here and we split the work into cells, so each person has there own area they support. All different controllers too, Fanuc, Mazak, Siemens, Heidenhain, Makino, Haas and Landis (grinders). It's one of the things that keeps this job fun, is it's always different day to day. Someone always has a problem to solve.

[gcode]

We've got 57 machines between 3 building.

Its a mix of 2X lathes, VMC.s VTL's, 3 +2 HBM's, two 5X lathes, two 5X gantries and 2 big Okuma 5X HMC's

Some of it's pretty new, and some of the big VTL, were built in the 70's and are on their 3rd retrofit.

[gms1]

20+ a combination of hmc, vmc, lathe and mill-turn. Fanuc, Haas and Tosnuc controls. A couple guys here can write code but I do the vast majority of it.

[CEMENTHEAD]

24 CNC Lathes, 5 VTLs, 25 HMCs, 28 VMC's, 3 Trunion full 5axis, 5 Wires, 2 Protos, 1 mill-turn full 5axis, 1 KTR-1200 full 6axis.

7 mill programmers, 3 Lathe programmers.  

[Tim Johnson]

The week after Thanksgiving I'll be training to program and run a Okuma MA-8000H horizontal. That will bring me to 10 HMC's, 1mill-turn and training for our second mill-turn.

[SlaveCam]

Not enough

[motor-vater]

IM THE MACHINE NOW!

[motor-vater]

19 machines give or take

8 - 3 axis mostly with rotary's

5 - horizontals

6 - 5 axis

All Mills All the time

We have lathes to but I got a guy for that