CNC Work Slowing Down Everywhere?

[Daniel M]

Just curious how the industry is with other folks. I could just read the paper but wanted to hear it from the source. In the Seattle area things have slowed quite a bit.

 

Thanks for any replies.

 

Daniel

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Depends on the sector. A LOT of shops I know have more than they know what to do with. But this is high-end stuff. 4-Axis type MINIMUM, not VMC 4-Axis either. Lot's of 5-axis work out there. But that's SoCal.

[Toby-Axis]

Long Island NY area growing rapidly. Seems that there has been a big change in the wind for the last 6 to 8 months.

[mikechvz]

not slowing down at all here in San Antonio, TX

[Greg_J]

Not slow in Red Deer Alberta Canada, Do you need a job?

[Ployd]

Busy at our shop with composites. Just picked up a few weeks ago.

 

Daniel M, did you pick up at all from the Boeing strike?

[Kevangel]

In dayton Ohio, there was only one columm of "skilled want ads" as oppossed to 4 last june(sunday paper), but shops are still busy...people are concerned about 6 months from now for obvious reason (only 2 machining ads...6 is OK and 12 ads means shops are Loaded and prices are GOOD)

[Columbo™]

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Long Island NY area growing rapidly. Seems that there has been a big change in the wind for the last 6 to 8 months.

 

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Depends on what type of work........I know in the aerospace industry we are very SLOW....and I am on ling island

[rdshear]

Things have slowed down tremendously here... People getting cut back to 4 day weeks. Steel producers are our biggest customers and when they hurt ... we hurt.

[keith mc.]

here in Toronto Canada we're not slow ,were dead. nothing for my 3 mills in the last week or so. The owner says it doesn't look promising. We are a tool and die shop so that explanes alot. I've kept myself busy making so odds and ends for a few friends that make costom trikes but not enough to stay busy for 8 hours. Hope we get something soon.

[cadman2112]

There seems to be little in between.

 

Shops that run high end equipment and jobs are for the most part busy.

 

Shop that are for lack of a better term, bottom feeding on stuff most shop can do are having a very hard time. Unless of course you managed to find a niche.

 

Medical work seems to be doing well for the most part.

 

It seems like shops are either booked out for 2 years or wondering if they will still be in business in 3 months. Not alot of in-between.

 

JM2C

[MLS]

The Boeing strike hurt locally here as suppliers were forced to cut back production. Spirit went on 3 day work weeks, lots of small shop "layed off" I.E. used the opportunity to clean up house a little. Other shops cut hours, a few cut overtime. Now Cessna and Hawker-Beechcraft are talking about layoffs.

 

We are still doing well though, although overtime is going to be monitored more closely.

[Guest]

they got rid of 4 people yesterday.no overtime for anyone.learned a good lesson yesterday that there are some cut throat backstabbin people here.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

40 hrs a week, Our Production is running at 25% capacity I heard...

 

Blessed to have a job.

[Zoober]

We are busier than ever. Even with the Boeing strike. Mostly aero thin wall Ti castings. 5ax stuff nobody else can or wants to do. But even our Boeing stuff didn't slow too much except the commercial side.

Any good 5axis guys (programmers and machinists) want a job in Salem? Shoot me a line.

[TR Mfg.]

Things are good here. It pays to be diversified. We are lucky and have customers in a lot of different industries and have done 0% automotive.

[Murray Mold]

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they got rid of 4 people yesterday.no overtime for anyone.learned a good lesson yesterday that there are some cut throat backstabbin people here.

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Sorry to hear that Del,

We went from 65 hours down to 45 and there are a few guys working 50 or more. I got burned out working 65 hours all summer so I'm doing my 45 and goin home for now.

[robk]

We are very busy here with existing work. The guys on the floor are working @ least 10 hrs. + Saturdays. I am crazy busy making programs for new jobs. We do a lot of multi axis work on hi-temp alloys (pretty large in size), so a lot of places don't even want to touch this kind of work.

[mikeqes]

We make tools,gages and fixtures for Pratt, Sikorsky and the like. and we were told to expect to be busy

for at least the next 6 months.

[Kevangel]

Black oxider told me today they are up and down and shops in Dayton are starting to lay off...so I won't complain about long busy month ahead..

[Thee Rickster ™]

In London Ontario Canada, most shops are dead too.

We are laging in CNC casting machining production but our mold shop is fairly steady to busy.

 

We do a lot of prototyping and our method is

relatively inexpensive to prototype All-356 and Za-12 casting in. So we get sporadically swamped a few times a year

 

I have a few buddies off work due to cut backs

[mgsanchez]

We are really busy here with 5x work. We have a three year backlog of work. Local shops are holding up well with the exception of Eclipse Aviation which is having financial problems.

 

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[mig]

We are getting slow here in Vancouver .

Doing molds , dies and other precise stuff

[Toby-Axis]

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Columbo

 

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Depends on what type of work........I know in the aerospace industry we are very SLOW....and I am on ling island

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Your in Freeport,

As far as I know LI Aerospace is a Roller Coaster in this area. Niche is where it's at here, or deep Roots.

 

You have mail!

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

We do all multi axis areospace work in Pennsylvania and we are swamped. We have the option to work as much overtime as we want. It's been that way for the last two years and will most likely coninue. We just purchased two more machines and have plans for a third.