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Built my lab. Got acquired. Building another, but then what?
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<blockquote data-quote="CoolHandLuke" data-source="post: 299311" data-attributes="member: 4850"><p>there are several ways to skewer this pig and each of them have as much to do with the CAM program as the machine this CAM is servicing.</p><p></p><p>for example, should you be in the business of providing custom abutments, you might also be interested in milling custom interfaces to service older clients or do business with people in countries you might not be so familar with on an economic level. for example lets assume you want to mill abutments for Syrian or Turkish or Greek customers, who use implants that can't be typed out on a QWERTY keyboard. quickly you find out this might sound like a niche market, but this is real life for literally thousands of people and it is a market that demands attention.</p><p></p><p>in such a case you would want to mill from Rod titanium ti6-al4, drill your own blanks, manufacture your own scan bodies and speak with renishaw about a nice ruby touch probe scanner. this level of precision will remand contact scanning.</p><p></p><p>you will then probably like very much to have a mill-turn machine such as a Willemin Mackodel. and you might want an Open license CAM program to write your own CNC sequences to turn abutments, and mill banks. CAm such as WorkNC will separate the interface milling from the abutment milling, allowing you greater flexibility in manufacture of components, as you will be able to modify each separately, to tighten tolerances and manufacture components in batches.</p><p></p><p>you may also look to 3d print - turn. for this for example you would design an abutment, but print a large ti cylinder, then simply clean up the interface with finishing tools and then mill the abutment. this value-add for you is adding half the cost.</p><p></p><p>overall startup will be in the 300-500k range for the equipment alone. the QC and CNC techs likely 6 figure salary each.</p><p></p><p>as to a mobile lab, RKM is quite proud to call a Trios all by itself a mobile lab, because each item can be sent to a place like Argen for manufacture and then shipped back in its finished state. I beg to differ slightly. I'd rather a Medit i500 and a 3d printer in the back of a van. this mobile lab would be the sort of lab to drive to every tiny native territory from Chibougamau QC to Whitehorse making immediate dentures for a grossly underserviced Native American population who have no dental/denture service for hundreds of miles. a same day denture would literally save lives for those people, and wouldnt cost more than 200k to start up, employ 2 people for an ongoing cost of not more than 180k (CDN) in salaries, gas, and printer resin per year, notwithstanding some incumbent costs of tooling, Van, sterilization, and PPE. the Native population are for a large part heavy smokers, diabetics, and drinkers. it will not be pretty.</p><p></p><p>thanks for coming to my TED talk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CoolHandLuke, post: 299311, member: 4850"] there are several ways to skewer this pig and each of them have as much to do with the CAM program as the machine this CAM is servicing. for example, should you be in the business of providing custom abutments, you might also be interested in milling custom interfaces to service older clients or do business with people in countries you might not be so familar with on an economic level. for example lets assume you want to mill abutments for Syrian or Turkish or Greek customers, who use implants that can't be typed out on a QWERTY keyboard. quickly you find out this might sound like a niche market, but this is real life for literally thousands of people and it is a market that demands attention. in such a case you would want to mill from Rod titanium ti6-al4, drill your own blanks, manufacture your own scan bodies and speak with renishaw about a nice ruby touch probe scanner. this level of precision will remand contact scanning. you will then probably like very much to have a mill-turn machine such as a Willemin Mackodel. and you might want an Open license CAM program to write your own CNC sequences to turn abutments, and mill banks. CAm such as WorkNC will separate the interface milling from the abutment milling, allowing you greater flexibility in manufacture of components, as you will be able to modify each separately, to tighten tolerances and manufacture components in batches. you may also look to 3d print - turn. for this for example you would design an abutment, but print a large ti cylinder, then simply clean up the interface with finishing tools and then mill the abutment. this value-add for you is adding half the cost. overall startup will be in the 300-500k range for the equipment alone. the QC and CNC techs likely 6 figure salary each. as to a mobile lab, RKM is quite proud to call a Trios all by itself a mobile lab, because each item can be sent to a place like Argen for manufacture and then shipped back in its finished state. I beg to differ slightly. I'd rather a Medit i500 and a 3d printer in the back of a van. this mobile lab would be the sort of lab to drive to every tiny native territory from Chibougamau QC to Whitehorse making immediate dentures for a grossly underserviced Native American population who have no dental/denture service for hundreds of miles. a same day denture would literally save lives for those people, and wouldnt cost more than 200k to start up, employ 2 people for an ongoing cost of not more than 180k (CDN) in salaries, gas, and printer resin per year, notwithstanding some incumbent costs of tooling, Van, sterilization, and PPE. the Native population are for a large part heavy smokers, diabetics, and drinkers. it will not be pretty. thanks for coming to my TED talk. [/QUOTE]
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