How is your digital/Milling dept Setup?

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I am looking at moving and wanted to get ideas of how to setup more efficiently.

We have approx 5 employees and about 7 milling machines and a few printers.

I am really trying to establish an open concept environment with mills/printers on side and "design/scan stations" on the other.

What is working for you?


Any suggestions or pics would be awesome.

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I would suggest the Printers be clear of the Mills preferably in another Room. Zr dust is a Killer and a Pain when the times comes a printer goes down cause of it. Everything in one room just sounds like a lot. Break it up Scan/Design on one room rills in another then printers and maybe sintering ovens in one. But Open concept will work but you still need some separation between the areas. I know mills and scan/design in one room would drive me bananas.

Put the mills near the Compressor with a dryer so you cut down on plumbing along with maybe a central van with 24v suction valves to open up section to each mill once they start. Do you have a layout of the floor plan of the future place or not yet?
 
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Approximately? About?:p
 
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Techy, can you explain the job responsibilities of your 5 employees? how many scan, design, finish, layer..etc?
 
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7 mills and 5 employees? How many people are running the CAD/CAM?
 
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Not that hard if you set up 4 units in each mill. roughly 45-60 min of mill time each mill start one move on to the other and so on all day long. One guy should be doable IF he knows his stuff. Set up cam on cam PC then import cnc file into each mill. There was two guys at Argen when i went for advanced training, they were handling 28 roland dax-50's at the time on Delcam.
 
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CAD and CAM are two separate departments. And should always be two separate departments
 
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I knew i would get a few suggestions...

We have two people scanning/two designing
We have one person on cam
and usually one cutting out pucks and staining all day
floater stain/glaze-support-phone calls etc

Sevan I appreciate your advice.

We do not stack porcelain....we only work with labs.

At what point did you guys invest in a second Cam CPU?
Do you guys mill overnight?
 
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its just me handling 2 scanners, 3 printers, 3 mills. one design terminal, and one cam terminal. occasionally our denture dept uses their own person with their own scanner and design terminal, but i still manage their printing.
 
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How many units are you able to handle start to finish in one day?
That's very impressive, want a job
 
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my most productive day was 29 cases (all singles) start to finish within my normal 8-5 schedule. various styles from zirconia to pfm to gold.

no i don't want a job in the usa. in canada we'll talk in private but not in the usa.
 
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I am in Canada!
Streamline Dental
lol
 
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i used to live close to there. send me a pm if you were serious before.
 
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I knew i would get a few suggestions...

We have two people scanning/two designing
We have one person on cam
and usually one cutting out pucks and staining all day
floater stain/glaze-support-phone calls etc

Sevan I appreciate your advice.

We do not stack porcelain....we only work with labs.

At what point did you guys invest in a second Cam CPU?
Do you guys mill overnight?
We run vhf mills, s 4sxis send a 5axis. Each gave their own pc and share a database of stl files and blanks. So when we got the second mill came the second cam pc
But for your case if you're camming with sum3d or hyperdent one good pc should enough if the Cam tech is fast at setting up cams. Over night milling are usually large span bridges and or left over units that will be too much for the next day AM milling.

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its just me handling 2 scanners, 3 printers, 3 mills. one design terminal, and one cam terminal. occasionally our denture dept uses their own person with their own scanner and design terminal, but i still manage their printing.
Beast!

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