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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
Dental-CAM
Imes Icore 350i Pro+ loader bs Versamill 5x500L/ Arum 5x500L
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<blockquote data-quote="CoolHandLuke" data-source="post: 362362" data-attributes="member: 4850"><p>with a mill worth 100k, you have to make a product that will return that investment, as you are keenly aware, within a short timeframe</p><p></p><p>with 150k even more so</p><p></p><p>this is still why bars and partials are the profit kings of the dental cnc world. some charge 500$ per implant site for a bar (makes an AO5 kinda costly) and some upwards of 800</p><p></p><p>you do 3 bars and you made profit that month.</p><p></p><p>same math for crowns, if it can cost you 10$ in material and 15 minutes of time, then it costs 40$ per hour to run the mill to make crowns. as long as that gets you more than 4 crowns at 200$ each, you've come out ahead by a bit but not by much. times ten pucks overnight and now we're talking some real money. at that rate, you can take weekends off. take a few days of down time if something breaks. the profit is made.</p><p></p><p>does that make sense for a 1 man lab?</p><p></p><p>you tell me, you're the 1 man lab.</p><p></p><p>theres plenty of ROI calculators out there, they all need to know your volume of production, because without it you may as well owe a million, it wont get paid off. everything comes down to production.</p><p></p><p>hell, you can put in a million dollar mill and pay it off on a 3bars per day volume and pay yourself a measly 80k/yr as long as you can maintain consistent sales. key word, consistent.</p><p></p><p>so situational.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CoolHandLuke, post: 362362, member: 4850"] with a mill worth 100k, you have to make a product that will return that investment, as you are keenly aware, within a short timeframe with 150k even more so this is still why bars and partials are the profit kings of the dental cnc world. some charge 500$ per implant site for a bar (makes an AO5 kinda costly) and some upwards of 800 you do 3 bars and you made profit that month. same math for crowns, if it can cost you 10$ in material and 15 minutes of time, then it costs 40$ per hour to run the mill to make crowns. as long as that gets you more than 4 crowns at 200$ each, you've come out ahead by a bit but not by much. times ten pucks overnight and now we're talking some real money. at that rate, you can take weekends off. take a few days of down time if something breaks. the profit is made. does that make sense for a 1 man lab? you tell me, you're the 1 man lab. theres plenty of ROI calculators out there, they all need to know your volume of production, because without it you may as well owe a million, it wont get paid off. everything comes down to production. hell, you can put in a million dollar mill and pay it off on a 3bars per day volume and pay yourself a measly 80k/yr as long as you can maintain consistent sales. key word, consistent. so situational. [/QUOTE]
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