Jim Belosic (SendCutSend)

@noneundersun @parthingle_x Not until our foundry is provisioned

@jimbelosic @parthingle_x Is there "casting grade" scrap available from Banana Metals?

If your attitude toward problem solving is something like this DM me

@boxcardavid She’ll buff right out

Crumple zones

@parthingle_x I can hook you up with a lot of scrap 6061

@SCH_Clay Did it work?

lmao just had a dream on how I could laser cut the big part instead of mill it Ain't no way it works but if it does I just shaved like 10% off production cost + I won't have to deal with this giant heavy fuckass part not being flat. I can't run my laser at night because the exhaust fan is super loud and vents outside but you bet your ass I'm firing it up at 7:00AM tomorrow

In this episode, Zane and I discuss metal blocks

@EdwardMehr @sendcutsend Looks like the old robo-sign needs fresh coat of paint! Good to see you Ed, looking forward to seeing your shop

This week I got to see @sendcutsend operations in person and honestly I was surprised by what I saw. It was a home grown version of the Toyota Production System in action, which is the best kind. Toyota has been teaching us TPS as both a customer and a pattern for how to scale manufacturing, but seeing so much of it truly alive and feeling natural inside a high mix American shop was rare. Haven’t seen much of this in the US. @jimbelosic was generous enough to give me and our VP of Factory Deployment a tour as we ramp our new line to build 30 Robocraftsman a year. We learned a lot. You could see TPS principles everywhere. Kaizen in the obsession over every tiny improvement. Like Jim brought packaging concepts from the food industry that improved both quality and customer experience. JIT in the almost uncomfortable lack of inventory :) Jidoka in the intelligent use of automation where humans are amplified, not sidelined. But honestly the most impressive part was ningensei soncho during his gemba walks. Respect for people. Jim has real presence on the floor and the culture reflects it. A lot of factories talk about “lean.” Very few actually live it, especially in high mix manufacturing. Jim and team will go much further than folks imagine. We walked away with pages of ideas for how we build and scale Robocraftsman. Thanks again for the hospitality.

@boxcardavid Hell ya

@rocketgobrrrrr We have red and blue. I will mix em together and see what happens

scs not doing purple anodization is so sad

@Aldo_Aurelius Reno Nevada. 30 minutes from Lake Tahoe

@jimbelosic Any openings for a remote, Gen X, curmudgeony but enthusiastic, OG SCS user, design engineer with decades of mechanical tribal knowledge and a fancy piece of paper that's says BSME.

My recruiters need more recruiters so that we can do more recruiting Looking for a badass senior recruiter to help us hire the next 500 people. $90-$120k. Remote okay (USA only) or come work at HQ. Link in comments

Picking up speed. 32 this month so far

@Brewlandia Agreed! Our production staff recruiters are on-site. For specialized roles and remote roles, we can use remote recruiters. It’s still good for them to travel often and meet the team they are building

@jimbelosic 20+ year mfg recruiting leader here. 100% admire what you're doing & best of luck! Make sure to have some of your recruiters hybrid from the plants. Meeting w/ hiring mgrs in the plants, touring candidates & sitting in interviews in the plants, etc. 10x better in mfg than remote

@Darth_Villar Yes but they are a pain to source and cut and then people wonder why they are expensive

@jimbelosic I apologize for this being off topic, but have you considered offering composite honeycomb materials?

@brendanchatt Just bring like 10 people to the interview and say that you recruited them already

@jimbelosic What if I'm not a recruiter, yet

@usb_type_d All current jobs are listed here, but this list will be expanding rapidly - recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/job…

@jimbelosic I'm not a recruiter but if you need engineers y'all would be a fun company to work for!

@irunoncaffeine Internal plus contractors when needed

@jimbelosic Out of curiosity how do you guys handle IT across your locations? Internal team or large MSP partner?

@83dollaroring I need to make an energy drink

Red Bull Is Locked The Fuck In. They sponsored our rocket club in undergrad and now they just send crates of that shit to the local music scene. we get free red bull at every basement show now

@MaxWithNanos @c0nst It never left. We sprinkle it around

@c0nst @jimbelosic bring back the ray gun

this guy might actually have a heart attack if he saw SCS in 2019 i still remember that vividly: