Parts Department

By Justin Brouillette & Jem Freeman

Justin Brouillette (Portland CNC) & Jem Freeman (Like Butter) discuss CNC machines, their product design and manufacturing businesses, and every kind of tool that they fancy.

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How many episodes does Parts Department have?

The podcast currently has 165 episodes available.

Parts Department episodes:

May 03, 20224 - Nice Biscuits!
A full array of topics from cutting 40,000 half-inch holes, Incentivizing Innovation, Quoting with Quotient, 5-Axis CNCs, NDAs, and the Default Diary.
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Both making "Pegs"
Incentivizing Innovation
Like Butter product development - Royalty to team member
Alexei Sayle clip on "Nice" - Dire Straits according to Alexei Sayle
Drilling 40 thousand 1/2" holes in birch ply?
Quoting with Quotient!
Growing Wood Parts
Feeds & Speeds are tough to acquire when starting out
Use the Onsrud Production Routing Guide PDF
NC Pocket's new 5-axis Alpha 4 (omg want)
NDAs
Balancing R&D vs Production - Jem works pre-production on R&D
Default Diary - Break down planned blocks with space between for flexibility; Dedicated quoting block linked with the business manager has been really productive.

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
48min
April 26, 20223 - The Pencil Sharpener
The Like Butter Pencil Sharpener genesis story is told, power chaos ensues at PDX CNC. CNC crashes, and good old fashioned Robot Talk.
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Justin's Power Fiasco
Jem is on the machines
Justin finding Jem's Instagram on this post

The Pencil Sharpener Genesis
4-axis, 5-spindle custom CNC machine
Pencil Sharpener makes Like Butter's KittaParts
See it in action
Laundromat_mfg - made Pencil Sharpener
Masso G3 Touch Controller

Like Butter Tiktok
PDXCNC Tiktok
Machine Tool Talk
Spanish Timber Turning Co - Intorex
Cameron and Trinity (LB's Routers)
Crashing Machines
Second spindles
Melbourne Kuka Robot with awesome end effectors
Loupe's Robot Chainsaw

Brass Pulls by DKL Custom Furniture
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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
48min
April 19, 20222 - Terrible on My End
The guys talk about LB's Lean Day, company culture, Freshdesk, Quotient, Fusion 360 Nesting, Justin's New Kaeser Compressor, and the YCM CF BIN file update.
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Garnica - Plywood
10 Bullets - Tom Sachs
Discipline of Do Easy by Gus Van Sant
LB Workshop Lean - once a month
Fastcap - 3S Every morning 30 minutes
Handoff from Quoting to Production
Descript - Screen capture software
Where do you host videos?
Freshdesk - Team Email and Articles
Portland CNC's Freshdesk - Use a Team Inbox?
Quotient Quoting
Paperless Parts
De-skill Quoting
Nesting - Fusion 360 - Compare function
Managing staff - Netflix culture deck, challenges, approach etc
Powerful - Patti McCord
Book Justin was thinking of: Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Business Coaching has been helpful for Jem, Justin is jealous.
Both are overwhelmed by owning a business
Justin’s new Kaeser Airtower 7.5c
YCM Mill - Run from MEM Card (Compact Flash) is working! (Video coming)

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
49min
April 12, 20221 - Jem and the Robots
Jem and Justin chat about custom job shop work vs products, their Airtable ERPs, Justin's brain-dead YCM mill, and consider Profit Sharing and more in the first episode.
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Jem: Custom jobs
Grasshopper for quoting, now Airtable
Link Index
Workflowy
Airtable - Overall view Technique Base
Single dump as records then filter with views
ERPs
PDXCNC Training courses
Job Shop Work and Challenges
Manufacturing Consulting / Product Development
Sales
Internal drive vs external input
Internal products are more predictable
External richness - Learn a process from a client's job
Time Tracking - Xero Projects
Quote vs Actual
Why are we time tracking? “How much time”
Open Book Management - open finances
Team Investment / Profit sharing?
Microphone Stand?
Jem's Quarterly Walk - “Review” 1 on 1
Jem Rebuilding Shopify Theme

SUPPORT THE SHOW
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Show Info
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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
47min
April 11, 20220 - Introducing - Parts Department
Parts Department is a discussion between Justin Brouillette of Portland CNC and Jem Freeman of Like Butter.
They talk CNC machines, their product design, and manufacturing businesses, and every kind of tool that they fancy.
Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or head to https://dept.parts
Show Info
Show Website
Contact Jem & Justin
Instagram | Tiktok | Facebook | Youtube

HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
1min

FAQs about Parts Department:

How many episodes does Parts Department have?

The podcast currently has 165 episodes available.

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