Parts Department

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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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette

Portland, Oregon, USA

PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links

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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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Justin Brouillette

Portland, Oregon, USA

PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links

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

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

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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

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.

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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