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Serious question, why do we all baby our mills and let our workpiece setups go to crap?
I ran the same Haas VF-2 for three months with a sloppy vise and shimmed parallels, and my scrap rate sat at 6 percent. After I finally spent two hours dialing in the vise on a granite plate and switched to a torque wrench on the bolts, it fell to under 1 percent in the next two weeks. Everyone in my shop fusses over spindle warmup and coolant mix but treats clamping like it's whatever. Anyone else see their numbers change that much from just fixing the setup side?
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terry_mitchell27d ago
Taking this further, the clamping side is really just the start of it. Once your vise is dialed in and repeatable, you can actually trust your offsets, which means you stop chasing your tail every time you swap parts. That confidence lets you push feeds and speeds instead of backing off to play it safe, and that is where cycle time and tool life gains come from too. The shops I have seen that live and die by setup sheets and torque specs do not just have lower scrap, they run faster because nobody is second guessing the setup. It all snowballs once you treat workholding like the foundation it is instead of an afterthought.
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