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← BLOG · GENERAL MACHINING · 2026-07-19 · 4 MIN READ

Busy is not a business model: profit control for job shops

One-offs, repairs, short runs — general machining is where shops stay busy and quietly lose money. Three controls fix it.

PRICE FROM A ROUTING, EVEN FOR ONE PART
A one-off still gets operations, material at last-paid, and overhead — thirty seconds of estimator time with CAD assist. Gut pricing is how repair work becomes charity.

COST WHILE THE CHIPS FLY
The traveler accrues actual labor and material against the estimate in real time. At op 30 you know the job is 10% under or 20% over — and on a short run, knowing today is the whole game.

GIVE EVERY SCRAP A CAUSE
Machine, employee, cause, cost — logged at the moment of scrap. Roll it up monthly and 'we scrap too much' becomes a ranked list of fixable causes with dollar signs.

LET THE BARCODE DO THE TYPING

Traveler scans clock operations; bin scans issue material; the time card builds itself. Data quality goes up precisely because nobody is doing data entry.

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