I'm hoping to close a deal on a small manufacturing company within the next month. I'm moving the company from a very small isolated town that didn't have any supporting manufacturing business near it. Consequently, they purchased new in 2014 Haas TM1 and TL1 CNC mill/lathes that are used one month a year. I know one of the tasks for the mill is ridiculously simple. It drills 6 parallel holes in a 1" thick plastic block. I have excellent CNC experts locally so I'm not worried about setting them up properly. Our local community college has a two year machinist program that uses the same Haas TM1. They have 6 of them. I am making an assumption that I can continue to use these machines to produce the existing designs with an unskilled person loading it and pressing the green button. I'm also making an assumption that an experienced CNC person can give us guidelines and recommendations about maintenance, wear, tooling, etc. It makes more sense to sell the CNC's and have someone else make the parts but due to loan structuring it doesn't benefit the company to sell them.
Once the shop has been moved and is comfortably in Production mode, I'll hire someone to run it so we can offer machining services to other business. Though this won't be the only CNC shop in town, it will be the only one that has room to accept work.
The Haas TM1 screen says 1416 hrs power on time, 229 hrs cycle time, 108 hrs feed time.
Which brings me to the question - what are the guidelines for space around the CNC's? One limitation of the previous shop was a poor layout due to being in an inadequate building. I'm hoping to put the TM1 and TL1 and a 5x10 plasma table and a welding table in one end of a 40 x 60 shop so the other end has room for assembly. Steel will be in a rack on the side. Parts and inventory in a small room on the side of the shop. Thoughts and recommendations would be appreciated!