Hi all,
My name is John. I'm an accountant at a group of box makers. I build and maintain the machines for all of our locations. Through 20 years of watching I can tell you how fast labels are made, how fast thermoform parts can be made and certainly how fast any box can be made. One of our locations is losing a supplier so they have a Kimla on the water and they have also have a Baileigh Milling Machine coming in. Our thermoformer uses several CNC machines for cutting the aluminum molds or renboard but they are doing pretty standard stuff. This new Kimla is for cutting and routing out foam both closed and open cell. With foam you can't die cut more than 2 inches or you get concavity. So we are going to take a plank of 84x48x4 2lb density foam and cut it into 75 pieces and route out the center of each piece down to 3 inches. I have to figure out how many inches per minute this Kimla can cut. I watched all the videos (in a foreign language) but I could not find how fast this thing will go. I'm assuming their vacuum transfer will hold open cell foam in place. Any suggestions I should use as a starting point would be greatly appreciated. I then have to translate inches per hour into thousand pieces per hour as that is the only way box making software works. Thanks for any suggestions and I already got some good ideas from reading through your forums. John