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What could be the reason behind clients' reluctance to hire remote CNC programmers?
"What could be the reason behind clients' reluctance to hire remote CNC programmers? In my view, the primary issue lies in the remote programmer's lack of familiarity with the factory's facilities and equipment, such as tooling, jigs, fixtures, and the appropriate feed and speed settings required for the machines.
I mean if you bought a Machine for thousands of dollars you are going to be very reluctant to let anyone cause damage to it, usally what owners tend to do is they are going to be hiring a machinist with good programming cabablitiets on site, but even then those machinists would run the machines as slow as possible to avoid any blame if to fall on them something went wrong going with 0.1mm depth of cut and so on.
So when you come in with 10mm depth of cut and strange looking adaptive tool path, they are going to be skeptical about you, and when you run it they are going to be surprised of the results not realizing that the machine can run at least 10 times more efficent than they were running it.
It's hard to prove your skills as CNC Programmer because the results are not the G-Code that you present to the customer, but the actual finished part, so it's a lot of invesntment in tooling and stock material just to prove that you are as capable as you say.
CAD/CAM activity is for in site only. It's hard to achive a 100% working system, including post processing. You have to know the machine 1000%, bits, timing, defects etc. Even the avoiding of the blank matierial waste is another reason
