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Diffusion welcome.

Although our company that is usually remodeling a motorcycle, we spend a technique seriously and make a duralumin cutting ballpoint pen.
The name of the ballpoint pen “is MechaSEA”.

It has a clip and a grip and is confusing, but the story of the grip this time (place to have).

The grip is a shape that needs to be cut with a lathe and is gentle R.
It necessarily requires an NC lathe.
(If it is linear it can be made with a general-purpose lathe.)
But, my company only has a general-purpose lathe.
It is a little hard to buy an NC lathe.

The reasons are as follows.

Milling cutter has the machine called ROBODRILL of FANUC corporation.
It is cheap, but only the control panel is a miracle machine using good ones.
Since there are no such models on the lathe, I will have to buy a large NC lathe.
Furthermore, compared to scroll chuck, the power chuck is very expensive and hydraulic pressure is necessary.
So I judged that it was impossible to buy an NC lathe immediately, and to start a mass production in-house.
I decided to outsource.
But, when took the estimate, the cost was expensive and the cost price exceeds.
And, it is also painful to order a large amount.
The stock will be hundreds of thousands of yen.

So, I decided to design and manufacture a small lathe that only ballpoint pen can be made.
I at last will do professional work in the sixth year since my founding. (Production equipment production)

Ultimately, the production line for ball-point pens will produce the fastest lead time by arranging single-function machines.
If I buy an NC lathe or a lathe of a multifunctional machine, the lead time will inevitably increase because the machine takt becomes longer.
And the hand waiting time of the worker occurs.
Considering the future, I think that it is a good thought that the own company designs the special machine.

Araki F Machine seriously introduced technology and made it.
It’s all made with cutting of the aluminum.
It’s extremely mechanical ballpoint pen, MechaSEA.
Tap the image or jump to the sales page by clicking.↓↓↓

Old post share.
Diffusion welcome.

Although our company that is usually remodeling a motorcycle, we spend a technique seriously and make a duralumin cutting ballpoint pen.
The name of the ballpoint pen “is MechaSEA”.

The first of the trial product was completed the other day.
Because I can not publish the appearance yet for reasons related to intellectual property, I could not quite tell the image.
But, I was able to make things that I can finally show.
It is an exterior box.
I am considering adopting A2017 to the material of the box of the initial lot.

Size feeling is like this.

I tried putting a commercially available ballpoint pen in it.
When all the development work is over, MechaSEA is enshrined here.
At that time, everyone should be crying.

There is a edge on the under side, and it fits here with the lid.

There are reasons why I chose this material.
I reveal the reason.

Originally I thought that I would like to adopt paper boxes with many achievements at other companies.
But, when ordering foil stamping or elaborate processing, we have to order a certain quantity. (Order of thousands)
Together with the die cost, hundreds of thousands of yen to about 1 million yen costs money.
This is an unavoidable amount of money because other companies pay for it as well.
But, due to my experiences so far, various unexpected things will happens at the beginning of the release.

New products often come to think that I want to change the specifications when dozens of shipments are shipped.
・I want to change the design.
・ There was a problem. I want to take measures.
etc.
In that case, I can not do anything if I ordered a large quantity of boxes.
I spend hundreds of thousands of yen again, and I have to order from a mold.
We cannot collect the cost of the amount if we do not sell these several hundred ballpoint pens either.
When we spend money on inventory, the movement of the company stops.

Also, from my experience, it will take a certain period of time for products to be recognized in the world.
So at my company, I am taking a system that will not die at least for one year of next year, even if there is no profit with this pen.
It is really painful to hold inventory of boxes during that period.

We thought a lot.
If it’s made of metal, the price of one box is very high.
But, because it can be manufactured in-house at my company, there is no risk when looking at the total.
It was the opposite result to a normal company.
My company has many processing machines.
And it is a special situation that developers, designers, person of processing, production engineers are the same person.
So it is necessary for me to think one by one without fitting it in general theory.
As long as there is no problem, I will continue development with made of metal
as it is.
And I would like to use a metal box for the first few months only.
I do not know what will happen yet.

Araki F Machine seriously introduced technology and made it.
It’s all made with cutting of the aluminum.
It’s extremely mechanical ballpoint pen, MechaSEA.
Tap the image or jump to the sales page by clicking.↓↓↓