How's Business ???

[[Da...]]

Are you guys keeping busy?
We were reduced to 32 hours a week... Very slow here. We are a precision grinding service.

[[Da...]]

"is this thing on??"

[[Ke...]]

I don't work for a production facility, so my 2 cents probably don't matter. 🤣
I work on prototypes, benchmarking, and customer return analysis, so our work is always fluctuating.
I'll say that we definitely are not as busy as before the panini (what I call the pandemic.. sorry, not sorry). But I always have side projects & training to do, so no worries on my end.

[[Ün...]]

Our work has become very busy after the pandemic.
We work in the automotive industry. We closed the year 2023 with record production units. We started by investing in 5 new machines in 2024. Our production department tries to close orders by working on Sundays. I think we are trying to close the gap on the days we did not work during the pandemic period.

[[Lo...]]

Medical is booming, we are still 50+ hours a week. Its not bad or a small, family owned shop.

[[Ow...]]

Not as busy as last year but, keeping our head well above water.
John Deere, despite 10 Billion in profit last year, has laid off over a thousand people in the last few months in Iowa, Illinois and Michigan because they said sales were down 10% this year but, they're also moving a lot of production to two different plants being built in Mexico. Labor cost including retirement pensions and less government and EPA regulations strikes again. I know of two other companies doing the same thing.

[[DW...]]

Inspection Lab Programmer - Plenty of work.

[[Ya...]]

We are still Working 4 Days a Week Since January (sometimes less). 28hr/week..
It´s nice to have Fridays off.. and with Kurzarbeitgeld compensation i "only" loose ~200€ a Month..

we Developa and Produce Yarn Spinning systems.