We have decided to change the way we distribute kits. Due to customer’s concerns with the amount of time it takes us to get kits out, we will be moving to a stocking model for all kits effective 9/8/2012. All kits will ship within 48 hours of the order being received. If we do not […]
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It’s been a while since we’ve done this and we have several new products that have been launched. We have updated our anti-backlash nuts for leadscrews. We have 5-Start and Single Start versions available. These nuts address some of the issues that we had with the previous leadnuts. The unique spring mechanism on the nuts provides […]
This year we are doing a sale for Labor Day. We are will be running the sale a Labor Day sale from the 9/1 through 9/8. The sale will be the following: $100 off of the FLA100 and FLA400 kits. $150 off of the FLA200 and FLA500 kits. $200 off of the FLA300 kit. $50 off […]
Well, we’ve finally started producing assembly instructions for the kits. I have shot Z-Axis assembly instruction videos that will help you assemble the Z-Axis on your kit. These instructions are good for all of the kits we sell and will appear on the kit pages. As always, we appreciate feedback so please contact us and […]
We are using FastCap’s ChopShop saw hood to save up clean up time at the miter saw station. The hood has saved us 10-15 minutes each day in clean up time and allows us to easily separate aluminum chips for recycling. In addition, the hood solved a minor safety problem; anyone walking behind the miter saw when […]
For those thinking about buying a kit, we will be having a Black Friday sale again this year! $200 off any kit and $75 off all electronics kits. The sale will start at Midnight the Friday after Thanksgiving and go through Monday. All domestic orders that come in before December 16th, 2011 will be shipped […]
Today we applied lean at home. We applied lean thinking to processing down tree limbs and because of the time we saved we applied 3S to a big outdoor canopy. The canopy now has a place and assembly was made easier.
On Friday, we went to a manufacturing method called one piece flow. With our shop being so small, processing batch kits was a bear but we did it because we thought it saved time. Boy were we wrong! For a 4’x4′ kit, we were right around 6-7 hours per kit. Not terribly bad, but not […]
Today we went back and examined our box cutting process. We eliminiated a bunch of processing time to our process of cutting boxes with one simple change…
Production is back up here at Fine Line Automation. Thank you all for your patientence as we bring things back up to speed. Waiting on leadnuts for 5 kits and 3 small orders. They will be here today (Thanks Ahren for overnighting them!) and everything will be out. You can see the massive pile up […]