Your cut costs €500. With all the logistics, materials, work. Someone else does it for €300. Same specs. Same quality. Why? Because they have free capacity. Because they have a better discount on material. Because it doesn’t fit you right now, but it fits them. I Know That Feeling
Or the opposite - you have too much work and the machine can’t keep up. Both are problems. Both are killing you. I Know That Feeling In mechanical engineering, I’ve seen both. Productions where CNC machines run in two shifts, filled to the end. Every day on edge.
Call from your welder. “Listen, that order… we won’t make it by Friday. We have too much work.” Knot in your stomach. Two days ago you promised the customer the construction would be ready. Now this. I Know That Feeling I worked in mechanical engineering myself. I know what