5. You are a truck manufacturer and you have to drill through the wood
flooring and support structure to attach the boards. You want to do it
faster.
I would use a screw gun and trailer deck board screws. I've still got a
couple boxes left over from when I re-decked my Dad's flatbed. Hardest
part was finding decent #3 Phillips tips now that nobody seems to remember
AT&G anymore. You got an automatic screw feeder drill press with enough
swing and enough spindles to do it in one pass? That would be cool to
see.
To answer your question - yes. We've sold a few to big name truck mfg
companies... But unfortunately, I only have photos of the equipment and not
the actual set-up or in-use videos, etc. Most keep their exact method a
secret because you can imagine an efficient way of doing this saves them a
lot of money and makes them very competetive against their... Well...
competitors.
P.S. Yes, I do know most commercial rigs are through bolted.
Yes, Hardwood, sometimes abrasive like Ipe and structural steel or aluminum
underneath depending on the type of truck frame they use and the type of
hauling it's ultimately meant for.
CLIP
STOP IT. I don't need any more useless (to me) project ideas bouncing
around in my head. Joe, I'm sending you the bill from my shrink. (For
those who are inane enough to quote this to win an argument in the
future... That was dark humor, not a statement of personal mental
infirmity.)
LOL! You've got me laughing and thinking about whether you should be
designing these things at the same time.
To your question. I think that those people searching for you are only a
small portion of your potential market. Many don't even know to look for
you. I think you should be searching for them, and be prepared with real
world realistic numbers showing how they can save money on production with
some of your applications. Be prepared with prearranged financing and/or
lease purchase agreements too. A lot of companies don't have the cash
reserves to buy new equipment upfront no matter how much it will save them
down the road.
Most of the sales into industries such as this go through machine builders
or automation houses. Those folks may come to me initially, but they want
turn-key set-ups for their shops and thus eventually call someone who can do
that for them and say, "We want to put some of those there AutoDrills in our
shop to do this and that..."
We market to the machine builders and also to the end users.
If you can work out the numbers so you can walk into their shop and show
them how they can save money from the first period your equipment goes
on-line saving man hours compared to leasing or financing costs you can do
a lot more than just trying to position yourself first in the search
engines for the small percentage of people and shops who have excess cash
to invest in equipment AND are looking to spend it on your type of
equipment.
It'll cost me $500-1000 to walk into a shop in Nebraska or Illinois or
Washington State, etc... For that amount, I can reach somewhere around
200-3000 people with a pay-per-click ad on Google with a refined search
term... Plus my family will be happier that I'm home at night.
I enjoy customer visits, but I find that most are inefficnent use of my time
and resources when there are machine builders and distributors of my product
that live locally to them.
CLIP
That all having been said, I don't want to debate the merits of real visits
VS internet marketing too much here. It wasn't the original purpose of my
post and to be honest, I'm not smart enough to really speak to it at times.
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Joe Agro, Jr.
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