Hi Everyone,
The lease is up on the large building we have and I’m taking the opportunity (with the overall economy) to cut down on overhead and refocus on product development / customer service and quality control.
We’re moving from the small town of Green Cove Springs back into Jacksonville after five years at the old Navy base industrial park, where we enjoyed having the use of the runways.
In the last two weeks of the month, I’ll be hard to reach (but not impossible) and emails will be a few hours or a day delayed. The rest of the staff will still be carrying on as usual, though may get roped into helping move things. So, parts and orders will still be going out during this time.
I look at this as a good opportunity. Five years ago, when I moved into a larger place, I took on having up to eight employees, a full machine shop and a ton of work. What I didn’t expect was the time it would take day-to-day to run it and manage everyone. It almost completely took away the time I had / needed to design and develop new items I had been thinking about. So, I’m regrouping and going back to the business model I had before I let it get big and hard to control, just me and a couple employees (2) doing specialty work. I’m selling off the larger heavy equipment that was purchased to manufacture parts and going back to using job shops again. I liked having the ability to manufacture all the parts in house and it does help with part costs, but ended up costing me more time, which didn’t really work out so well (not to mention the costs when a machine goes down). Now, most of the production machining will go out to job shops and we’ll make small parts / assemble / weld and do minor fabrication in house.
The next couple weeks will be hectic around here while I sell off extra items that aren’t needed to maintain the business (and items that are a pain to move, like a 15,000 lb Mazak 510C, 4,000lb lathe, 4,000 lb dyno, etc). As an FYI, I’ll be using a local dyno for tuning again.
My goal on the other side of the move is to get back to where I’m not so thinned out and can get more done again, instead of trying to manage people to do things the way I want them done and pulling my hair out when they don’t. Though I haven’t been on the board in the last few weeks, in the near future, I should have time again.
Effective October 20th, the new shop phone numbers are (904) 230-5422 and 230-5423.
The new fax number (available now) is (866)-927-8981. This information and new address will be posted on our website soon also (as soon as I can get to it).
Regards,
Sean
PS, keep an eye on ebay for some great garage sale items!
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/roeracing
The lease is up on the large building we have and I’m taking the opportunity (with the overall economy) to cut down on overhead and refocus on product development / customer service and quality control.
We’re moving from the small town of Green Cove Springs back into Jacksonville after five years at the old Navy base industrial park, where we enjoyed having the use of the runways.
In the last two weeks of the month, I’ll be hard to reach (but not impossible) and emails will be a few hours or a day delayed. The rest of the staff will still be carrying on as usual, though may get roped into helping move things. So, parts and orders will still be going out during this time.
I look at this as a good opportunity. Five years ago, when I moved into a larger place, I took on having up to eight employees, a full machine shop and a ton of work. What I didn’t expect was the time it would take day-to-day to run it and manage everyone. It almost completely took away the time I had / needed to design and develop new items I had been thinking about. So, I’m regrouping and going back to the business model I had before I let it get big and hard to control, just me and a couple employees (2) doing specialty work. I’m selling off the larger heavy equipment that was purchased to manufacture parts and going back to using job shops again. I liked having the ability to manufacture all the parts in house and it does help with part costs, but ended up costing me more time, which didn’t really work out so well (not to mention the costs when a machine goes down). Now, most of the production machining will go out to job shops and we’ll make small parts / assemble / weld and do minor fabrication in house.
The next couple weeks will be hectic around here while I sell off extra items that aren’t needed to maintain the business (and items that are a pain to move, like a 15,000 lb Mazak 510C, 4,000lb lathe, 4,000 lb dyno, etc). As an FYI, I’ll be using a local dyno for tuning again.
My goal on the other side of the move is to get back to where I’m not so thinned out and can get more done again, instead of trying to manage people to do things the way I want them done and pulling my hair out when they don’t. Though I haven’t been on the board in the last few weeks, in the near future, I should have time again.
Effective October 20th, the new shop phone numbers are (904) 230-5422 and 230-5423.
The new fax number (available now) is (866)-927-8981. This information and new address will be posted on our website soon also (as soon as I can get to it).
Regards,
Sean
PS, keep an eye on ebay for some great garage sale items!
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/roeracing
