flipped over or not. The more ops (flip of the part), the more expensive the part because it incurs substantial set-up and load/unload time.

Each operation (flip of the part) has set-up time, machine time, time to load/unload tools, time to load/unload parts, and time to create the NC program for each operation. If a part has only 1 operation, then parts only have to be loaded/unloaded once. If it has 5 operations, then load/unload time is significant.

The low-hanging fruit is minimizing the number of operations (flip of the part)

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