Re: Survey: Ratio of Machines per Programmer

On Jun 30, 5:36 pm, "Gary H. Lucas" <gary.lu...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"BottleBob" <bottl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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To All:

I was just curious as to how many machines are usually programmed per
programmer at a time, in your shop. Also what type of work is
customarily done.

[ ] Number of machines programmed per programmer.

Type of work done.

Comments:

--
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob

Bob,
I got 'transferred' once because the owner said I wasn't fast enough
programming for 2 VMCs. I did it all manually because the parts were all 50
year old drawings on paper, no models. The funny part about it was that
they had me writing 4 times as many programs as we actually ran in the
machines, because we didn't have enough machines! But they divided my hours
by the number of parts run and decided I was too slow.

My replacement came in dragging his own desktop computer with Mastercam. He
lasted two months. The guys were laughing because he never put out a
program that actually used the tool changer!

Gary H. Lucas



Things like this help me appreciate working for someone who has done
what I'm doing.

Later,

Charlie

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