My company bought this PAS software over a year ago and we never found time to use it. The training was for three days and the instructor could not speak English very well and was a software developer. He was all over the place with his training and very hard to follow. The original version had some very limited potential and was difficult at best to use. By the time all the features were labeled and made usable for PCDMIS you could have a complete program written in PCDMIS. Our QC dept is very busy as we are a fast paced job shop, so rather than spin our wheels with PAS we just put it on the back burner.
Now someone in management decided to hire someone to just write programs with PAS for our QC Department. We are supposed to get the latest versions of it and PAS is going to train the programmer remotely using go-to-meeting. But first,I have been tutoring him on how to write programs using PCDMIS. He has shadowed me now for almost two weeks and has tried to write a couple of simple programs in PCDMIS. Keep in mind he has never programmed CMM's before. In his defense he is a bright guy and a very nice person. Stay tuned for how this scenario plays out as there are some heavy internal politics at work in all this.
My company bought this PAS software over a year ago and we never found time to use it. The training was for three days and the instructor could not speak English very well and was a software developer. He was all over the place with his training and very hard to follow. The original version had some very limited potential and was difficult at best to use. By the time all the features were labeled and made usable for PCDMIS you could have a complete program written in PCDMIS. Our QC dept is very busy as we are a fast paced job shop, so rather than spin our wheels with PAS we just put it on the back burner.
Now someone in management decided to hire someone to just write programs with PAS for our QC Department. We are supposed to get the latest versions of it and PAS is going to train the programmer remotely using go-to-meeting. But first,I have been tutoring him on how to write programs using PCDMIS. He has shadowed me now for almost two weeks and has tried to write a couple of simple programs in PCDMIS. Keep in mind he has never programmed CMM's before. In his defense he is a bright guy and a very nice person. Stay tuned for how this scenario plays out as there are some heavy internal politics at work in all this.
