Power Trip

You know, I have seen more often, People on here going to great lengths and just, extra steps, on writing programs to keep others out of PC-DMIS and the programs. I think if you spent that effort teaching others, how it works, how it functions. Lets face it, the CMM is an instrument used for quality, If a person is in quality, do we hide Calipers, OD, ID mics, indicators, surface plates, blocks. I know there are people out there, who might think, That their job is threatened. Paranoid.

Then there are others who say, that's what the customer request, my hands are tied. Your customers are not at your place all the time, nor are you, what happens when something goes wrong, are you going to end your vacation and head back to fix it? are the customers going to come over and fix it? Last but not least, The power trip people, They have in their feeble little heads "I'm GOD, You will bow down to me and worship me, My intelligent level is superior to yours" The only thing I can say to those people is "S-h-i-t and fall back in it" Just my 2 cents for the day

This is what got me saying what I said. I always said there are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. Well I might have to revisit that saying.

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kingsld1 over 5 years ago

So...... We should allow anyone in quality to modify micrometers, calipers, blocks, gages, indicators to fit their understanding of how these things work?

The reason for the desire to lock up programs isn't entirely a power trip. It's to be able to say that the program is checking the same things in the same way every time. It is extremely easy to change a measurement routine so that it shows all the parts good or all the parts bad or to have alignments that have nothing in common with the way the part is assembled. It takes specialized training and experience to get a sound program working. With physical gages you need access to equipment to modify them and unauthorized changes are not terribly uncommon. I'm sure most people here have a horror story or two they could tell. Luckily most changes to physical gages are fairly simple to identify and track down. It's different when you have a 'software gage'. It's easy to write programs that make the same physical moves but have different alignments. It easily can take doing a line by line review to find intentional changes to a program that affect results. (Even worse for unintentional changes.)
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kingsld1 over 5 years ago

So...... We should allow anyone in quality to modify micrometers, calipers, blocks, gages, indicators to fit their understanding of how these things work?

The reason for the desire to lock up programs isn't entirely a power trip. It's to be able to say that the program is checking the same things in the same way every time. It is extremely easy to change a measurement routine so that it shows all the parts good or all the parts bad or to have alignments that have nothing in common with the way the part is assembled. It takes specialized training and experience to get a sound program working. With physical gages you need access to equipment to modify them and unauthorized changes are not terribly uncommon. I'm sure most people here have a horror story or two they could tell. Luckily most changes to physical gages are fairly simple to identify and track down. It's different when you have a 'software gage'. It's easy to write programs that make the same physical moves but have different alignments. It easily can take doing a line by line review to find intentional changes to a program that affect results. (Even worse for unintentional changes.)
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