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What is your working environment like? I'm currently at my 3rd CMM job and had very different settings for each of them.

My first CMM job was in a high volume manufacturing environment. I worked in a small climate controlled box in the middle of a large machine shop. It was the customary fishbowl setting with lots of windows in the box for everyone to watch me work. The box was just a little too small for all the work that went through it, so it was always a mess. It wasn't the most comfortable setting, but on hot summer days I sure preferred it to being on the shop floor (no AC).

My second CMM job was in a mold manufacturing shop. I worked at two CMMs side by side right on the shop floor. It was a pretty clean shop with lots of ventilation on the machines, so I didn't have any problems with the air bearings getting gummed up or anything like that. All the machines near me were doing finishing ops like grinding and EDMing so it wasn't too noisy. It was an ok setting. The whole shop was climate controlled so that was quite nice.

Now I work at a company that makes various aerospace parts. I do most of my work at a desk in a large open office. There is a CMM in the room adjacent to me and two other CMMs in a separate building. It is nice to work at a desk in an office, but the open office setting isn't always great for concentrating. Also, I'm an introvert, so I'd be happiest hidden away in a darkened corner. It can sometimes be a pain to work a whole building away from two of the CMMs I work with, especially when it is snowing in the winter, but for the most part it is a pretty sweet arrangement.

How about y'all?
What is your work area like?
Do you have any past settings you loved or hated?
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  • Started in a fishbowl in the center of a Caterpillar factory. Got to watch the Cat employees stand there goofing off for an hour at a time. PC DMIS. HAD TO DO GAGES

    Worked in an aerospace machine shop with a tiny, packed QC area. Learned the ways of a McGyver inspector. PC DMIS. HAD TO DO GAGES

    Worked in a new, pristine medical IQA setting. Dimensional inspection was not their specialty - SQE's didn't know what a thread gage was. NO FLIPPING GAGES FINALLY, but not enough programming to stay busy. Had to run parts much of the time. Too many programmers, but that's the way the medical company wanted it, cause they wanted layers of people just in case. CALYPSO

    Gov contractor, aerospace now - 8 of us program 100% offline from the engineering dept. for a bunch of different types of CMMs and support the CMM operators on the floor. PC DMIS

    I like that "McGyver inspector". I think many of us have had that role.

    I used to work a lot with gages too. Good to learn all that, but I don't miss it either.

    I have never worked at a place with too many programmers. Must have been odd. I would hope, at least, it made it easy for you to go on vacations without everything falling apart.
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  • Started in a fishbowl in the center of a Caterpillar factory. Got to watch the Cat employees stand there goofing off for an hour at a time. PC DMIS. HAD TO DO GAGES

    Worked in an aerospace machine shop with a tiny, packed QC area. Learned the ways of a McGyver inspector. PC DMIS. HAD TO DO GAGES

    Worked in a new, pristine medical IQA setting. Dimensional inspection was not their specialty - SQE's didn't know what a thread gage was. NO FLIPPING GAGES FINALLY, but not enough programming to stay busy. Had to run parts much of the time. Too many programmers, but that's the way the medical company wanted it, cause they wanted layers of people just in case. CALYPSO

    Gov contractor, aerospace now - 8 of us program 100% offline from the engineering dept. for a bunch of different types of CMMs and support the CMM operators on the floor. PC DMIS

    I like that "McGyver inspector". I think many of us have had that role.

    I used to work a lot with gages too. Good to learn all that, but I don't miss it either.

    I have never worked at a place with too many programmers. Must have been odd. I would hope, at least, it made it easy for you to go on vacations without everything falling apart.
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