With how common remote work is these days, I'm wondering if anyone has ever been able to obtain an offline seat and a company-supplied workstation to program from home? I'd imagine that a lot of trust and prestige would be needed to be able to do this.
ALousyUser in the case where you don't have in-process models best to program live or measure up the stock and model it, roughly, yourself if you have access to CAD software.
@ALousyUser
I've been programming on an offline seat for about 16 years so programming offsite is no different. I normally work in plant, but if we are sick (I was out for Covid for 2 weeks back in September and didn't miss any work) or have appointments we can work from home (or anyplace we have internet access to) as needed. If we are needed in the plant to fix something we (mill, wire, lathe programmers) are to make a strong effort to come in and keep the machines running. I have written programs in doctor offices, hospitals and even at McD's with no issues. Corp IT says we are as secure as needed pretty much where ever we need to work from.
I've got one. It is awesome to be able to program remotely. Our "fat Laptop" is a bit old, but it's a powerhouse precision M4800 with 32gb ram with intel 8core 2.8ghz processor, & nvidia 16gb onboard graphics card. i've also got autocad, solidworks, and calypso (for processing CT scans) at my fingertips. I haven't stepped foot in the office for about two weeks now.
Seems like everyone on this thread has a programmer role for their job. How are your programs proven on the physical CMM? Are your operators competent enough to run through un proven program to make any corrections or adjustments? Or are your programs so good and robust that you can confidently send them to the operators to run with no issues? I think anyone can program offline all day from anywhere but at the end of the day, that program needs to be a CMM checking parts.