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After years of this.... I find it boring.

Lord_Warfield
I've been in manufacturing for 26 years... Disappointed IT may have drained the very life from my soul. Confounded
  • Manufacturing ( especially quality ) is a thankless soul sucking endeavor. Manufacturing is always right, your CMM is checking it wrong. Quality guy is an idiot and doesnt understand CNC's ( even though I have 10 years implantable medical manufacturing on CNC's previos to being in quality ) , my company tries to put quality in parts after the fact, never upfront. Quality costs, doesnt pay.... I could go on and on.... I need a drink...

    So that's how your Monday is going already, huh? Rolling eyes
  • I left over a year ago on what lasted about 11yrs… guess what I’m doing right now? Miss the ol CMM. I think I’ll go back one day.

    I'm sorry to hear that your new career path, away from CMMs, hasn't been all positive. What do you miss most about working with CMMs?


  • I'm sorry to hear that your new career path, away from CMMs, hasn't been all positive. What do you miss most about working with CMMs?

    All around precision is what I miss most (really think about its beauty). Second would have to be sitting in front of Pc-Dmis and writing a trick program and choosing all the different probe angles. Stuff I took for granted on the daily really


  • All around precision is what I miss most (really think about its beauty). Second would have to be sitting in front of Pc-Dmis and writing a trick program and choosing all the different probe angles. Stuff I took for granted on the daily really

    Thanks for the response. I have been struggling a bit lately with wonder lust. Working with CMMs just hasn't been as exciting for me as it has been in the past. But you're right. There is a lot to appreciate about the work.

    I certainly do like to nerd out about the precision of these machines. It is quite amazing what they are capable of and how they manage to do it.

    And, I guess there is something nice about the level of control and options you have working with this software. For the most part it is a solo endeavor so there is a lot of freedom to try different things and have fun with it. A person can take a lot of pride in a good measuring routine when it is wholly created by themselves.
  • I think it depends on what you have to program. If it's just endless variations on the same 20 parts it can get old. At a former job, on some parts, I had refined the process down to where I just had to input 5 or 6 variables and I was done with the new program. I even had one program that would run well over a hundred variations of the same basic assembly. The programs were pretty much bulletproof and I had some satisfaction from that. Moved on to a machine tool builder where I had to write a new FAI program every week or two and run capability studies. I enjoyed seeing a wide variety of prints from many different companies. At my present job, I get a ton of R&D parts, mostly molded that also need full FAI's. It can get tedious with all of the intersections and angle points it takes to create a program.


  • Thanks for the response. I have been struggling a bit lately with wonder lust. Working with CMMs just hasn't been as exciting for me as it has been in the past. But you're right. There is a lot to appreciate about the work.

    I certainly do like to nerd out about the precision of these machines. It is quite amazing what they are capable of and how they manage to do it.

    And, I guess there is something nice about the level of control and options you have working with this software. For the most part it is a solo endeavor so there is a lot of freedom to try different things and have fun with it. A person can take a lot of pride in a good measuring routine when it is wholly created by themselves.

    I had to get a “move” or “career shift” off my chest. I would recommend trying other things unless you have a bunch time and energy.
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