Re: Smith Chart Amusements

Hi Joerg,

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They are usually pulling 10hr days already.

What in the world are they doing? Tech support to end users or something?
Once servers and workstations are set up, if it's done right, everything is
quite reliable and IT guys should require very little time each day accorded
to "maintenance." The bulk of their hours should be "new projects" and "tech
support" (although, by hiring the right employees, hopefully you can minimize
that as well... and at all the engineering companies I've worked at, "IT tech
support" was always restricted to Windows, Office, and similar applications
that pretty much everyone used -- never the EDA tools, understandably
enough...).

Also, why re-invent the wheel?

Same as with EDA software... you might be able to do it cheaper and better
in-house than what the commercial guys provide. Or maybe not. (But I can
hire some pretty darned good programmers for much less than the $240/hr that
Epicor gets for consulting, you know?)

Interesting that in my case I think spending $10k on EDA software often makes
sense but I'm tempted to roll my own MRP system whereas in your case it seems
like you'd rather roll your own EDA tools and spend the $10k on the MRP
system. For a small business I expect that the answer to the MRP question is
to start with something like much smaller, like Parts & Vendors or MS-Works as
you did: No way could you pay someone to implement all that functionality for
the three-digit price tag they demand... but the question is no longer so
clear-cut when we're on to five-digit price tags.

(I seem to recall John Larkin mentioning that he occasionally contemplates
dropping his own home-rolled MRP "system," as much as it is, and puchasing
something like P&V...)

My father's comment was "Brotgelehrter", a German expression for someone who
would only put his brains to something when there is an immediate return on
investment.

Haha... You could tell him that right then you needed a job and not a hobby!
:-)

---Joel


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