Re: Is a USB to GPIB dongle/convertor a difficult project ?

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Most places I've seen operate in similar fashion. But you know how it
goes. The guy with the floor buffer comes along, dragging that big power
cable. Leroy wants to quickly finish up what the night shift didn't
quite get done, he's a bit tired by now, rolls the cart with the heavy
analyzer, oops ...


The maintenance man was a full time day shift employee, and wasn't
allowed to move any equipment if the tech wasn't at the bench. There was
no second or third shift, just some overtime for the day shift people.
Most of the carts had so many cables run to the bench that they had to
be unhooked to move more than a few inches. We were notified of any
building maintenance, so if you needed the floor cleaned under your
bench, you unhooked everything and rolled it to the wall, in an are that
would be cleaned the following Saturday. I'm not trying to argue with
you, but the system can work well, with proper planning.

We eliminated carts, were possible, but some techs had over 50 pieces
of test equipment on their benches. We were an engineering to order
facility, and priorities could change a couple times a day, if a
customer's plans changed. We also built and tested some base chassis
for stock, for emergency orders. We were able to ship a couple custom
radios within three days, to replace equipment that was damaged at a
customer's site.


The businesses I usually work at are very different. Full-bore production with expensive machinery. So you have to maximize runtimes, up to about 20hrs/day with the remainder being used for PM. Often two 10h shifts. PM was also going around the clock from machine to machine. So the maintenance guys didn't have a chance other than interfering a bit. Including the guy with that big tile buffer ...

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