training topics
training topics
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If management asked you what training would be beneficial to you as a day-to-day worker as well as career enhancement, what would you suggest?
Please excuse software specific topics, ie AutoCAD, SW, UG...
I'm asking about subject matter such as GD&T, FEA...
I know this is broad, but I'm just inquiring so that I may orient my career goals with those of the industry. For example, I don't want to waste time learning something that has become obsolete due to computational power (log tables & slide rule efficiency).
Please excuse software specific topics, ie AutoCAD, SW, UG...
I'm asking about subject matter such as GD&T, FEA...
I know this is broad, but I'm just inquiring so that I may orient my career goals with those of the industry. For example, I don't want to waste time learning something that has become obsolete due to computational power (log tables & slide rule efficiency).





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-SolidWorks, PhotoWorks
-CAM software
-FEA (Cosmos, Algor, any)
-A PDM file management software (I use PDMWorks)
-Any MS Office product
-HTML
-JAVA
just a few listed here
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Critical Thinking
Structured Problem Solving Tools
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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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Makes more sense than most university courses.
David
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
www.muleshoe-eng.com
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The harder I work, the luckier I seem
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CAD: I know you said to leave this out, but it's your pencil, and you should know how to use it.
Manufacturing Methods: Hard to design a part if you don't have a good idea of how it's getting made. For me it's mostly machined parts, injection molding and sheetmetal.
Tolerance Analysis: Obviously related to GD&T and statistics, but worth noting on it's own, since you only need a little of statistics and no GD&T to apply it.
Paperwork: Understand your companies ECO and other procedural documents. This is even more important if your in some heavily regulated field like medical.
Prototyping: Depending on the industry this may be a mathematical, CAD, cardboard, or fabricated steel model. Learn the appropriate techniques to get it made. Iteration is the key to good design. Making early, inexpensive mistakes is the fastest way to the best product.
-b
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I'm intrigued by your observation that "(there is nothing on Oil & Gas and nearly as much on compression)"
Did you get a feel for why that is? Is it perceived that there is no future in oil and gas? Has it 'all been done' or is it just not attractive enough when compared to other branches of engineering.
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David
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As far as Oil and Gas are concerned, ASME sounds real good compared to the IMechE
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History
Philosophy
Literature
Religion
oh...and some form of crash course in: "How to Communicate Effectively to the Non-Technical".
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Consider any common software that you don't use and possibly could. Consider more in-depth programs in software you do use. Consider safety, regulatory, legal, financial requirements pertaining to your work. Personnel issues? Maybe foreign language.
With common software- Excel, AutoCAD- the programs are so involved, that you can use them for years and still have functions you never heard of, which tends to make classes in them somewhat worthwhile for nearly anyone.
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You drive every day. If you are a better/safer driver, that will only safe the company because you will get to work more often on time.
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
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Hg
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-b
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For anything other than customer product manuals this place is awful.
One ECO read something along the lines of "the current cabling is a mother to instll"!
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I came across this statement in the online help manual for a signal converter:
"If the program was unable to find the correct location it will log this in the ERROR.LOG file in FC Configuration’s program directory.
For a successful translation it will say:
Unable to find location: LOC_WOBBLY_BITS
Successfully translated to: LOC_DANGLY_BITS
For an unsuccessful attempt it will say:
Unable to find location: LOC_SQUISHY_BITS
and nothing else."
I spoke to the writer of this manual and he told me it had been in the manual for the last seven years and no one had complained. "In fact," he said, "You're the first one to spot it. It means either that no one reads the manuals or that the clients have a sense of humour."
Of course, in this era of "user friendly" and "Intuitive" programming, I may be the only one dumb enough to have to read the manual.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Hg
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Not sure it isn't already listed but an idiots guide to the MRP system with some half decent crib sheets to go with it would be good.
That or get manufacturing Engineers to actually do manufacturing Engineering then it wouldn't be such an issue.