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How Does Evey One Else Do It

How Does Evey One Else Do It

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I am starting this thread to see how other people do things. Every one has things they think there company does well and things they do that need improving, so this thread is to also help people learn from there pains and gains. Feel free to to also comment on places you think people could improve.

I will start....

Industry: Consumer Products
Number of Plants You Support: 30 across 9 sites
People in Your Department: 16
Department Responsibilities: Support of all lines, inventory of spare parts, electrical design of all lines guilt in house, mechanical design by request, and project management of new lines.
Programmable Logic Controls Used: Allen Bradley Compaq Logix or  Micro Logix 1500 (these are used in all new deployments). There older lines can have PLC 05, SLC500, DL05, DL205, S7, S5, FA2J
HMI:  Panel View Plus, Panel View, Eaton Canvas, Wonder Ware InTouch, Visual Basic (.net, 5, 6), RS View SE
Electrical Drawings Software: Visio 2003 (Looking at switching to Solid Works or AutoCAD Electrical)
Mechanical Drawings Software: Visio 2003 (Looking at Solid Works or AutoCAD Inventor)
One thing you thing your department does well: Electrical documentation, are electrical drawings are easy to read for the plant maintenance and our team.
One thing you think your department can improve on: Design time. It takes to long to design some of the projects. We are looking at switching to some consolidated tools and automated tools. For example, we are finding some additional speed with 3d modeling and would like to use a single tool for all development.

Brandon
www.techies-r-us.com

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