Sorry prohammy, I was refering to the original post. I dont have the opportunity to get on eng-tips often enough so sometimes (most of the time?) my posts no longer fit the context of the discussion.
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If you're not careful you might wake up one day and realize you've spent 1/3 of your life being bored.
The way I see it, money is a given- you will be doing some type of job no matter what. we've all known from the time we were little kids that we would have to work when we grew up. That being...
For whatever reason, there is a lot of variation at startup. Whether variation is seen at startup, randomly throughout the run, or attributed to a specific event it has the same negative effect on overall efficiency. Even though the machine is producing scrap and running at a reduced rate it is...
Engineers do not have to sacrifice their technical skills in order to improve their business and social skills and I wish someone would explain to me the rationale for thinking otherwise.
From the production end of it, our guys love building systems with the spring clips. From the perspective of maintaining the equipment it is a different story.
Among the other things already mentioned, access to the spring-release notch is often difficult. In an industrial environment, I don't...
The first thing I suggest is for you to determine why your department is struggling to identify its acheivements.
TenPenny is right. You must understand what management's expectations are for your department. If you don't know, then you must ask. I suggest you focus on what your leaders expect...
It stands to reason that as the coil turns on and off, the paper clip will oscillate with a pendulum motion as the hanging end is drawn, then released, by the on/off magnetic field.
The video shows the hanging end of the paper clip being drawn upward.
Markems,
Before you make your decision, you may want to think about the following considerations:
Do you just want to view the data coming from the load cell or do you want to save data to a file? Measuring torque at a static speed and load is different than analyzing a torque curve.
Are you...
I think anyone can make a simple vb application. You may be able to do what you want with nearly any MS Office application. Office comes with VBA (visual basic for applications) and contains a decent library of active-x controls. If nothing else, you can use it to learn how to make simple...
Over the years I've made a couple decisions that didn't turn out as expected. I can remember at least twice thinking that I was so far down the divergent path that I might not ever get back on track. While I considered these situations mistakes at the time, I'm now grateful for the opportunities...
You can't change the world, but you can change how you interact with it. It sounds like you have little respect for your lazy co-worker, so why do you let that person have so much power over you feelings?
Starting with Greg's abstraction of "Trust the Engineers", I'd condense it further yet. One word: Trust.
If there is a single untrustworthy element in the team, the performance and morale of all the individuals will suffer.
In my opinion, the article is simply socialistic propoganda. The author offers no facts, and cites no sources, to support the arguments put forth. The author implies the parking lots in Sweden are always filled from the back row first by citing the parking habits of one anonymous person. While...
