I also highly recommend buying the Lindeburg book, and then working all the way through the book.
I took the test after being out of school 10 years, but had been working as an engineer. I bought the Michael Lindeburg study books. Studied every morning before work for a few months. Worked...
It sounds like there are not any good alternatives that save time and still give good results. I'll stick with the anodizing. Thanks everyone.
Richard
www.led-inc.com
I get aluminum parts made and usually have them anodized for appearance and scratch resistance. The problem is that it usually adds a couple of days to deliveries.
Is there a low cost alternative to anodizing that can be done in-house by dipping or brushing? Something that does not require...
I think we are all on the same page and this is understood; the discussion is only regarding legal and ethical ways to use the software. We all know that there are unethical ways to go about using any software.
Between the answers here and from my local SW reseller, I have enough information...
Does SolidWorks lease or rent licenses for short term, such as a few months? or are there other companies that lease a floating license. I use another 3D CAD program for most work, but have one possible customer for a short term project and need to deliver files as native SW assemblies, parts...
My company registered in CCR a few years ago, without doing any marketing to the gov't, and of course without any new work from it. Now looking into getting a GSA schedule. It seems like a LOT of red tape.
Has anyone here been through the process? If so, could you tell us about it? Is it...
1. Virginia - Mechanical(industrial machinery and products)
2. Low bidding and proposal activity; doing lots of marketing and looking for new opportunities
3. Low workload, 1 small machine project
4. Flat trend this quarter
Richard
www.led-inc.com
Question: in the HVAC/R field, typically what do the deliverables from engineering companies look like? Please be as specific as you can.
For example, in my role as a mechanical engineer, I mostly do special machinery and product design for manufacturers. Most of the time the deliverables...
VC66,
Could you post an example script that you use to get the 40% success? It would be very useful to some of us to learn. I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine that works in sales and marketing for a company that performs an industrial service. He is able to get an appointment...
Most of my customers have either found me or are referraled to me by others. Be "findable" when people are searching for your services, so have a website, get listed in directories, participate in any networking you can, attend trade shows and talk to people, echange business cards, let everyone...
Reinforcing what a few others have stated here, I've heard the saying that E&O insurance is a "lightening rod for lawsuits" and that if you don't have it, and if the company does not have significant assets, which my company does not, the attorney's will not bother going after you. They have...
As you stated, most are just thrown away. I suggest paying a visit to several of your local machine shops, and ask if they can help you collect these items, and get a tour of their shop at the same time. Some shops are not very quick to clean up, and may have lots of broken items around...
I use a JVCGant Pro, and it works very well for me.
It came packaged with Mindmanager, which I use for brainstorming, estimating a BOM, and a variety of other tasks.
Richard
www.led-inc.com
Grunt58;
I used mfg.com both as a supplier and as a buyer.
It works great for me as a BUYER of machine shop parts.
However, as a SUPPLIERr of engineering services, it was wasted money. There are VERY few serious engineering projects posted.
The system is not suited well for...
Congratulations D3.
I've been in business 2-1/2 years, and one lesson that I have learned the hard way is to set your rates high enough to account for ALL your overhead, and the number of billable hours you can realistically achieve. You may find that you need to spend a lot of time doing...
I'm not really working on projects where we are going to merge designs from various sources; I produce a design, and maybe scheduls, and the customer and others view and comment about it, we plan next steps ask, and answer questions, etc.
For anyone using any of the online collaboration or file sharing services for communicating and collaborating with the customer on a project, could you share with us what you have used, how you use it and what you like or dislike?
I'm using one now, which is one of the most simplistic ones...
