BTW thanks to all of you who spend time working o it. Especially those who do the unglamerous work. If you ever find yourself in northeast ohio I will buy you dinner and drinks. It's the least I can do. Come visit us!
Thank you all, Curtis Dutton Industrial On Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 9:13 PM Curtis Dutton <curtd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Linuxcnc is the mellenium falcon. I have a small manufacturing company. We > are dominating our niche because of linuxcnc. > > When I show someone from industry they only see "axis" (which is just fine > by the way) and they politely say nothing because it looks like it is from > 1998. > > Then they watch the "crappy" old machine run and again say nothing. But > this time their mouth is hanging open because I can make $5000 per hour > with it. (If only I could do that for 24 hours per day alas we are small) > > God bless linuxcnc. > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 10:35 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> On 1/8/25 09:57, Bari wrote: >> > What are the levels below hobby grade? >> > >> > I am surrounded by broken systems like Fanuc and Siemens. Their >> > programmers/tech can't even make their own systems operate properly >> > and they won't offer us their source. >> > >> > For example we have a few new robots that they recently installed and >> > programmed, yet they crash into each other and the materials they >> > interact with near daily. Just lucky or incompetent factory tech staff? >> >> The latter Bari. My observation's over my 90 years pretty well confirms >> that. Having observed the level of factory service while chasing >> electrons for a living for 75 years, some of the stuff I've found and >> fixed is downright scary. As a CET and broadcast engineer, some things >> I have done are magic to the EE's I've encountered. If they make a >> mistake, its generally a doozy. Some of mine has been too. >> >> The biggest problem with factory service techs is if they are good, they >> aren't paid enough so they quit and start their own company, because >> stuff they design to work, are overhauled by an MBA who actually knows >> zip about the electricals, checking the BOM and over-ruling the >> designers choice of parts. If it still works when he has subbed cheaper >> parts, its the exception that proves the rule. >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Emc-developers mailing list >> > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >> > . >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. >> -- >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) >> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. >> - Louis D. Brandeis >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-developers mailing list >> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >> > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
