machinesurf
Plastic
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2018
I've been helping out at my uncle's machine shop for the past year. My uncle has been saying for a while that it's a shame more younger people don't go into the trade as he feels it's a dying art. While learning the ropes on machining (we focus primarily on oil & gas) and engineering, I've been putting my "young tech-eyes," as my uncle calls it, towards the shop's workflow and operations.
We currently run everything out of a patchwork of Excel spreadsheets - is this common with other machine shops? I've been looking at some MES software solutions, but none really seem to fit contact manufacturing or oil & gas precision machining.
I've also been playing around with an idea to make adding bubble/balloon numbers to drawings easier. Would love to get some of your feedback on it as well. Juronga – Bubble Numbers for Engineering Drawings
We currently run everything out of a patchwork of Excel spreadsheets - is this common with other machine shops? I've been looking at some MES software solutions, but none really seem to fit contact manufacturing or oil & gas precision machining.
I've also been playing around with an idea to make adding bubble/balloon numbers to drawings easier. Would love to get some of your feedback on it as well. Juronga – Bubble Numbers for Engineering Drawings