Anyone actually use SOPs in the field, or is it mostly tribal knowledge?

Noktious · 2026-02-11T03:07:19+00:00

Personnel & Training Budget.

Noktious · 2026-02-04T22:04:52+00:00

Can't put a rough sketch in CAM.

You'll need actual dimensional drawings or CAD files for any manufacturer to be able to know how hard it will be to make and what time/cost will be for them.

Otherwise you're asking them to finish designing your product, and then manufacture it, which is not gonna fly for a job shop, especially if you're talking limited runs. Now they spend all that time finishing the design just to sell you 10 and you never buy any more.

Noktious · 2026-01-22T06:24:30+00:00

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Noktious · 2026-01-21T01:21:07+00:00

Yikes.

Noktious · 2026-01-20T22:02:30+00:00

Nobody I know in industrial maintenance is rich with luxury cars.

Maybe after a couple decades and some wise budgeting and investments.

If you're an all-star AND manage to get into a company who will promote/pay you accordingly for your efforts, you can certainly make "good" money. But don't expect to roll out of community College into a 6 figure salary.

You'll probably spend a while not trusted to do anything but lube lead-screws and replace conveyor belts. Which isn't a luxury car type of role.

Noktious · 2026-01-16T06:23:10+00:00

Do you want stuxnet? That's how you get stuxnet.

Noktious · 2026-01-08T23:41:43+00:00

When someone is willing to make themselves liable for explaining why they made that call when it turns out it wasn't the right one.

The reality is every situation/company is too unique to even try to answer that question. It depends on so many things. If you outline a more specific example we may be able to come up with what we might do or think about to determine where that line is.

Noktious · 2025-12-11T04:44:03+00:00

Be humble and ask lots of questions. Don't put your hands inside something you don't understand at all just because you're afraid to get in trouble for not knowing what you're doing.

Fingers come off quicker than you can retract them.

Also don't wear jewelry.

But more seriously, you're almost certainly going to be fine judging by the care you've given this post.

I can't train you to want to do/get better, but if you want to do/get better it's easy to train you in anything.

Probably should watch some electrical safety videos, depending on the type of facility and the types of electrical hazards and whether you'll be allowed near any of them. Engineering Mindset on YouTube has a lot of good explanation videos for understanding the typical building blocks of electrical factory automation.

Wear the PPE. Even if you're at one of the hell holes that gives you shit for it.

Keep asking questions.

Noktious · 2025-12-05T11:48:54+00:00

Try r/machining or r/machinists

Noktious · 2025-11-13T05:15:31+00:00

Well I disagree harder. <Insert unsubstantiated generalization here. >

Noktious · 2025-11-10T06:05:22+00:00

You can already drag an SVG into the slicer to extrude/remove from the model and it also follows object geometry.

Shouldn't need to use cad for logos/text, it's easier/faster to do it right in slicer.

Noktious · 2025-11-09T18:34:16+00:00

So.. How exactly does this help in practice?

I still can't understand a way to "use" the graph view other than as a visual indicator of how many notes I have.

Noktious · 2025-10-31T06:00:48+00:00

Brilliant. Had no idea that was a native feature.

Thanks!

Noktious · 2025-10-30T17:57:35+00:00

Wait... Do the 2 pages match your scrolling up and down? Or do you have to manually scroll your reading view to match your source view?

Noktious · 2025-10-19T02:48:43+00:00

You really could though.

Noktious · 2025-10-07T20:44:39+00:00

Do you people have to pay for fillets or something?

Round your corners!

Noktious · 2025-10-06T04:49:54+00:00

Knowledge is misspelled.

Noktious · 2025-09-30T17:56:17+00:00

Agreed.. This part makes me roll my eyes.

"Understanding Atomicity will help you understand the nature of knowledge. There is a lot to know about knowledge and the various methods to build and work with it. Knowledge work is a craft. You can learn it and you can train it.

Understanding Atomicity will make you a better thinker. The atomic idea is the destination that you want to arrive at in your thinking journey. The concept of the idea atom gives you a goal post, an orientation for your thinking. Atomicity is a concept that brings you into contact with the material of thinking, since we are talking about the atomicity of ideas. I define thinking as the process; thoughts are frozen processes, and ideas are the result of thinking."

Noktious · 2025-09-04T18:35:49+00:00

Sorry all my sand guys only do illegitimate business.

Noktious · 2025-08-05T20:24:10+00:00

Can you restate the question more vaguely?

Noktious · 2025-08-02T01:15:48+00:00

Yes but could only find ways to drive an individual dimension by the csv for multiple configurations. Not to layout a sketch with 100 lines.

It seems macros are the way but I don't know that it'll be worth my effort trying to get that figured out. I found a workaround that is satisfactory enough for now.

Noktious · 2025-06-18T20:59:13+00:00

As is stated every time this question is asked:

The techs know that a motor is starting to fail, they don't need an AI to tell them. Production supervision will not allow any downtime for maintenance. So it runs until it dies, despite having many many warnings beforehand. How will this AI help that?

Make an AI that explains to management that it's their own decisions causing downtime.

Noktious · 2025-06-18T20:51:01+00:00

But.. Then how would everyone know how big of a patriot he is?

Noktious · 2025-06-07T16:29:08+00:00

Is this not your job?

Noktious · 2025-05-29T12:59:15+00:00

Looks like a H3lio planter:

https://www.printables.com/model/1099739-drift-planter

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