On Thursday 13 February 2020 12:51:26 Chris Albertson wrote: > When designing something new one must be VERY careful not to be one of > Henry Ford's customers. In an interview, someone asked Henry Ford > (Who was famous for saying "You can have the Model T in any color you > like, so long as you like black.") Mr. Ford said that if he had > listened to his customers that would have told him all they wanted was > a faster horse.
Don't forget Younger women and More money ;-) [...] > Back to CNC. Step back and people just want to make parts, not > fiddle with 100 details of how the CNC machine works. That is setting > the bar really high. But in a one man shop in a pond full of frogs, I have to either know all that, or pester you kind folks for pointers from the real experts. And I appreciate the brain pool this list is, a lot. > I've done this for other projects at work. The first step is to fly > out to where your users live and watch them work. See what they do > and how they spend their time. The low-hanging fruit are tasks that > take a lot of time but not much brainpower. User productivity goes > up when you automate those tasks. This is one of the things I have done several times as a tv engineer, look the operation over and see where the big time sink is, and fix it, often with a very low powered computer because it still works faster than a human. But it can replace that human and his reaction times by something many times more consistent with any human that can push a few labeled buttons. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
