garyhlucas
Stainless
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2013
- Location
- New Jersey
Yesterday was may last day at my last job. I went out on top. I installed a new control system on one extrusion line that is now making the best product they have ever done. Last Monday after maintenance spent two days troubleshooting a machine then I correctly identified the problem in ten minutes. This Monday I identified the mechanical problem that was causing a drilling machine to make bad parts after maintenance had repaired it.
I did not finish the big drilling machine I was building. Just fully automated no operator, double sided with 16 spindles run by 8 VFDs and 3 Servos, and a full enclosure with 7 sliding doors with electric locks. It was a project that a manufacturer would have had five people working on it for at least 2 months. I worked on it by myself for the past year with only a couple months of two high school students helping me. No machine tools, send it out or use a hand tools, and it was originally built in China so it had to be completely rebuilt because it had so many mistakes. Got close, the machine was running one of the five cycles when I left.
I carefully documented everything I did and had an exit interview with all of management and even told them I would take phone calls to help them move forward. I told the other engineer that I shared and office with that he would need a bigger office, for the 3 guys they would be replacing me with. I figured doing a great job right to the end would make it more painful than if I just didn't come in one day!
I did not finish the big drilling machine I was building. Just fully automated no operator, double sided with 16 spindles run by 8 VFDs and 3 Servos, and a full enclosure with 7 sliding doors with electric locks. It was a project that a manufacturer would have had five people working on it for at least 2 months. I worked on it by myself for the past year with only a couple months of two high school students helping me. No machine tools, send it out or use a hand tools, and it was originally built in China so it had to be completely rebuilt because it had so many mistakes. Got close, the machine was running one of the five cycles when I left.
I carefully documented everything I did and had an exit interview with all of management and even told them I would take phone calls to help them move forward. I told the other engineer that I shared and office with that he would need a bigger office, for the 3 guys they would be replacing me with. I figured doing a great job right to the end would make it more painful than if I just didn't come in one day!