HereWeGoAgain
Diamond Member
Lmao I Remember seeing the old ticker tape, and watched my dad at work design with out cad in the 80s, I am also a good manual machinist, took 3 years of mold making in college in the 80s grew up with a lath and bridge port in my garage.What I am getting at is I don't under stand what you are saying? The operators at my work, don't do anything more complicated then 30 years ago, except they have to keep track of there rejects, good parts, write them down and make damn sure they catch short shots, splay, burns, flash... Back then no one really gave a damn
There is some truth to needing to know more these days.
When I fist got into machining CNCs where in there infancy and ran off punch tapes.
Now of course it's computers.
Hell,most shops didnt even have a CNC,now they've pretty much taken over and manual machinist are hard to come by.
The other side of it is it allows a shop to hire a programer and a set up guy and put a bunch of button pushers on the machine for twelve bucks an hour.
While skilled manual machinist is making the big bucks on R&D and one or two piece orders.
I am also a great plastic processor and I totally get your drift about button pushers, I have idiots mold techs at work on 3rd who loads a mold program and if it don't make good parts they call me right away, there are making $28 bucks an hour and as dumb as crap. Most the time it is a very simple machine or robot program adjustment
I did every thing from NASA flight hardware,R&D on the F-22 Raptor,artificial hearts on down to oil field parts over the years. The NASA stuff was the most interesting.