How may of you get to see your program?

[jmm0422]

How many of you guys program and send it to the floor and never get to see it actually run?

 

How many of you program what you run?

 

I am in the first boat. We have so many new projects coming thru the shop, and I never know when that job I programmed will ever hit the floor that I do not get to watch the program run.

 

Any thoughts either way?

 

Jason

[Ocean Lacky™]

I see mine run every day!

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I like to see them run but don't always get to.

[DavidB]

+1 James

 

I think its still good to get there and see the machines cut and get an EAR on what your cuts sound like.

[Guest]

I get to see nearly nothing of what I program. Sure, I get out on the floor and get to see a minute here or a minute there, rarely do I get to actually run anything anymore.

 

I ran a partial prove out on a part a couple of months ago on a Saturday when none of the other guys could.

 

Other than that, I run nothing.

[HevyMetl]

Being a small inhouse mold build and repair shop I get to run about 90% of the things I program. With that said I do a quick prove out put a M01 at tool changes, and walk away. We have alot of stuff to get through 3 machines and it takes alot of attention quickly and a good ear. The older guy in the shop who handles alot of the grinding says I look like a dog sometimes. My head will rock to the side and I will listen for a moment then I will go and check the machine. That goes for the wire, mill and ram. They all have distinct sounds when they run good and if it doesn't sound right it probably isn't. We run alot of lights out cavity and core cutting and those programs we try to prove out before leaving. Tool breakage detection has made me much more comfortable and has saved our butts a time or two.

 

So to answer the question after a long fingered respones. Yes I get to run what I program.

[Thad]

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after a long fingered response

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John, I like that. You mind if I use it?

 

 

We have 5 seats of MC on the floor for 6 of us to share. We run all our own programs.

 

Thad

[Mcam Nut]

I dont get to run many of my programs anymore, but I do get to see them run when I have time to do a walk by, and I usually do make a point to check over the final product pretty close.

[JohnW@Kauffman]

I at least prove out everything and do the production run on some jobs. As someone very new to this, the proving/running has been tremendous OJT.

[Jimic]

I only got to see my program run, when it is BAD NEWs.When the prog. is NFG that the programmer go to the floor to fix it.

[Flycut]

For 2 years I did nothing but programming.

Rarely saw the jobs get run at that point.

I prefer to run my own programs I find it more efficient.

[Don Trust]

Being a small shop, I get to see about half of the stuff I program actually run.

 

Mostly, I could see any of it if I need to, but with wire EDMs, Jig Grinders, Gear grinders, and CNC Mills to program for, I don't always get the chance.

 

I have run all those machines in the past, and still do run all of them occasionally, as the need arises. Like this week, the operator for the wire EDMs is on vacation, so I'll be in charge of making sure the secondary op knows what's going on. It'll be a fun week :-)

[John13]

I program and run all my stuff. I do have a 2nd shift operator for production running, but only after I'm comfortable to let it go.

[chris m]

Since I do less programming than most of you guys do I get out to the floor to see my jobs run the first time thru unless it is a really simple part and I try to be there for those, too, if I can. I feel that the operator has more confidence when the guy who's responsible for the job is standing there, too.

 

If I couldn't watch the machines run and hold the parts in my hand, I wouldn't want to do this for a living anymore.

 

C

[spade117]

Occasionally I will see them run. There are times when people are out sick or on vacation that I will go back out to the floor and give the guys some help, if my workload allows it.

[Müřlıń®]

I programed and ran all my own stuff for about 10 years.

 

Now it is about half and half....

 

 

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get an EAR on what your cuts sound like

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+1, you can tell everything by the sound

[Jack Neelands™]

Ohter than setting up large production jobs for someone to push the button I run everything myself and make sure the nightshift has something to work with that I know is Idiot proof...doesnt always work out that way though

[TR Mfg.]

We are a small shop, so I run 90% of what I program. If I don't run it I always see the finished product before it ships.

[New Job]

I mostly program and watch others run'em. I insist on being there when the mold program are run for the first time, our operator is a little new. Other than that I don't run anything unless we are short handed or backed up.

 

[cqualls]

I run what I program now. My old job I programmed the jobs and the tool maker set them up and ran them. I could go out and see them running anytime I wanted.

[jeff]

I program and run all the cnc mill crap.

Sometimes I hop on the cnc lathe but that's rare anymore.

[mross]

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I like to see them run but don't always get to.

 

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James Meyette

CNC Programmer and MC Beta Tester

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ditto! sometimes I see it, sometimes I don't

[Thee Dragracer1951]

I program everything, mills , lathe. I usually do all the setups and hand them over to an operator. I'm getting two new machines this week though and am interviewing a programmer, so I hope to remove myself from that a bit.

I need to see them run though or I really wouldn't want to do this for a living

[mman10]

We program and run all our own jobs here. Wire and mill, 3,4 and 5 axis.

[Reverend Turk]

As a model maker I run everything I program! It is nice to see a project through from start to finish like that.