Frustration Station: Engineering Edition

I remember my first job out of college. I had worked hard and came out of school feeling like I could conquer the world.

I didn’t have a lot of experience then, but I was a quick learner and felt that whoever gave me a chance would not be disappointed. However, once I got my first job, I was the one who was disappointed. My first three weeks were spent updating tables on drawings. I then realized that a lot of the mathematics, science and analysis would not be used. While I moved on in my career and was given more responsibility, I was using more of what I learned, but there were still huge chunks of work that were boring, annoying or error prone.

Not only that, but the more boring work I did, the more mistakes I would make! Engineering was constantly pushed to get stuff out to the shop faster and faster, but we were only armed with our smarts and the fear of having someone in shop complain.

Once I used DriveWorks, so much of that went away. DriveWorks is kind of like a robot engineer. DriveWorks changes all the values in your models, deletes unneeded views and cleans up all your dimensions. All you do is tell it how to do it, which is surprisingly simple. Imagine taking your best engineer and giving him 5 times the amount of work, but instead of him pushing all the buttons and pulling the levers, he’s trained robots to work just like him, but faster and with less mistakes.

To Ben W. - I’m sorry but Star Trek is not better than Star Wars!