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For my exam in Systems Enegineering Analysis II next week, but I can't seem to stay off of getbig! ;D
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Enegineering ??? :D
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Enegineering ??? :D
Something like that! LOL illitirit? ???
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Enegineering ??? :D
You made that word less efficient, not more efficient like engineers are supposed to do.
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You made that word less efficient, not more efficient like engineers are supposed to do.
As you can see, its not going very well today ;D And then there are posts about hard or soft - to make matters worse!
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How old are you BA?
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men in thongs = more important than exams
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ACH, what does a Systems Enegineering Analyst do anyway?
I had a friend in a similar field who 'invented' some mechanical device that could guarantee (somewhat) that tall buildings and overpasses and bridges would not fall down during major earthquakes.
He was the same genius (we called him Dr Quack in school) who invented fireproof paint in his first year of college and almost burnt the school down until he finally got it right.
He also patented a device that would lift your canoe to the rack on the top of your car with little effort.
When he passed away he had something like 122 patents in the US Patent Office.
During the last 20 years of his life he just sat in his home office and thought of unthinkable things to make and then he'd patent them and eventually make lots of money. His kids and grandkids will never have to work a day in their lives.
He often claimed that he was merely a "thinking engineer".
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Wavelength, I'm 27 years old, this exam is for my masters, I graduate next month.
Stuntmovie, I have NO IDEA what a Systems Engineering Analyst does LOL... I work in manufacturing. Systems Engineering as a whole has many different sectors, I'm focused more on the side of Technology management and Product/Process Organization.
This course Systems Engineering Analysis, has a big focus on transforming mere ideas into actual prototypes and the processes in between. It looks into a study of analyzing customer requirements, and using that data to begin a production plan...
You are studying the risks, costs, etc involved to produce a system of multitude systems which are all supposed to be working in harmony with no errors, but of course there are always errors, so you then have to go into troubleshooting
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Wavelength, I'm 27 years old, this exam is for my masters, I graduate next month.
... if you make it through the getbig temptation that is ;D
Good luck man!
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... if you make it through the getbig temptation that is ;D
Good luck man!
LOL, my wife keeps telling me to stop "fucking around" and focus LOLLLL
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ACH.... Before ya focus, here's another question. Maybe you can read this and answer it after you get done studying. Don't waste your time right now!
BTW< thanks for your prievious response.
WARNING - FOR ENGINEER EYES ONLY ...... BORING STUFF.
Many years ago I worked as a kid for the Bank of America sending out dividend checks and related stuff for Disney Productions. The job consisted of folding a letter into thirds and then inserting that letter and a couple of coupons and a dividend check in an envelope, sealing the envelope, adding the stamp, sorting those envelopes by zip codes, tieing those sorted envelopes into bundles, and then rushing them to the post office.
We did all of this by hand until one day some engineer arrived with a huge 12 foot long mechanized unit that (as he so proudly claimed) would do all this work in a matter of minutes and our only job was to keep the machine supplied with the appropriate inserts, envelopes, dividend checks, red ink for the stamping process .... and string for the tieing device,
He came in like King Shit and set the damn thing up with three or four engineer helpers while all us guys watched thinking that we would be fired because here was a machine that would be doing our job much faster and much cheaper.
HA-HA! Were they mistaken!
It ended up taking more that a week to set that damn machine up and get it working well enough so that it would suck the envelopes (it had a suction device to move the envelopes into the proper position) and then suck the inserts into those envelopes and move each one individually down that line until they all ended up in a major train wreck at the very end just after the red ink stamping process.
I personally solved the 'train wreck' function/problem by standing there and preventing those train wrecks by quickly removing any 'loose cabooses' before they led all the other "looses' off the track.
So now we had two guys at the front of this envelope stuffing mechanism keeping everything loaded properly and another guy counting the dividend checks into groups of 500 to insure that 500 dividend check were inserted into 500 envelopes at the very end. This front end - rear end 500 ensured that 500 checks went into 500 envelopes and that no bank stockholder got more checks than he deserved.
So if we put 500 dividend checks in the front and ended up with 495 stuffed envelopes at the end, we had to open all those envelopes to find those five missing dividend checks and start the process all over once again until 500 in front equaled 500 in the rear.
So what used to take three of us to get the job done - now took six of us to get the same lob done plus plus two highly paid engineers to ensure that that damn machine kept on working.
And we always ended up looking for missing dividend checks because that damn machine had a mind of its own and sometimes inserted two checks instead of one.
Instead of three guys getting the job done manually in one week's time, eight of us got it done within three week's time with the help of that mechanical monstracity.
That was one hell of an expensive operation and more than likely the main reason why those dividend checks were so damn low the next we eight individuals sent them out.
I hope engineers are somewhat better today.
ACH... have you had the opportunity to watch those mechanical robots they use to manufacture automobiles. It's a real mystery to me how they can coordinate it to avoid any jam-ups (train wrecks) during that automotive process where a one second delay towards the front can have disasterous consequences further on down the line.
I had a good friend whose job it was to manually place heavy automobile bumpers into their proper positions and if he delayed by just a few seconds, the whole line would have to be shut down while everyone got pissed off and started yelling at him for the fuck-up. SO that job turned out to be a heavy lift and place operation for his 8 hour shift plus many over-times.
But that was the greatest workout of his life and he grew more muscle than was thought humanly possible. Eventually he was big enough and strong enough that he would do that work easily and never cause another online delay, but by then he was so damn big and ripped that no one would dare say a word even if he wanted to take a 15 minute break to check himself out in the mirror.
A real success story there which I might go into later.
My ultimate question, ACH..... What kind of engineers are involved in creating those big, automative, assembly lines? And have they really improved that much over the years or are they still having problems which we are not aware of?
Thanks. Good luck with your SEA II test.
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Huge Props BIGACH; good to see a true bodybuilder with a good career and ambitions.
There are more like us than people would think; the recent negativity makes us forget and believe that all bodybuilder are hustlers and Palumbos.
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Alex. what's your profession? Are you the same Alex that worked in the '300' movie?
Speaking of which... I saw "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" yesterday and liked it a lot. I knew nothing about the author or the book or this movie beforehand and really enjoyed it. I hear it is the first part of a trilogy. Any info appreciated.
It's a Swedish mystery movie with subtitles so if you have a hard time reading, it ain't for you.
You see it up in your part of the world, Swede?
Someone wake Swede up, please!
OH - YEA! Swede is another one of those honest likeable guys on this board similar to Grant and Bomz. I forgot to mention him. I got to add... Honesty with a "positive attitude" as being most important in likeability..
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Alex. what's your profession? Are you the same Alex that worked in the '300' movie?
Nah that was Alexxx (Rykov or something like that..) ... I think he still does extra stuff in Montreal... lots of shooting up there.
Me I'm just a boring Computer scientist / Engineering Manager for a big Tech in Socal & Silicon Valley 8)
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Stuntmovie - Manufacturing robots have come a VERY long way. As you've experienced some need human monitoring to help the robot organize his task a little, and some are very independent. I was visiting the factory of one of our sister companies over in Germany, they had one of the most bad ass robots I had ever seen. Its job was to weld together certain Air Conditioning components, and then stack them on a shelf behind it, it was amazing, it would pick up the components itself, weld the needed parts, and start stacking them, it had some sort of sensor that determined how many of these parts would go in a stack, and it did it soooo well, and knew where everything went. The person responsible of monitoring this robot, loved it, and told me that they run it on weekends and holidays and they have not had any sort of incidence. Not just that, but at times the robot, would need to do more than just weld, and it would pick the right tool from a shelf of tools and use it to do some work like drilling and hole punching, was one of the most incredible things I've seen in my line of work.
My company has a few robots (Welding, Punching, Paint, organization, etc), but nothing as sophisticated as what I've mentioned above, and that's purely because labor is pretty cheap in Egypt (where our factory is), so there has been no need to invest in some of the VERY expensive robots. Plus, the majority of our work is not mass production, but order by order and tailor made for the customer, so every job is different, we can't just throw the components on a line and put it together, its a bit more complex than that. And like you experienced yourself, it may just be more expensive for us to have to maintain these robots, than to just have it done by hand.
So it all really depends on the company and the task being performed. Its all about cost cutting, if a company can save money doing something with a robot (without impacting efficiency or even improving it) then they will use a robot, if its not worth it financially, then the company is better of not using it.
Also, something I thought of when you mentioned your big friend. We produce this one product, Air Jet Diffuser, which resembles something like a huge Cylindrical metal Tube. But to make these its extremely difficult and expensive, as you are taking flat sheets of metal and really expanding the metal into its tube shape, so we use this one HUGE guy who has to physically BEND the flat sheet metal and alter its shape on this rotating machine (its hard to explain how the process really goes), but the only thing you need to understand is a small weak person could not do the task, so we specifically hire a person who is STRONG and MUSCULAR for this job, and he gets paid more than the other factory workers due to the extent of the physical labor needed for this. And I tell you man, whenever I take any customers or partners on a factory tour, they are always so impressed by this one section, and the employee doing the job always feels so proud because people always take a million pictures of him as he works, he gets so excited, its pretty cool LOL This guy is known in our company as "The Muscle Man" LOL
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Alex23! Its an honor to get props from the ruler of GETBIG!! LOL much appreciated man!
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Henry Ford Approved!
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Howard Hughes engineered airplanes and slayed many whores.
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Howard Hughes engineered airplanes and slayed many whores.
Also notable for poducing many films, buying out tons of huge companies, and losing his mind and locking himself in a room for months and pissing in milk glasses ;D
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Thats because the whores drove him crazy 8)
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Thats because the whores drove him crazy 8)
Whores drive anybody crazy, thats what they do ;D
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For my exam in Systems Enegineering Analysis II next week, but I can't seem to stay off of getbig! ;D
Do it the Goodrum way.
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Whores drive anybody crazy, thats what they do ;D
Bingo bro
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Do it the Goodrum way.
Whats the Goodrum way?
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Your lack of willpower sickens me >:(
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Thanks for your detailed and interesting response, ACH. I find this shit fascinating for some reason and have friends working on various assembly lines back east that build automobiles. A couple of them lost their jobs due to robotics.
My friend (let's call him Sam) first started on a thoroughly manual automobile line in his home town while he was still going to high school. Initially it was a 4 hour a day job and the new guys on the line always got the shittiest job on that line and the shittiest job was placing those truck bumpers in their proper place and position.
So he and another HS buddy got that job which required the two of them to do the heavy lifting together and fast enough to keep that line in operation. If they fell behind, the line would have to shut down until they caught up.
Sam said that after that first day at work he actually went home and cried, but the money was good enough to keep him on the job and crying a bit each nite.
Sam was a 6ft tall skinny kid with no fat on his frame but he had no idea what muscles were either. But he persisted and spent his paycheck wisely at the local GNC buying protein thinking it would make him stronger should an 8 hr shift become available.
Within 3 months his buddy quit unexpectantly, but Sam realized he was on his own and would have no help until they found someone else willing to lift heavy bumpers.
That was when he fully realized that those heavy bunpers wen't so heavy as they used to be (they were the same wt actually) and he really didn't need any help to do the job, so he asked his supervisor, "Hey! If I do this by myself, can I get a raise?"
So they gave it a try and he got his raise and continued the heavy lifting for the next couple of years by his lonesome.
And he was 18 or 19 at the time and the muscle just kept on growing and growing until he became a freak of nature and a major attraction because all his fellow employees knew him as the crazy, skinny kid who never complained about lifting heavy bumpers. Now he was that crazy kid with an unreal build who still lifted those heavy bumpers - but with much less effort now.
He was super shy and very quiet but now everyone wanted to talk to him and ask his advice about their sons who were trying to get bigger for the local football team. And all he could honestly say was. "Just lift heavy things all day! That's what I do."
He was contest ready but had no idea what a bodybuilding contest was until one day he visited his HS gym for the first time to see how much he could bench press and the first comment he heard from the biggest competitive bodybuilder guy in the gym was, ......"Whoo! Fuck, dude! What the fuck are you on?! I would kill to look like that! You gotta train with me, dude!"
So now he had a training partner who was willing to show him what to do and how to do it right and the constant gains he made were amazing and noticeable by most of the people in his home town.
He actually became the guy to go to if some bigger gang member was threatening someone,. And Sam could never say "NO" when someone asked for a favor (his eventual downfall many years later) so he'd show up at some gang guy's front door and try to settle the matter peacefully. And many times he was successful. And a few times NOT!
After a couple of getting his ass kicked in experiences, he decided that he had to find some time to take some boxing lessons,
So he eventually showed up at a local boxing club and a couple of well known coaches see this 6ft plus pile of ripped up muscle and see some possible boxing potential so they put him in gloves and throw him into the ring with another kid. But this kid has boxing experience and within a minute Sam is flat on his ass seeing little blue birds.
But one coach noticed his quick reflexes and tells him to come back tomorrow.... "And lose some of that muscle, kid!"
And that was the very start of a very short but very successful boxing "career". And he never lost an ounce of muscle. It was more like a 25 lb gain.
Opps, got carried away a bit on this very true story which I'll try to continue in another pist if there is any interest.
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Whats the Goodrum way?
Just pay $29.95 and take a multiple choice test online at some make believe online college. Really simple.
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Che - Sigh
Noworries - I wish it was that easy, this exam is ALL MEMORIZATION, and the prof even said "I don't care if you just learn this stuff spit it out, and forget it the next day" - my plan exactly LOL
Stuntmovie - Its sad when people get fired due to technology coming in, breaks my heart. This is one good thing about Egypt.
BY LAW, if you've worked at a company for more than 1 year, you cannot be let go for any reason unless you've ROYALLY fucked up! There is no such thing as Lay offs or anything like that. So if I get a new robot in to replace someone, I have to find a new job for this person if he's been in the company for more than a year, can't let him go.
Now granted there are ways to make people leave lol, like taking away their benefits, bonuses, raises, and making them hate their life at the work place LOL
The law also works for the advantage of the employer, at an interview an employer can ask someone, his age, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, whether he has kids or not, anything he wants, and can decide to hire him or not hire him based on that, whereas in the US there are some strict rules about such things.
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Whores drive anybody crazy, thats what they do ;D
LOL X3.