Today I learned a lot more about organization and documentation. Mark, my program manager, has an excel dashboard program that he uses to easily look up pieces and projects. He can look up jobs by Jedco's part number, the partner's part number, or the part's find number. It gives him back a lot of information about the part including tools used in the process, cost, quote, profit margins, and issues and comments. On one of the parts he was looking it up but none of the information was being brought back. So, in an effort to learn an important skill for engineering jobs and jobs in general, I taught myself Visual Basic, the language behind Excel formulas. At the end of the tutorial I was skimming and after about two hours of reading the code behind Mark's dashboard, I couldn't find any errors so I asked the person who wrote the code about the references and some clarifications about the code just to make sure I was clear on everything. At the end of it all, we realized there was a dash in the tooling number but no dash in the tooling number in another spreadsheet of approximately 500 tooling number references; so, the dashboard program couldn't find the tool because of bad data. This was tedious but paid off greatly and I saw what went into documentation and how important being careful in the boring stuff is.
I also got to work on some cad modeling today of a piece they already had. Tyler, one of the guys who are on the f-119 wall team, wanted me to familiarize myself with Autodesk Illustrator since all I had used was Solidworks. So he gave me a blueprint, the part that had been machined, and calipers to check measurements. I was happy to be doing something I was familiar with and proud of how well I did on it, the piece turned out well and I surpassed expectations.
I also got to work on some cad modeling today of a piece they already had. Tyler, one of the guys who are on the f-119 wall team, wanted me to familiarize myself with Autodesk Illustrator since all I had used was Solidworks. So he gave me a blueprint, the part that had been machined, and calipers to check measurements. I was happy to be doing something I was familiar with and proud of how well I did on it, the piece turned out well and I surpassed expectations.
Off to a great start. If you are able, some photos of the work you are doing or areas of the facility would be great. That will help your reader follow along. Also, be careful with your writing and editing as there are a couple small mistakes in this post. Keep up the great work. I am enjoying this already.
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