Posted Nov 22, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Let’s look briefly at cause and effect. In previous notes on this subject, I remarked choices between in-sourced or outsourced information technology solutions in an electrical design processes yield consequences . What’s in it for you? Knowing more about these issues will inform your choices.
A common way of referring to a tangle of human-factor issues is to say decisions are “political.”
Radical … Read More
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Posted Nov 13, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Coming from Great Britain to live and work in the USA it still strikes me as curious that people would describe how they had “built their house.” In the UK - where people would say “bought a house.” When you are getting a new house, in both locales home buyers would pay someone to build it. The contractor would offer choices of kitchen and bathroom fittings, floor plan, interior … Read More
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Posted Nov 19, 2009, by Paul Johnston
A lot in Electrical CAD and manufacturing quality hinges on data accuracy and completeness of the library data. From the carrion-crow-like perch of someone supporting design automation software, the immense and patient contribution of the ECAD librarians is often missed.
A couple of co-inciding recent events brought me to a renewed understanding of the significance of the work librarians do. Those … Read More
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Posted May 19, 2009, by Paul Johnston
On big systems, systems which involve changing core engineering processes, catalyzing adjustments in the way dozens of people work, it is natural that some opportunities to provide advanced or more subtle assistance in the software tools used gets shaken out. A good software vendor has a controlled mechanism for handling these requests.
Whilst deploying enterprise-class systems, if you fail to plan … Read More
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