[AT] driver convenience systems

[Stephen Offiler]

Hey Cecil - let me just take that WAYYYY off topic.  Touch screen.  I work
with CNC machines.  We found a niche where we purchase older machines and
refurbish them to make our parts, and we still wind up at a small fraction
of the cost of new.  Three machines that date to 1989-1991 have control
panels that look a bit like an airplane cockpit, just a sea of knobs and
switches.  Once you get used to it, they all make sense. We recently got a
"new" machine, a 1997 model.  Very sparse control panel relatively
speaking.  All the functions are in there, but I have to call up menus to
make the changes that are a flip of a switch on the other machines.  I
decided it must be a cost thing.  A couple lines of code in the operating
system versus the cost of a toggle switch, the cost of drilling the hole,
and the cost of running the wires.  That's quite a few dollars cost to the
machine mfg per switch, and there's a lot of switches.  My actual problem
with this is training the employees.  We have a lot of "old dog, new trick"
problems at my workplace and the guys are pretty used to the toggle
switches.

SO


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:18 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> Spencer:
>
> The ridiculous ting is that the setting is on a touch screen instead of a
> switch.
> Cecil
> On 1/22/2020 2:43 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>
> You can toggle a setting that allows the lighting stalk to be “normal”
> brights on/off or be auto dim on/off.  But it’s a touch screen setting and
> 3 menus down....
>
>
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