> Effectively, this means that machinists' shops can't rearrange their very expensive, very large tools to improve their workflow from job to job without getting permission from the manufacturer (which can take a month!), even if their own the gear.
Have you ever seen such a workshop being rearranged? The people doing it might - for instance - not place the machine on a good enough quality of flooring, or they might be moving to a facility that is totally inappropriate (no good foundations) because they aren't talking to the right people and have a dim and naive view of machinery...
Also my experience of such rearrangements is that they are not to improve workflow, but more usually to satisfy some new management type's desire to have an impact on the workplace.
In short, I think this is prudent - it at least prevents a classic engineering management cock up - and protects the machine manufacturer from having their name tarnished by the sloppy practices of their customers.
The case where people know what they are doing is the exception and not the case in my experience...
Have you ever seen such a workshop being rearranged? The people doing it might - for instance - not place the machine on a good enough quality of flooring, or they might be moving to a facility that is totally inappropriate (no good foundations) because they aren't talking to the right people and have a dim and naive view of machinery...
Also my experience of such rearrangements is that they are not to improve workflow, but more usually to satisfy some new management type's desire to have an impact on the workplace.
In short, I think this is prudent - it at least prevents a classic engineering management cock up - and protects the machine manufacturer from having their name tarnished by the sloppy practices of their customers.
The case where people know what they are doing is the exception and not the case in my experience...