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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
No wonder British industry is in decline again at the present if the response to my requests for calibration is anything to go by. I think I send emails and or spoke to around 8 or 10 companies over the last few days and I have only had 2 quotes back emailed to me and another came back to within a few hours and said that they could do the calibration as they don't do that type of meter calibration and neither could they think of anyone that they could suggest to me.
I mean its not a difficult thing to quote, they must have a fixed price list to work from and a list of meters that they can do. When I did quotes I had to spend days looking over dozens of engineering drawings. Reading through a consultants brief looking for the proverbial banana skin, drawing up a quick schematic for any special parts that we would have to make should we win the project and work out the logic required to achieve the wanted result, before putting pen to paper doing a through and detailed quote often several pages long.
This country is and always has been too complacent for its own good. :rant:
bd139:
Yeah sounds about right for the UK. I have noticed a trend that people don't want hard jobs.
This lead to most of my team being sourced abroad. Lots of talented people willing to do work elsewhere in the world.
Specmaster:
But if they have the right equipment, calibrating is not a hard or difficult job, too busy discussing last nights TV or the weekends football, at the water cooler I reckon.
bd139:
Not so sure. I spoke to one guy at a company and said “I’ve got a Hewlett Packard 3478A” and he asked me right away if it was a “fluke tester” or not. |O
Specmaster:
That's just a lack of product knowledge and gaining it is not a hard job. Surely if you're setting up a company to calibrate multimeters, you do your research about what you're going to be asked to do and decide which you can and those that you can't do and produce a list of can and cannot do and keep updating it. When someone like you or I say we have a Hewlett Packard 3478A, the look on the list?
Where the hell are we heading if the staff cannot refer to a list and give a yes or no answer? :-//
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