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slang · 10-02-2004, 09:40 PM

Roosta,

The program is called UG everywhere as far as I know. The company website listed many of the companies from all over the world that use their product a few years ago. Now it's been bought out or reorganized and I cant even find the actual home website. It seems logical that it's called something else, a slight variation must be. How hard should it be to google "unigraphics" and get the company's main website?

Whatever.

Snake,

In the 90s, the first questions a perspective employer would ask were, "what's the last rev you worked on.....and how many hours do you have on that rev". Everything else was secondary, even if you worked at that company before. What's that you say....you worked for our competitor? What's that....before that you worked for us? That's nice....what was the latest rev you worked on and how many hours did accumulate on it? Everything else was secondary. Oh, you have a doctorate in engineering from MIT, that's nice....what's the latest rev and how many hours?

Having the latest rev was key. That might not be the case now since the market has been soft for a couple of years. This software is so freakin complex and works with so many other sensitive programs that the file standards must be in total comliance or there will be problems using the main data files with the tangent programs.

The intended use of the system is to be everything to everyone. Machinists using the cnc from the models, the stress engineers using the same models, the detailers and designers making drawings from them, the project engineers using the database manager to track and manage progress and deadlines, even the production planners and the finance people were in the loop using this same system....all at the same time.

The more a company is using these tangent capabilities, the more important having the model and assembly files orgranized and compliant is. If there are problems at one level, there are likely problems at all levels.

So, there is a possiblity that I might get into a company as a direct hire, but even that will be a challenge. Hopefully, I'm wrong and someone will see my resume and instantly want to hire me, but I dont think so. What have you done lately will most likely be the first question, or problem to overcome.

There is also the fact that there are a large number of young graduates that are truely more capapble overall to handle a design or engineering position. On top of that, they would probably be willing to work for less and be more hip than us "old guys".

But then again, what do I know.

10-02-2004, 09:40 PM	#6
slang St Petersburg, Florida Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,423	Roosta, The program is called UG everywhere as far as I know. The company website listed many of the companies from all over the world that use their product a few years ago. Now it's been bought out or reorganized and I cant even find the actual home website. It seems logical that it's called something else, a slight variation must be. How hard should it be to google "unigraphics" and get the company's main website? Whatever. Snake, In the 90s, the first questions a perspective employer would ask were, "what's the last rev you worked on.....and how many hours do you have on that rev". Everything else was secondary, even if you worked at that company before. What's that you say....you worked for our competitor? What's that....before that you worked for us? That's nice....what was the latest rev you worked on and how many hours did accumulate on it? Everything else was secondary. Oh, you have a doctorate in engineering from MIT, that's nice....what's the latest rev and how many hours? Having the latest rev was key. That might not be the case now since the market has been soft for a couple of years. This software is so freakin complex and works with so many other sensitive programs that the file standards must be in total comliance or there will be problems using the main data files with the tangent programs. The intended use of the system is to be everything to everyone. Machinists using the cnc from the models, the stress engineers using the same models, the detailers and designers making drawings from them, the project engineers using the database manager to track and manage progress and deadlines, even the production planners and the finance people were in the loop using this same system....all at the same time. The more a company is using these tangent capabilities, the more important having the model and assembly files orgranized and compliant is. If there are problems at one level, there are likely problems at all levels. So, there is a possiblity that I might get into a company as a direct hire, but even that will be a challenge. Hopefully, I'm wrong and someone will see my resume and instantly want to hire me, but I dont think so. What have you done lately will most likely be the first question, or problem to overcome. There is also the fact that there are a large number of young graduates that are truely more capapble overall to handle a design or engineering position. On top of that, they would probably be willing to work for less and be more hip than us "old guys". But then again, what do I know.