In article , Wes Stewart
writes:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:09:01 -0800, Bill Turner
wrote:

|On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:08:53 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:
|snip
|The only problem was keeping the GDO hidden from the metrology guys
|since they couldn't "calibrate" and service them so they wanted them
|gone.
|
|________________________________________________ _________
|
|Great story, Wes. But why couldn't the metrology guys figure out a cal
|procedure? I suspect the Not Invented Here syndrome, right?


The worst thing that could happen to our equipment was for it to go to
"Calibration." I had more than one piece of equipment "accidentally"
dropped and broken when they tired of maintaining it. If they did
this to an HP/Boonton 250 Rx meter what do you think would happen to a
Model 59?

The best we could do was get an "inactive" sticker put on the
equipment. This took it out of the cal cycle but theoretically meant
that we couldn't use it for anything. Also there were the everpresent
management directives to get rid of inactive equipment to reduce
inventory costs. Imagine how much expense could be written off if
Hughes Aircraft Co (now Raytheon) got rid of a Model 59 GDO g.

Dunno why you guys want to pick on metrology departments.

It's up to CORPORATE to see that metrology departments do
their thing properly. Most of them do. I worked in one for a bit over
two years (Ramo-Wooldrige) and everything was done according to
factory information and procedures. RCA Corporation was done the
same way.

On the other hand, Electro-Optical Systems (a Xerox division) was
terribly lax that way and any department could tag something out of
service and have it stored. EOS Corporate put such loose controls
on it that anyone could go into the storage area and "requisition"
anything, no questions asked.

Len Anderson
retired (from regular hours) electronic engineer person