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JohnRBaker
Mechanical
- Jun 1, 2006
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On August 8th, 47 years ago today, I sat down in front of a Unigraphics terminal for the first time, at the headquarters of United Computing Company in Carson, California.
It was the first day of a UG training class and I had never even seen or read anything about CAD-CAM let alone Unigraphics until that moment. I was working for Baker Perkins Inc, in Saginaw, Michigan, and my boss had sent me to the class as his department had paid for two people to attend the class and he picked me, as I was a mechanical engineer and the other guy was an electrical engineer (note that both of us had graduated from that same engineering school as had the boss, so I suspect that that had something to do with why he was sending us).
Anyway, the class was a week long and there were six students, all from Baker Perkins, the two of us from the Food Machinery Division, two from the Chemical Machinery Division and two from the Manufacturing Department. The Chemical Division sent a draftsman and their PhD analyst, while the Manufacturing department sent their top NC programmer (we were already using UNIAPT) and the guy who was going to be responsible for managing the day-to-day operation of the system, which ostensibly came under the control of the manufacturing department due to their experience running the UNIAPT system and thus having to deal with United Computing.
As for my cred's, here the certificate that I received for completing that first Unigraphics class:
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
It was the first day of a UG training class and I had never even seen or read anything about CAD-CAM let alone Unigraphics until that moment. I was working for Baker Perkins Inc, in Saginaw, Michigan, and my boss had sent me to the class as his department had paid for two people to attend the class and he picked me, as I was a mechanical engineer and the other guy was an electrical engineer (note that both of us had graduated from that same engineering school as had the boss, so I suspect that that had something to do with why he was sending us).
Anyway, the class was a week long and there were six students, all from Baker Perkins, the two of us from the Food Machinery Division, two from the Chemical Machinery Division and two from the Manufacturing Department. The Chemical Division sent a draftsman and their PhD analyst, while the Manufacturing department sent their top NC programmer (we were already using UNIAPT) and the guy who was going to be responsible for managing the day-to-day operation of the system, which ostensibly came under the control of the manufacturing department due to their experience running the UNIAPT system and thus having to deal with United Computing.
As for my cred's, here the certificate that I received for completing that first Unigraphics class:
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
