Yeah, gotta admit, that thought hit my mind as well. Rather have fewer hands in the pot here even if it takes longer to get them all put together and sent out... Quality control is kind of a big thing! :-/gibberish said:can someone please explain what craigix actually meant when he called for volunteers in the dallas area to help assemble pandoras?
I don't particularly want my pandora assembled, or even handled, by inexperienced members of the public :/
gibberish said:I'm confused. Just what the hell kind of factory allows members of the public in to help out without first screening them all, insuring them all against injury and making them sign a contract? That is the most bizarre thing i ever heard.
gibberish said:I can't imagine what sort of factory would actually allow that to happen tbh, it sounds like a ridiculous idea to me.
gibberish said:I can't imagine what sort of factory would actually allow that to happen tbh, it sounds like a ridiculous idea to me.
You do realize that most assembly line work doesn't require any sort of certification, right? There's no "experience" or whatnot required. So long as you can follow instructions and have basic motor skills, you can get a job working an assembly line somewhere. Put board in plastic A, put screen in plastic B, roll ribbon cable around plastic C and insert into plastic D, etc...gibberish said:I don't particularly want my pandora assembled, or even handled, by inexperienced members of the public :/
WizardStan said:You do realize that most assembly line work doesn't require any sort of certification, right? There's no "experience" or whatnot required. So long as you can follow instructions and have basic motor skills, you can get a job working an assembly line somewhere. Put board in plastic A, put screen in plastic B, roll ribbon cable around plastic C and insert into plastic D, etc...
They wouldn't be soldering on components or anything, they have robots for that. It'd just be putting things together and screwing them down. It's not that hard to get wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if they hired high school students to help assemble other things during the summer, even. They probably don't, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Exophase said:WizardStan said:You do realize that most assembly line work doesn't require any sort of certification, right? There's no "experience" or whatnot required. So long as you can follow instructions and have basic motor skills, you can get a job working an assembly line somewhere. Put board in plastic A, put screen in plastic B, roll ribbon cable around plastic C and insert into plastic D, etc...
They wouldn't be soldering on components or anything, they have robots for that. It'd just be putting things together and screwing them down. It's not that hard to get wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if they hired high school students to help assemble other things during the summer, even. They probably don't, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
That's not true, if you're going to be coming into any contact with an exposed PCB you have to have ESD training. Of course, you can train people in an hour, and just make sure they're all strapped and working on ESD mats..
RajTakhar said:They only time you want noobs touching a pandora on a shopfloor is to do basic testing - whack in a test JIG and see if all basic checks okay then pack em, getting a noob to touch a bare pcb is a little crazy to say the least
Uh... what?RajTakhar said:I will now argue against letting people solder and use that as a spring board to say that untrained people shouldn't be assembling at all!Exophase said:I will make a valid point about still needing some minimal training to even touch electronicsWizardStan said:There's a lot of things to assemble that don't require soldering. Them screws can't put themselves in. They can do this!
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what?RajTakhar said:I will now argue against somethingExophase said:I will make a valid point about somethingWizardStan said:They can do this!
banjeed said:Yeah!!! Next thing you know, they're going to let non-certified company professionals start writing drivers and software for the thing and maybe even make us use a OS built by a community.
Oh, i see, you don't want just ANYONE messing with your hardwarefiori_musicali said:banjeed said:Yeah!!! Next thing you know, they're going to let non-certified company professionals start writing drivers and software for the thing and maybe even make us use a OS built by a community.
Messing with my software is one thing, messing with my hardware is another. A void point.