I need some ammo from the experts!!

I need some ammo from the experts!!

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I need some ammo from the experts!!

Anonymous
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Ok, wage review is coming up, and I need some ammo from the experts!!

I have been designing using MDT and IV for six years at my present job. Along with this I have been writing macros for the company (see attached pic). Most of the macro’s I have implemented search through access data bases pulling the information required and load it into the macro’s form and then on to the dwg and iam, ipt, idw’s and any required excel spread sheets. Also the macro’s work the other way as far as pulling information from the IV files and MDT dwgs and putting it into the database.

If the company had to hire an outside source to create the macro’s, what would they have spent?

Some of these macro’s take an all day job and turn it into a 15 min data entry. No joke, in the last year and a half , the macro’s have logged a 1.6 million dollars worth of through put.

Yes, the macro’s load the qty and cost of the job into a private database I have been keeping for just this purpose.

So where do I go from here? Any thoughts?
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I probably should have mentioned that the macro's get information from the database and the user. Goes out grabs the parent models, creates the new directory, save the new model, opens and updates all part and assy's, and idw's.
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"If the company had to hire an outside source to create the macro’s, what would they have spent?"

Do you know how much time you have invested into all those macro's?

I think $100,- / hour is a decent rate (at least, that's what most people are charging as far as I have seen)

Do the math 🙂

HTH,

Teun Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV
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Teun,
Thanks for the responce. I didn't keep good record of time. However I get the picture.
Thanks again
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I'm currently being hired out for a few days consultancy work (nothing to do with programming) at £500 per day, normally based on 8 hours per day.

Think also of an upmarket BMW or Mercedes garage, how much an hour would they charge to fix a car??
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"£500 per day, normally based on 8 hours per day"

£500 / 8 hours = £62.5 / hour = $101,49 / hour

:-)

Like I said, $100 / hour

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T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

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Think also of an upmarket BMW ... garage, how
much an hour would they charge to fix a car??

 

$145/hour.  Trust me.




Brian R.
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So who's worth more, a guy who programmes a bit of top end design software, of the guy who swops out bits on the bosses car!

(obvious really -- the guy who swops out bits on the bosses car!)
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Oh, and an oil change is $175.  Instead I do
it myself in 15 minutes and spend about $40 on a filter and 6.6 liters (7
US quarts) of full synthetic.




Brian R.
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So what your saying is that your time plus parts comes to somewhere above $140.00 an hour while the garage charges you $175.00. By that logic you are only spending $35.00 for them to do the oil change. 😄
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$140 per hour?  I don't think I understand
your math, unless I'm somehow getting $400/hour (15 minutes @ $400/hour = $100 +
$40 in parts = $140).  If that were the case, I wouldn't have ever gone to
school for engineering.  Even if you're right, though, I still have $35 and
can get a cold quarter-barrel of beer with it.

 

Also consider the aggravation that is caused by
letting the high school dropouts at a Jiffy Lube, for example, change your
oil.  They jack your oil filter down so tightly that you need to
hammer the proverbial flat-head screwdriver through it in order to generate
enough torque to remove it, and your drain plug was tightened with an
impact wrench at its highest torque setting.  You spend an hour and bloody
four knuckles just getting stuff loose.  I'll do it myself, thank you very
much. \8^D




Brian R.
Iwaskewycz


style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">CAD Systems
Manager


style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">
href="http://www.corefurnace.com">Core Furnace Systems

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