My old foreman told me to always run the first part slow, no matter what

This was back in 2012 at the shop in Dayton. He said, 'Kid, if you rush the prove-out, you'll rush to the scrap bin.' I was young and thought I knew better, trying to shave minutes off a run of 50 aluminum brackets. I skipped his advice once, ran the program at full feed, and wrecked a $400 piece of stock because I missed a tool offset by a few thou. He was right. That one crash taught me more than a month of smooth runs. Anyone else have a piece of old-school advice that turned out to be gold?

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uma_martinez19d ago

Actually, I'd say that crash taught you more than a year of smooth runs.

eva46818d ago

Totally agree with @uma_martinez on that. My biggest project failure forced me to learn how to really test my code, not just hope it worked. I started writing smaller checks before building the whole thing. That one messy crash showed me where my planning always fell short, way more than all the easy wins did.

casey_ramirez3518d ago

Failures build better habits than success ever could.