Hot take: Our shop switched from manual layout to 3D modeling for pressure vessel heads. The rework rate went from about 15% to under 2% in a year. Was it the software or just better training?

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But that drop is probably from the training, not the software. New tools force people to learn the right way from scratch. The old manual process was just being done wrong.

wood.zara2mo ago

Wait, you're saying the old way was just wrong? That's wild. So for years, people were doing the whole process badly, and it took a new software to fix it? That feels like a huge oversight. I mean, @nathanwalker, think about the time and money wasted before. Someone should have caught that way sooner with better training, not just a software update.

jordan_webb4911h ago

Deal with this all the time in a kitchen. People think they know the right way to do something, then a new piece of equipment forces everyone to actually read the manual. Suddenly the old shortcuts don't work and the "we've always done it this way" crowd gets exposed. The software just makes you stop and think instead of running on autopilot. That's where the real learning happens. If old training was that good, the new system wouldn't show such a big difference.