Question for you guys who work for yourselves or for companies as programmers:
What is the process by which your customers convey to you the information necessary to complete a job from start to finish? Do you just show up, sit down with them and they hand you a book of their required specs and you just go from there? Or is there lots of discussion between you and those responsible for the plant? And who exactly is in charge of determining what specs are necessary for the machinery, is it plant technicians, maintenance? Or is it someone higher up, engineers who designed the plant layout maybe? Do they usually give you documentation directly from the machine designers/builders to work from or is there a lot more involved documentation? And what kind of documentation, do you get more technical docs like function charts and wiring diagrams, or what exactly?
If you could explain from your experience how the process usually goes, in what order with whom and what docs that would be great, as no One has ever really explained to me the bigger picture of how all of this stuff comes together.
Thanks!
What is the process by which your customers convey to you the information necessary to complete a job from start to finish? Do you just show up, sit down with them and they hand you a book of their required specs and you just go from there? Or is there lots of discussion between you and those responsible for the plant? And who exactly is in charge of determining what specs are necessary for the machinery, is it plant technicians, maintenance? Or is it someone higher up, engineers who designed the plant layout maybe? Do they usually give you documentation directly from the machine designers/builders to work from or is there a lot more involved documentation? And what kind of documentation, do you get more technical docs like function charts and wiring diagrams, or what exactly?
If you could explain from your experience how the process usually goes, in what order with whom and what docs that would be great, as no One has ever really explained to me the bigger picture of how all of this stuff comes together.
Thanks!