S7Guy
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Terry, it all depends on what you learned and what you are used to. For me (and most of the rest of the world), S5 and S7 are perfectly logical, and it's just a matter of understanding the language.
It's sort of like a foreign language: Until you learn it, it makes no sense.
As for the European way of looking at things, there is definitely something cutural there. From my experience, the Germans build machines that are mechanically almost perfect. They are mechanical marvels. But their software? God, I see some sloppy stuff that I could never get away with over here, and the machines require much more operator input and are less fault tolerant than an equivilent machine programmed here. Then again, I am not called in to look at machines that are running great, so I'm probably exposed only to the bad apples.
It's sort of like a foreign language: Until you learn it, it makes no sense.
As for the European way of looking at things, there is definitely something cutural there. From my experience, the Germans build machines that are mechanically almost perfect. They are mechanical marvels. But their software? God, I see some sloppy stuff that I could never get away with over here, and the machines require much more operator input and are less fault tolerant than an equivilent machine programmed here. Then again, I am not called in to look at machines that are running great, so I'm probably exposed only to the bad apples.