The Factory

Having complained for the past year about learning Visual Basic at school, an ancient language, I was rather surprised when I went to my uncle’s factory today and found that every system was programmed in Visual Basic. The checks, datalogging, even the servers were all done in Visual Basic.

It was really interesting, I saw some of the production lines for the EGRs, and some of the electrical stuff including a clock and an engine controller. They used a CAD program called Pro/ENGINEER, which was very similar to Pro/DESKTOP, which we are used to at school, (not surprising since they are made by the same people) but significantly more powerful.

The monsoon is crazy; it’s permanently wet outside, and getting around places is very messy. It’s causing traffic to get really bad, and so my trip up to Sitla is unfortunately delayed until Thursday.

Oh. I forgot to mention, I’m going to be working with an NGO called CHIRAG in the north of India for a few weeks. It should be a very interesting experience.

This post has a lot of links in it. Here’s the last one: photos of the factory.