• Question: Do you make thing and that or just plan them and that? ❤

    Asked by Pigeon lady to Andres, Andy, Emma, Shahil, Sheryl, Zoe on 10 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Andy Woods

      Andy Woods answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      I have made things. We tend to make things in software so we don’t necessarily have physical things to look at.

      Because what we do is so complex we have specialists for things.

      Research and Development research new ideas and create new prodcust including designing and prototyping them.

      Design look at the prodcuts and configure them so they can do what we need them to do for a particular project.

      Manufacture build all the equipment that Design have drawn and configured.

      Installation put the equipment on the trackside and build anything that needs buidling like gantries and concrete

      Test then make sure the equipment has been built properly and works right.

      Project Engineers and Systems Engineers help all the people above co-ordinate and make sure it is done on time and budget.

    • Photo: Andres Rivero

      Andres Rivero answered on 12 Mar 2017:

      Hi Pigeon lady,

      Yes, I do both. I design, analyse, do all the planning and then go to the lab and manufacture it. It is very fun to stay involved in every part of making something!

      Andres

    • Photo: Sheryl Williams

      Sheryl Williams answered on 12 Mar 2017:

      Hi Pigeon lady,

      I am luck that i get to work on all the stage in the project ( design, create, build and test). some parts i love and is very good at some i am still learning.
      I would say i am best at designing.

      Sheryl

    • Photo: Emma Ryan

      Emma Ryan answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      Dear Pigeon Lady,

      I do both! I have a lot of freedom in my job because I do research and most of the things I look at, no one has ever done before.

      I have to come up with the experiments myself – I don’t have instructions or teachers telling me what to do. This means that experiments can go wrong sometimes because I haven’t planned them properly. I learn from my mistakes, though!

      For example, I plan a design. I come up with the size of the part and how the robot is going to move to make the part and the settings (so the speed of the robot and how hot the torch is goign to be to melt the wire). I then use my design to make the part. Finally, I test my part. I look at its strength and what material it’s made out of to see how good the part is.

      Would you rather make things or plan them?

      Emma.

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