Trainer and examiner, after the foreman qualification
Today
on request
Practice
Control cabinet building · Electrical design · Plant engineering
Years
since 2020
Tools so far
EPLAN Electric P8 · SIMATIC S7-1500 and TIA Portal
Sketrix is not the idea of someone who likes software. It is the idea
of someone who found the existing tool too expensive, too bloated and
on the wrong machine.
Over 200,000 lines, next to a full-time job and a family. That sounds
hard to believe, so here is the explanation: the building does not
happen at the Mac.
It happens from my phone. An AI workshop keeps going even when I am
not sitting in front of it. The Mac is not the building site, the Mac
is the workbench: that is where I check whether what was built holds
up in the real program.
The system runs as long as it is allowed to run. I read along, I
decide, I sign it off. Whatever fails the check at the Mac goes back.
Martin — decides, reads along, signs off
The rulebook—what every single step has to comply with
The watchdogs—they raise a hand before anything counts as done
The hands—they build, they write, they check the work
The Mac—the test bench, where everything has to prove itself
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What went wrong
The interface
Botched it twice. I built it myself instead of taking what Apple ships. Now it is being planned again from scratch — chapter by chapter.
The speed
I left a serious performance problem alone for far too long. In the end it cost me more time than fixing it right away would have.
The foundation
I trusted a machine blindly. A second one later took apart what came out of it. I have been repairing that for over a month now, package by package.
This is here because it belongs here. Anyone who wants to know how far
Sketrix has come should also know where I went off course — that is
in Where things stand.
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