{"id":2797,"date":"2012-05-31T05:38:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T23:25:18","slug":"a-cad-meltdown-trials-of-a-new-cad-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2012\/05\/a-cad-meltdown-trials-of-a-new-cad-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"A CAD Meltdown – Trials of a New CAD Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series The Trials of a New CAD Manager<\/a><\/div>

Trial Five:\u00a0 A CAD Meltdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

A nuclear meltdown is a term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.\u00a0 Accidental damage can happen in CAD also.\u00a0 A meltdown is when the project gets a major derailing, a critical piece of hardware fails at the most inopportune time, software explodes in your face, files become corrupt or people just do not know how to unravel the chaos they may have created.\u00a0 How a CAD Manager reacts under pressure makes or breaks careers.\u00a0 Get it right and you are the hero. Get it wrong and you are the goat.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of this Trial:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned already, there is some failure that happened in the CAD process that has threatened to derail a project deadline.\u00a0 Everyone turns to you first or maybe they come to you after they have tried everything.\u00a0 Either way, you are expected to perform under pressure.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone is looking for you to get this derailed train back on the tracks.<\/p>\n

When this Trial comes your way:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have been here before, but each event has its own set of challenges.\u00a0 You need to act quickly, but also make the best choices.<\/p>\n

First:<\/strong> Stop and think.\u00a0 All others are in some form of panic.\u00a0 Don\u2019t lose your head too.\u00a0 Be methodical and calm.<\/p>\n

Second:<\/strong> Address they effects of the trouble.\u00a0 If a server crashed, get access to the data first, then start figuring out how to get the server back up.\u00a0 Restore files to local machines or another location.\u00a0 Get the data back.\u00a0 If a plotter has broken, find access to another one (if you have redundancy).\u00a0 Find an outsourced option if need be.\u00a0 The priority is to get past the initial event and get things running again.\u00a0 If it is a desktop hardware failure, get the user on another machine and back to work.\u00a0 Don\u2019t spend too much time initially on finding the root or cause of the problem, get things moving again quickly.\u00a0 Get people back to work.\u00a0 Alleviate the biggest fear (we can\u2019t get the job done on time)<\/p>\n

Third:<\/strong> Find the cause of the problem and get it fixed.\u00a0 Once you have the team back at work, you can then turn to getting the \u201creactor back online\u201d.\u00a0 Now you can slow down a little to investigate what happened and why.\u00a0 Most times it will be obvious, but other times you may have to search for the cause.<\/p>\n

If the fix is quicker than finding the cause, then get the fix in place first.\u00a0 Examples would be corrupted files where data is lost.\u00a0 Sometimes fixing a bad file will be slower that just redrawing the data.\u00a0 Users may not like it, but there are times when they can recreate a file faster than you can resurrect it.\u00a0 Most times they can do it faster and they even improve the file or the design in the process.<\/p>\n

Last:<\/strong> Address the long term issues.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say that your plotter keeps going down at the worst times.\u00a0 Address that replacement of a bad piece of hardware close to the time of failure.\u00a0 Memories will be fresh and your budget may get some extra funds.<\/p>\n

All in all, if you keep a cool head and can get people back into production quickly, you can avoid the \u201coverheating\u201d that accompanies a meltdown.<\/p>\n
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This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series The Trials of a New CAD Manager<\/a><\/div>

Trial Five:\u00a0 A CAD Meltdown A nuclear meltdown is a term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.\u00a0 Accidental damage can happen in CAD also.\u00a0 A meltdown is when the project gets a major derailing, a critical piece of hardware fails at the most inopportune time, software explodes in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[71],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","series-trials-of-a-new-cad-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}