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by euler_angles 2344 days ago
Ordering parts should be a fairly simple thing to get right in comparison to all the other things the system should do. And yet...it failed at that.
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True, I think back with the unnamed project I mentioned, we had an idea to do basic automation for that, a button that would send a message on JMS to another system that would print it for the mechanics or in future pass it over to procurement directly.

But we were stuck moving what was supposed to be just deployment into "actually useful for something" state, including rewriting more and more of the code (because L-M license forbid us from modifying their code...)

Also as someone who has used the system, you're right about all the other functions it does. Or is supposed to do. So thank you for posting.