The Dog Days of summer… a perfect time to take a break from the serious User Group demos and presentations. A perfect time to spend a hot evening with a cold beer and mingle with the friends and colleagues you’ve met throughout the year.
That’s exactly what the Boston Avid User Group did last week. With a small threat of isolated thunder storms, a crowd of about 50 made their way to the Avid Tewksbury headquarters for a BBQ. Yes there was a brief rain shower as we took cover under the tent for about 15 minutes. The rain did make the 90+ degrees a bit cooler. The Boston User Group members were joined by 15 or so Avid employees from various departments… SQA, support, engineering, product marketing, tech pubs, online marketing, field marketing, sales, engineering, operations and manufacturing.
We all enjoyed burgers, hotdogs, caesar salad, pasta salad, corn on the cob etc. while we mingled and discussed future user group meetings, what others were up to, and had the opportunity to discuss the future of products and any issues or concerns with Avid Product Designers and managers.
Several attendees had the opportunity to tour the manufacturing facility. Ed Weingartner, Director of Manufacturing operation, gave the tour.
Ed showed the factory commissioning room – This room was built so we could offer a customer the service of having the opportunity to see their system up and running executing their workflow.
Next were the environmental test chambers where Avid products are put through some very stressful temperature, shock, and vibration testing to be sure we have a solid enterprise product.
Then the on going reliability test area where the Quality group sets up a number of different Avid products and runs them 7 by 24 hours for 30 days.