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This is a hugely interesting read…
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/ff- … -fail/all/
There are a good number of points that relate 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} to our industry as well as many others.
K.
Re: Failure Rates & Product Quality
A very good read, we all see some makes fail and often comment about how cheap and crap they are but the thing I always say to people is a engineer only sees the broken ones, customers don’t call I say it’s working fine.
In reality people often abuse machines, overloading and incorrect program’s.
No mater how good its built something will fail.
Re: Failure Rates & Product Quality
There are a lot of egos and cover ups going on.
A brand recently changed a PCB design for no reason other than development (Someone justifying there job) problem is the replacement failed horrendously and the 3 next attempts also failed, causing quite a few upset peeps. In the logical world the design should have reverted back to the original design that had no reliability issues.
And I’m currently at my desk trying to prove a conversation that happened with a Higher authority who now has no knowledge of the conversation or can explain his secretary actions who I had to speak to and get passed and put through to him, she remembers it up until recently, now she’s back pedaling.
Big businesses are full of idiots trying to cover there backs, The Peter Principle is very much alive in our industry, its based on the theory that people in authority reach a level in which they are a measure of there own incompetence, they reach a level where they cannot cope, they where brilliant at a lower level, but then reach beyond their capabilities, they cannot cope and place faith in there lower managers to make them look good.
One very good reason to become Self Employed.
Re: Failure Rates & Product Quality
spot on lee , yes the big national,s that ive worked for had there fair share of clueless people in middle/top management positions ,
i went from self employed to being employed and was totally gobsmacked when i encountered these people . what i couldnt work out was how they managed to get their ?one of the bigger cos i worked for had countless managers earning 5-60k p/a hiding in call centers trying to justify there existence.
needless to say im self employed again
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