Re: Warning! I'm gonna whine about what went wrong today in the shop

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:11:44 -0800, nospambob <nospambob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Designer of US Navy ship self defense missile system pulled a diode
>out of a circuit board to save that precious 0.4 cents and that board
>failure rate went from almost zero to an amazing high number. A
>subsidiary of the prime manufacturer operated the repair facilities.
>Unabashed greed! Logistics "Manager" for the prime had a sign on the
>office wall behind his desk reading "We are a profit oriented
>organization"!

Do you have a cite for that? Sounds more like urban legend than reality.
There isn't sufficient volume in defense systems that the savings
accompanying removal of a component like that would even come close to
paying for the cost of the change drawings.

>
>On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:52:14 +0100, Juergen Hannappel
><hannappel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Mark & Juanita <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> Given the current state of engineering and our level of technology, I'd
>>> be inclined to label this as a design flaw. i.e. Double-E who designed
>>
>>Given the incredible prive tag of .4 cents for a protection diode you
>>are sugesting to put the manufacturer out of business by needlessly
>>increased cost?
>>
>>As a big german electronics BORG advertises: "Avarice is randy..."
>>(In german this has at least an alliteration: "Geiz ist Geil")


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