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"!

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:52:14 +0100, Juergen Hannappel
wrote:

Mark & Juanita 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")