On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:13:31 -0800, nospambob wrote:

Prime had control of the drawing package and made multitudes of
changes that I associated with being able to charge the Dept of Navy.
What I cited is what I witnessed working for the Dept of Navy as an
EE.

Had to have been a reason other than cost savings for removing that
component. Maybe obsolescence or other considerations. Maybe the need to
pre-screen the parts may have resulted in some cost savings (i.e, the part
itself was really a higher cost than a few tenths of a cent), or the cost
of installation, logistics of being able to reduce part count. Even though
the prime may have had control of the drawing package, doesn't the
procurring agency have right of refusal for design changes?





On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:33:44 -0700, Mark & Juanita
wrote:

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:11:44 -0800, nospambob 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
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")


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