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In Reply to: RE: I Went to Phil at Cimmaron Technology... posted by Tony Lauck on January 27, 2012 at 10:47:18:
"a large kit manufacturer"...
Heathkit I suppose, Eico and Knight were much smaller. I miss the days when a lot of audio stuff were kits. I still have the last one I did, an HK Citation 12.
I learned about "value engineering" early on when I worked for an outfit that almost "Muntz'ed" the designs. It was a good experience that served me well the rest of my career. It's really just a philosophical thing and the only hope was to get to where you could justify every part if asked. Pretty quick it just became ingrained. And it never went away, if an engineer can't say why a part is present and why the particular one used makes the most sense then he doesn't really have a handle on the design.
The key is that the product specifications need to be relevant. If they aren't you get the sort of problems that get a lot of press here on AA: The device meets Specs. but doesn't sound very good unless modified. Just throwing hyper-expensive parts at an extant design is hardly an optimum answer for production but may be for a user since his volume is next door to zero. If we had "good" Specs. in the first place then the design engineer would hopefully have implemented it providing the requisite performance while minimizing expensive parts. In general the best designs are those that deliver the goods while minimizing component sensitivity and cost as far as possible, but not...
Rick
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- RE: I Went to Phil at Cimmaron Technology... - rick_m 14:12:09 01/27/12 (2)
- RE: I Went to Phil at Cimmaron Technology... - Bob_C 17:56:36 01/27/12 (0)
- RE: I Went to Phil at Cimmaron Technology... - Tony Lauck 14:33:42 01/27/12 (0)
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