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In Reply to: Thanks Charles posted by Jim Austin on May 2, 2012 at 05:39:08:
Changing an existing design to reduce ongoing manufacturing cost is called "value engineering". In the computer company I used to work for this was often done by engineers working in the Manufacturing organization rather than Engineering. It was necessary to keep a close watch on what these people did, because their focus was primarily on cost.
A friend of mine told me that in the ancient past his father was the purchasing agent for a company that sold audio kits. If his father saw a good buy on a capacitor that had a value close to the one designed by the engineer he might just make a swap. Of course, these were kits, so if the resulting product didn't sound so great, that would be the customer's fault for building the damn thing incorrectly. :-(
Tony Lauck
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