Foolproof is Not an F-bomb

Posted by stephens on Apr 19, 2010 in Engineering Decisions, Rants | 0 comments

I am always amused when smart people behave irrationally. A few years ago, (judging from my picture in the articles, it has been more like a few decades) I wrote two articles about foolproofing practices in dies: Foolproofing Dies Part 1 and Foolproofing Dies Part 2. Then came the phone calls and emails. “It is not politically correct to call people...

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The Point

Posted by stephens on Mar 10, 2010 in Engineering Decisions, Rants | 0 comments

I continue to be amazed at how some highly educated people miss the point. Case in point: I had a customer that was experiencing splitting on a stamping. Certain coils would run fine. Others would have 90%+ failure. I get their process data and run a formability simulation. The result? A good stamping. No risk of failure. I then ask for tool architecture data....

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