Someday

Posted by stephens on Aug 3, 2009 in Rants | 0 comments

I stumbled across a news post today by clicking on a link that read “Manufacturing Takes Big Jump”. So, I click it. Takes me to an article titled “Manufacturing Index Signals Growth Soon“. Define “soon”. Unemployment is up. Bankruptcies are up. Federal tax revenues are down. When the number of manufacturers go down, but the...

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Can’t Fix Stupid

Posted by stephens on Jul 14, 2009 in Engineering Decisions, Events, Rants | 0 comments

I was involved with a formability analysis project recently. Here are the facts: The automotive OEM had performed incremental simulations on eight stampings; The Tier One die shop sent out three RFQ packages to three Tier Two die shops; The Tier One die shop requested one-step simulations from each Tier Two shop. This makes no sense. It is economically...

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