Rooster's Revenge

I was involved with a formability analysis project recently. Here are the facts:

1. The automotive OEM had performed incremental simulations on eight stampings;
2. The Tier One die shop sent out three RFQ packages to three Tier Two die shops;
3. The Tier One die shop requested one-step simulations from each Tier Two shop.

This makes no sense. It is economically irrational. Why have three companies replicate each other’s work?

And why settle for lesser quality results from a one-step when the OEM has full blown incremental simulations available for quoting purposes?

It is a quote, not rocket science. Why spend the time and money doing something inferior to something that already exists that closer to reality? Not once, not twice, but three times?

Even the Tier Two company said “you can’t fix stupid”.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxKStPXyn8

Like Ron White says, “stupid is forever”.