3.4 dohc o2 sensor and spark plugs

[Len Sabatine]

     Yep , often it's easy to offend others when you don't sugar coat your
     words and say it like it is. One more thing to add in all fairness;
     The bean counters can torpedo an engineers most disciplined offering,
     only to eat the fixes later with a massive recall. Happens quite often ,
     with much greater expense than was pared from budget.
     Len

>On Wed, 2 May 2001, Len Sabatine wrote:
>
> >          Many design engineers should [ as part of their work] . be
> > obligated to
> >          disassemble and reassemble their final designs . In many 
> instances
> > , different
> >          groups do not interact with one and another, thus the nightmares
> > occur in
> >        performing  the field service work.
> >          Len
> >
>The problem is, as I see it, designers aren't hands-on guys.  They don't
>like getting their hands dirty.  They consider that stuff to be beneath
>them.  I've heard more than one of my fellow engineers say something to
>the effect of "Get dirty?  But I went to school so I wouldn't HAVE to get
>dirty!"  They don't know what to make of guys like me, being essentially
>degreed shop rats.
>
>The problem this causes is that the stuff these wonderful clean-handed
>designers produce doesn't suit the needs of the people that have to build
>the product, much less for the maintenance/repair tech that has to keep
>the thing running.
>
>I've caught myself falling into the same trap.. I'll build a machine and
>program the operator interface for what *I* think would get the job done
>best, only to run the machine by myself for a while and discover how
>ill-prepared the process really is.  The operators can't always tell me
>when I've made their life difficult, because they don't necessarily know
>there's another way of doing something.
>
>Sorry for rambling, and I hope I haven't offended too many designers in
>the crowd.  It just irks me to see how far the ones I'm acquainted with
>have distanced themselves from the processes they're in charge of!
>
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