nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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 Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: Hired wire-slingers |
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| Quote: | >##PS: Again this was given to me (after I paid big money to have the panel
>built), but I have access to the avionics that I need via an essential
>avionics bus so I have been living very happily with what he provided
>because I understand the system.
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The task of selecting a panel builder is two-fold. Unfortunately,
features that drive most buy-decisions are appearance (craftsmanship),
and experience (built a lot of panels). The the seven-step
process I described earlier goes to the MOST important component
of the buy-decision process . . . and is seldom offered by some
of the most skilled builders.
This is why the most successful airplane companies had
good engineers that teamed with equally good craftsmen
that were both free to continuously improve upon the
best we know how to do. I always had a excellent relationship
with the folks in the factory. I hold their skills
in high regard . . . I've worked on those lines too.
But corporate management is moving from self-serving
entrepreneurs to stockholder-serving bankers. Product
quality and capability is being wrenched from the
control of designers and craftsmen and replaced with
process and control dictates (ISO, FAR, EPA, etc).
The result is predictable and inevitable. The best
we know how to do is no longer represented by the
folks who understood and built airplanes most of us
learned to fly in. The best we know how to do is
now in your basements and garages.
Fortunately, there are many skilled craftsmen from
the TC aircraft world who are supporting OBAM aircraft
. . . but their skills and understanding as
designers are carry-overs from their experience
in the TC aircraft world. Great amounts of
money CAN buy great amounts of mediocre work product.
This is avoided when a team of artful designers AND craftsmen
filter the activity through the Seven Steps.
You are all program managers now . . . managers
who have to design, craft, do make-buy decisions and
ultimately climb into and fly the work product.
While "caveat emptor" was mostly applied to the exchange
of real estate, it's no less applicable here.
Bob . . .
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( . . . a long habit of not thinking )
( a thing wrong, gives it a superficial )
( appearance of being right . . . )
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( -Thomas Paine 1776- )
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