Over the years I have seen a wide assortment of 'cost reductions' that came out to the field and actually might have saved Corporate a couple pennies per piece out the door of the factory, but caused so many field problems that whatever savings they thought they realized was vastly overshadowed by the increased field labor costs to fix and refix, modify, readjust and sometimes ultimately remove/replace their fix with a new fix for the fix...
I have more stories.... ;-)
Precisely.