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Posted on 06/29/2019 3:48:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Penny wise pound foolish. That doesn’t even describe the tragedy.
The mind-set of the slick MBA's in charge of major aerospace corporations is that an engineer is an engineer - they are all the same and inter-changeable.
If one doesn't have a love of aviation, he has no business working in aviation.
Pretty much fits ay job, with the exception that in aviation, screw-ups can cost lives.
What a way to wreck a reputation for quality.
Anytime lives and injury are at risk of product failure is bad. Look how many kids die from toys that are not thoroughly tested. But aircraft are the most spectacular example.
Bad engineers who love aviation don’t belong in aviation engineering either.
Pretty much fits ay job, with the exception that in aviation, screw-ups can cost lives.
Actually a case could be made that any job done wrong has the potential of causing great harm, either physically or financially. This harm could be directly or indirectly.
Watching the TV program SECONDS FROM DISASTER illustrates how a series of small acts, oversights, and mistakes leads to disasters.
Should have been my No. 1 caveat. Thanks.
I had a feeling this would turn out to be the cause.
I read the article.
The Indian software companies say they did not work on any software that is currently under investigation.
Heads Up - almost all of Boeing’s engineers in the Seattle metro area are unionized.
Also, I am still not aware of any “close calls” in North America, Europe, or wealthy Asian countries that were caused by the “defective” software.
Where is the loudmouth “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going” crowd?
Accountants should never be put in charge of any company that is not an accounting firm. They have no vision for the actual business, which is the revenue side of things. Instead the only trick they know is cost cutting, even at the expense of revenue.
Working on the revenue side requires spending money and having a vision for where the company needs to go. An accountant can't do either. Any company run by an accountant is at least beginning the death process.
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As a Medical Device Engineer with 40 years of experience designing life sustaining devices, you get what you pay for.
I hired to work on a cardiac device to bridge a patient until a donor heart was available. The engineering staff were all H1-B’s who did not have a grasp of the English language. All design functions were compartmentalized so you did not have a global sense of how the device was suppose to work, just your portion. I quit at the end of the second day.
Accountants should never be put in charge of any company that is not an accounting firm. They have no vision for the actual business, which is the revenue side of things. Instead the only trick they know is cost cutting, even at the expense of revenue.
Example No 1: GM
Have worked for three major defense companies in my 40-year aerospace career - all had that flaw.
It's what happens when one takes the Bible out of the Boardroom - you become unmoored.
Is the CEO of Boeing an accountant?
Boeing has nickled and dimed their suppliers for years, causing many of them to cut their margins to near zero or go out of business.
But the MCAS software is fully in Boeing’s hands, not HCLs.
This is where I saw in the day, they never wanted to spend the capital in the testing end.
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