Posts Tagged ‘engineering’
I will tell anyone within the sound of my voice that businesses fail for reasons just like the reasons engineered systems fail. That’s a point hard to get across because nobody understands engineering except engineers. LOL
But here’s the short, loaded answer about how failure works:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth [...]
You have a product. You want to sell it. But before you sell it, you have to produce it. And the fact is, that just about anything we can dream we can manufacture – if we’re willing to pay enough. So manufacturability really is a product’s ability to be realized for a price we’re willing [...]
The picture you see here is of a girly pocketknife, shown to me by a teenage barista at the local Starbucks. It was interesting because of the contents I’d not before seen in a pocketknife, and which I think are visible here:
Tom Ingram had this picture of a steam drum on his Facebook, and I latched on to it because I felt his explanation of the picture was so simple:
Inside of a steam drum. De-mister trays on the side walls and de-mister pads on the roof. All boilers have steam drums, no matter what fuel they [...]
I’m the world’s foremost expert on “Engineer as Hero” movies. Which I guess to most people is like knowing the composition of lint.
What I’m talking about are the movies where engineers are prominent in some way or other. I’ve seen more than 120 of these films, and I’m sure most of them [...]
I’ve been in the classroom for a couple years, teaching high-school math. One thing I can say: nearly every kid I’ve had in class hates it. (A fair number of them hate me, but that could actually be cause-and-effect. It might not be personal. Might.) When you hate something, you tend not to focus on [...]
Once upon a time, engineers in my field of specialization used a little doodad called a Spirule to create a root locus. Here’s a description of this gizmo, taken from spirule.com – there is a Web site for everything, right?
The Spirule is a plastic device which permits rapid addition of angles or multiplication of lengths [...]
No doubt about it: the ability to make assumptions that will simplify an analysis is critical to a business plan. No doubt about this either: nobody knows more about how to generate these assumptions than engineers. This is a reason – as if you need one – to recognize that any small business [...]
This post is sponsored by designnotes.com, “what electronic hobby stores used to be.”
When I use the term “sanity check,” I’m talking about a test that can be performed quickly and cost-effectively, and that gives a result that, although not exhaustive, can be trusted to answer a basic question. A question like “will this thing [...]
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