Trex
Well-known member
Ok folks I just got a another contract 
to build another item of machinery so I will be on my way out of here again soon (I can hear the sighs of relief from you all here now ). But the job mainly starts in couple of weeks so you will have to put up with me for just a little bit more. What was that? :? Was that a groan I heard.
But before I go I would like to talk about what it is like to be an engineer so you can try to look at it from a different perspective at what Mitsubishi engineers have to contend with when they designed and constructed the PHEV.
But I will make this brief ( more sighs of relief ) and keep it to just couple of main points for me.
1. I have to keep within the budget the customer can afford. My machinery can be, just lets say, 99% perfect (nothing will be 100% IMO as someone will always find fault) but no one could afford it. So I have to compromise. You want something made better from me you will have to pay for it.
2. As a follow on from 1. I try to aim as high has I can push myself to produce reliable and productive machinery but trying to aim for that 100% perfection can actually reduce reliability and increase maintenance costs using some of the better current technology.
So what do I do? :?
Use that better but less reliable technology to try for that slightly increased production and then have to put up people ringing me and whinging about what a piece of crap I have made because it always breaks down.
Or go with reliability and then have them ring me later whinging " You could have used ........ in your machine. I would have because I am so much smarter than you." :roll:
Well I go for reliability and I think Mitsubishi do as well. The ones I have owned have so far proved very reliable.
There are less phone calls if the bloody machine works the majority of the time than people ringing and whinging about wanting slightly increased production or .........., insert your own words there, IMHO.
If I had to think hard about it I think the machinery I design, and help build, are probably only 80 to 85% "perfect" at that moment in time (remember technology does get better and more reliable) IMO. Please note that In My Opinion I wrote there. Chasing that last 15 to 20% would be very expensive, I think, and or decrease the reliability too much below my standards.
So I am probably more forgiving of the shortcomings of the PHEV than some others around here. :lol: But this is a product of my circumstances. I try to look at it from both sides and I always want to build better machinery as would Mitsubishi I think. So I always, when talking to customers or my fellow workers, listen to their suggestions.
But as an design engineer I can assure you we have thought about those things, before it was brought to our attention, in the design of the product in the MAJORITY of cases.
After all that is what we being paid to do as an engineer and we are just trying to do our jobs as best we can.
So please try to look at it from our side as an lowly engineer as well. We cannot win and we seldom get any praise but we had a go and built the bloody thing anyway.
Regards Trex.
ps I still think Mitsubishi have done a great job from an engineering viewpoint with the PHEV and my family love it as well from a more consumer viewpoint.
to build another item of machinery so I will be on my way out of here again soon (I can hear the sighs of relief from you all here now ). But the job mainly starts in couple of weeks so you will have to put up with me for just a little bit more. What was that? :? Was that a groan I heard. But before I go I would like to talk about what it is like to be an engineer so you can try to look at it from a different perspective at what Mitsubishi engineers have to contend with when they designed and constructed the PHEV.
But I will make this brief ( more sighs of relief
) and keep it to just couple of main points for me.1. I have to keep within the budget the customer can afford. My machinery can be, just lets say, 99% perfect (nothing will be 100% IMO as someone will always find fault) but no one could afford it. So I have to compromise. You want something made better from me you will have to pay for it.
2. As a follow on from 1. I try to aim as high has I can push myself to produce reliable and productive machinery but trying to aim for that 100% perfection can actually reduce reliability and increase maintenance costs using some of the better current technology.
So what do I do? :?
Use that better but less reliable technology to try for that slightly increased production and then have to put up people ringing me and whinging about what a piece of crap I have made because it always breaks down.
Or go with reliability and then have them ring me later whinging " You could have used ........ in your machine. I would have because I am so much smarter than you." :roll:
Well I go for reliability and I think Mitsubishi do as well. The ones I have owned have so far proved very reliable.
There are less phone calls if the bloody machine works the majority of the time than people ringing and whinging about wanting slightly increased production or .........., insert your own words there, IMHO.
If I had to think hard about it I think the machinery I design, and help build, are probably only 80 to 85% "perfect" at that moment in time (remember technology does get better and more reliable) IMO. Please note that In My Opinion I wrote there. Chasing that last 15 to 20% would be very expensive, I think, and or decrease the reliability too much below my standards.
So I am probably more forgiving of the shortcomings of the PHEV than some others around here. :lol: But this is a product of my circumstances. I try to look at it from both sides and I always want to build better machinery as would Mitsubishi I think. So I always, when talking to customers or my fellow workers, listen to their suggestions.
But as an design engineer I can assure you we have thought about those things, before it was brought to our attention, in the design of the product in the MAJORITY of cases.
After all that is what we being paid to do as an engineer and we are just trying to do our jobs as best we can.
So please try to look at it from our side as an lowly engineer as well.
We cannot win and we seldom get any praise but we had a go and built the bloody thing anyway.Regards Trex.
ps I still think Mitsubishi have done a great job from an engineering viewpoint with the PHEV and my family love it as well from a more consumer viewpoint.
