Comments on: On Honest Engineering Discourse http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ParatrooperJJ http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html/comment-page-1#comment-10687 ParatrooperJJ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:17:27 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html#comment-10687 <p>That's why you do everything verbally and don't write anything down.</p> That’s why you do everything verbally and don’t write anything down.

]]> By: Garble http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html/comment-page-1#comment-10686 Garble Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:26:50 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html#comment-10686 <p>In the automotive field we don't usually call something safe or unsafe. Those are conclusions and value judgments. Design 1 isn't 'safer' it lasted 242% more cycles at peak vehicle loads before cracking was observed. Design 2 wasn't chosen because it only lasted 150 thousand cycles. </p> <p>Brakes are 'safe' or 'unsafe' They stop the vehicle within 30 meters under specific conditions or they stop the vehicle in 60 meters under the same condition. </p> <p><br /> </p> In the automotive field we don’t usually call something safe or unsafe. Those are conclusions and value judgments. Design 1 isn’t ‘safer’ it lasted 242% more cycles at peak vehicle loads before cracking was observed. Design 2 wasn’t chosen because it only lasted 150 thousand cycles.

Brakes are ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ They stop the vehicle within 30 meters under specific conditions or they stop the vehicle in 60 meters under the same condition.

]]> By: dearieme http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html/comment-page-1#comment-10685 dearieme Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:52:36 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html#comment-10685 <p>With chemical plant you do a formal Hazard and Operability study, the whole point of which is to identify worries. You must do those in the US surely?</p> With chemical plant you do a formal Hazard and Operability study, the whole point of which is to identify worries. You must do those in the US surely?

]]> By: Erik The Red http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html/comment-page-1#comment-10684 Erik The Red Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:57:40 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/on-honest-engin.html#comment-10684 <p>I don't know about Engineering (and IANAL), but the legal hack we use in other industries is to have a policy that we follow for [task]. For instance, some companies delete all of the e-mails pertaining to an issue they're going to be sued on because they're just following their old and well-documented e-mail retention policy. So in this case, you'd have a policy that each building design undergoes some sort of 'challenge' by other engineers as a standard part of the development process.</p> I don’t know about Engineering (and IANAL), but the legal hack we use in other industries is to have a policy that we follow for [task]. For instance, some companies delete all of the e-mails pertaining to an issue they’re going to be sued on because they’re just following their old and well-documented e-mail retention policy. So in this case, you’d have a policy that each building design undergoes some sort of ‘challenge’ by other engineers as a standard part of the development process.

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