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[JohnRBaker]

I'm posting the link to this item because many of the items in it are the result of 'engineering errors', and in fact, some have been talked about in this forum:

Expensive Mistakes That Cost A Fortune To Fix

https://www.streetinsider.com/magazine/expensive-mistakes-that-cost-businesses-a-fortune/?

Enjoy...

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[TigerGuy]

At least one of those stories is factually inaccurate. I am sure many more include some level of falsehood in them.

 

[IRstuff]

I don't think anyone other than engineers care about the accuracy, because it's not about accuracy; it's about dinging people (engineers) that are given responsibilities that most people can never come close to getting.

TTFN (ta ta for now)
I can do absolutely anything. I'm an expert!

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[dik]

12. Premature Fire Foam Release...

I don't know if it's urban legend, but about 20 years back, I designed a couple of 747 hangars... for fire protection they had sensors that registered UV and IR along with a 'carbon spike' for sensing fires. The sales guy related a story where they had a tray of water to bubble the propane through to show the IR and carbon spike feature. Across the tarmac someone struck up an arc welder... that provided the UV and the sensor triggered the foam monitors, and significantly filled the hangar causing a large financial clean up, significantly more than $100K.

-----*****-----
So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[SWComposites]

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-...20-06-10/hangar-foam-solution-looking-problem

 

[dik]

The project was the first one I'd encountered UV IR with carbon spike alarms... the greatest thing since sliced bread.

-----*****-----
So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[Andries]

The company I worked for did maintenance of military aircraft.
Something went wrong during the night and it was quite a sight next morning to see a row of jet fighters covered in foam with only the vertical stabilisers protruding.

Andries

 

[thebard3]

Expensive mistake #1- Buying a Chevy Vega (directly related to engineering/marketing/management)
Expensive mistake #2- Getting married (not related to engineering/marketing/management)
Expensive mistake #3- Getting married again (related only to being stupid)

Brad Waybright

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

 

[tommy9999]

Getting married can be related to an Engineering lifestyle, though. It's not not related.

Getting there again, well, the success factor of the outcome depends a bit on the other part of the assembly, don't you think? You can't just call yourself stupid. Unless you really did err.

No harm meant, just engineer-like curiosity

 

[cranky108]

Don't you think living is just a series of expensive mistakes, until you get all of them right. It seems that the cost of going off the "best path" is an expensive guard rail. Anything to do with lawyers, bad cars, bad homes, etc, is just plain like throwing money out the window. But you hopefully are wiser for it.

I am now finding that the right sliced bread makes all the difference. Less sodium, better taste of the sandwich contents (instead of only tasting the bread). Ahh, the joys of living beyond your 30's.

 

[dik]

I had a fabulous marriage of 40 years, and my life has been far better for it... Baker's lagline is very appropriate.

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

-----*****-----
So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

And in June, we're going to be celebrating 57 years of marriage.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[dik]

congrats...

-----*****-----
So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[debodine]

CONGRATS JRB! We hit 50 this year so we are chasing you as fast as we can.

 

[1503-44]

Isn't it a bit on the morbid side to call Reading 200 years of disaster histories "fun".
Reminds me of something that Gomez Addams might be doing between running his model railroad train crash simulations down in the cellar. Yeah. OK. A lot like reading this forum.

--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[cranky108]

For some reason people prefer bad news stories, and not good news stories. It seems people are just wired for the negative.

 

[TigerGuy]

We couldn't wait for 50 years, so we celebrated 1/3 century last fall.

Aren't most of these from the: Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement - file?

 

[flight7]

For some reason people prefer bad news stories, and not good news stories. It seems people are just wired for the negative.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Good news is not as interesting as bad news. Ask any TV news director.

 

[JohnRBaker]

As the old newsroom managers always said, "If it bleeds, it leads."

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[1503-44]

Everybody does it. All over the world. Must be some deeply embedded bit of DNA telling us all to learn from that poor f***er's mistake?

--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."