A Short Story for Engineers
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A Short Story for Engineers
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#2Apocryphal?
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#3Every time I hear this story the alleged budget increases
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#4Apocryphal?
Where does it say it is real?
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#5Every time I hear this story the alleged budget increases
I'm sure they spent well over $10k doing it which shows you one of the problems with over-engineered solutions.
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#6Every time I hear this story the alleged budget increases
It’s being inflation adjusted.
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#7Every time I hear this story the alleged budget increases
To be completely honest, I like to think I would go down to where the problem is and have the people dealing with the problem look for a solution first.
If you approach a third party as "a big company" looking for a "solution", you'll just get "a big solution at a bigger price"
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#82017 thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375056
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#9After reading the problem definition, my reaction was: you'd either weigh it and use a solenoid to kick it into a defect box, or you'd use air to knock the empty boxes from the line.
I've seen both methods in use on production lines; so I assume that this story is something made up by someone trying to sell some kind of consultancy service?
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#10Obviously an urban legend, and one of a series of legends in which a menial worker comes up with a simple solution to an apparently complex problem. Snopes has details on some of the others: