I like breaking software - always have done. Mind you I swear like a blue streak when I find out how lousy it is. Who programs so you can't cut and paste into a text box - or uses F2 as the delete key?
I like that attitude, John. I wrote test procedures at Microdyne, as well as built test fixtures. I wrote test software for the few automated test fixtures. I worked with Purchasing, Design, Assembly, our in house Cal Lab, or whoever was involved with the problem area to fix the problem, TODAY. I qualified new components and removed some long time OEMs from the supply chain. My official title was "Production Test tech" but that didn't stop me from doing whatever was needed to make sure our products were built right, and shipped on time. I faced down the new head of "Quality control" when the newest power supply vendor had severe quality problems. What they shipped looked nothing like the samples that were qualified for production. He wanted to wait from six months, to a full year to see "If it was a real problem". I told him to stay in his office, and dragged the head of production, the manufacturing engineers and the division president into the fight and got an immediate decision to return the badly built supplies to the OEM.
He didn't like me after that, but his plan to wait could have put us out of business. They fired him a few months later, after it became obvious that he was only concerned with the paperwork, and that it wqas ISO 9001 compliant.
We had already taken a quality hit from a high failure rate on Vicor dual output supplies built with their VI-260-IY modules for dual 5 VDC
50 W outputs and VI-261-IY modules for dual 12 VDC 50 W outputs. $20,000 radios still in warranty, and just out of warranty were having lots of problems, all wich were traced back to their crappy modules and whole power supplies.I really miss that kind of work. 99% of the time it was a simple fix, and everyone was happy, but there is always that 1% where someone refuses to fix a problem.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
Smile when you make those "Mikey" comments! There ARE things "Mickey" won't do. :)
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
A good test engineer doesn't have to BREAK anything. He just documents the problems as they happen. If he's REALLY good, he hands the engieer a list of fixes (with part numbers), instead of a list of bugs.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
Sorreee! I know, Mikey doesn't do donkeys. ;-)
-- Keith
I wonder what a M-72 would do to a donkey? It was made to blow the tread off of a tank...
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
You have that right. And when the company/division finds one they will do damn well to hang onto her/him. (and break anyone who stands in the way)
-- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
Michael, I asked you a question about this in a new thread, "problems with Vicor VI-200 dc-dc modules?"
Sorry, I haven't been on line every day lately.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
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