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Article #1060Re: Globalisation, electronics waste disposal and the electronics servicing industry.
From: Rudolf Ladyzhenskii
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:49
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:49
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> Quite frankly, I don't know how anyone can make a living out consumer > gear these days. There is a lot of high end stuff out there. Audio systems, large TVs, cameras... > I guess I contribute to this problem, both from a > consumer and designer point of view. If I buy something I like it to > be cheap. I am not going to pay 10K for a tv when I can get one for > 1K. I would like to get it cheap too, but I would also like to get something of a good quality and I am prepared to pay more. In the end, you get what you paid for. > Likewise when I design something I don;t care about servicing and > lifetime, I just care about maximising profit and minimising cost. > Thats how (and why) I get payed. I am a design engineer myself. Your attitude is not quite right. It is all depends on what you are desihning. Making it cheap -- yes, but at what cost? Make the quality suffer? Good strategy on a short term, but will bite you in teh long term. Serviceability? It does not cost much to make it easier to service. And it makes it easier for yourself to diagnose faults easier when unit comes back faulty and engineer has to troubleshoot it. Generaly, I would design something to last and be easy maintainable as much as budget allow. Rudolf
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