<VV> Good quote for the day! - A bit of Corvair

[Dave Keillor]

Back in the mid to late 80s, I spent four years in Japan analyzing their
development and manufacturing processes (computers and electronics).  We
came up with a catch phrase to describe the processes: "Good enough is
better than best".  And, yes, I'm guilty of the perfectionist approach to
my Corvair projects.

Dave Keillor -- former design engineer

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, <Sethracer at aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection  is
> demoralizing."
>
>
> --Harriet Braiker,
> American psychologist and  writer
>
> Also expressed as: "Better" is the enemy of "good-enough".
>
> It has often struck me, as I have worked on my Corvairs, and my  other
> cars, that there are things that could have been built better than they
>  were
> actually assembled and delivered. But then I look at my own projects  and
> note
> that, the planning and incorporation of new ideas can often  cause a
> project to drag on and on, and not get completed! There is a famous
>  cartoon that
> has been posted on the wall of many a Manufacturing office. It  shows an
> older Engineering design/Mechanical drawing table, with a dead engineer
> sprawled across it, and a man standing behind him with a smoking gun. The
>  caption
> says:
>
>  "There comes a time when you have to shoot the engineers  and begin
> production!"
>
> At some point, Ed Cole must have walked into the Chevy  Engineering
> offices, shot the engineers (Virtually, of course!) and ordered the  1960
> Corvair
> into production.
>
> Seth Emerson - former Manufacturing engineer
>
>