Engineering Investigations
Ravender Ajmani
1/24/2012 11:07 AM EST
Problem with a controller PCB causes significant yield loss at an off-shore drive assembly plant and Ravinder is sent in to investigate...
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Sanjib.Acharya
If the manufacturer has not informed the change to a die-shrink part, I guess the chip ...
Dwight Bues
1/19/2012 3:01 PM EST
Dwight has a story from his academic years and work done at a company that "built just about anything."
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zeeglen
The title "Wire we fixing this?" reminds me of the cable manufacturer guy who told his wife he had ...
john linstrom
1/18/2012 4:44 PM EST
Problems with the human-machine interface on a Korean drilling platform have the users stumped ... until they call in the engineer, of course.
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sharps_eng
I recently used fibre on a hi-rel project (had a simple light/dark relay logoc link) and was ...
John Dunn
1/11/2012 3:01 PM EST
Sometimes it's necessary to resort to a bit of stealth work to preserve your reputation...
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jlinstrom
sounds like a 'Pearl Harbor file" to me - another tip they don't teach you in Engr. school. Grad ...
Dwight Bues
12/27/2011 3:32 PM EST
A shocking development while dangling 80 feet off the ground. Oh my!
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sharps_eng
I hope that these old-time stories have some power to wake up people 'on active service'. The safety ...
Dwight Bues
11/14/2011 10:16 AM EST
One of the many tasks I have had as a Hardware and Software Engineer is troubleshooting unintended consequences of design decisions made many years previously. Sometimes the decision was made by others, sometimes I throw a wrench in the gears all by myself.
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Things that go "BOOM" (in the daytime)
Dwight Bues
11/1/2011 3:53 PM EDT
One visit to a hydro plant takes the entire Southwest Virginia Power Company offline...go Sparky!
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Sanjib.Acharya
@Dwight, I think more than you your buddy should have been knowm as "Sparky". :) I think "BOOM" ...
The SED (Someone Else's Design) Problem
Dwight Bues
10/24/2011 10:31 AM EDT
A famous comedian said, "I hate it when that happens!" That phrase got used every time I had to decipher, debug, or improve on Someone Else's Design.
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zeeglen
There was an old engineering semi-joke "If it was difficult to design, it should be difficult to ...
Lights aren't so bright (literally and figuratively)
Taro Deneve
10/10/2011 11:52 AM EDT
Confusing symptoms and misleading markings lead to a lengthy fault finding process for what turned out to be a simple problem.
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Resistor_Smoker
The car was a Daihatsu Charade, a 1990 model. The lights did work by switching the ground ...
Audio transport yields mixed success
Dwight Bues
8/30/2011 9:01 AM EDT
In one of my many stints of developing electronic gizmos as a contractor for the government, I was asked to build a transport device that would take in analog audio, transport it a distance, and then output it in a proprietary digital link format.
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ReneCardenas
Good article, and comes as no surprize that anything that has to be procured with more than a simple ...
