A good debate is something that we are missing on this list. It's understandable that those that cowardly use the list for their own benefit but remain anonymous don't pipe up (or, for that matter. don't financially support the site), but a good fight every now and then is good for the list.
Debating can mean that one adopts a viewpoint in order to further discussion.
I assume that many readers are using aliases so that their real identity is not known.
My assumption in starting this site was that individuals would not be afraid to make their thoughts known. As there are people here that are working on some "secret stuff", I can understand that. But 423 lurkers I have to wonder about.
Paul
> >My debate position is that qualified individuals are being replaced with
> >software that can do the same job for the same, or less cost.
> How's this? Qualified individuals are supposedly being replaced by
> software that management imagines, God knows why, can actually do the
> same job. Based on a number of observations, I suspect such management
> imagines that documents, drawings and reports, are the project
> deliverables. Systems which produce documents faster are therefore more
> productive, so the designers go and the software comes in.
>
> In fact he design is the deliverable, and the documents only communicate
> the design. If the design is actually mediocre, but the doc package is
> delivered at less cost, maybe engineering management never hears about it
> and goes on their way thinking they're more productive and any problems
> are poor manufacturing, shoddy materials or corner cutting by
> beancounters. That's a good reason to ask the original question--do the
> tools actually improve the design or simply let engineering departments
> have lower budgets?
>
> Interesting that there was no answer to my question. Do none of thge 500+
> participants on this list really know if they're doing better work with
> computer aided engineering tools? Does anyone care?
Received on Sun Jan 12 06:25:00 2003
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