I think the tools only aid the designer in the process and during the progress
of designing. They are not intended to replace the designer. I think if you ask
the guy who made the software, you will have the answer. Else Michael Jackson
will be able to file his own income tax return. Well, he won't. Education
prepares one to approach the problem in an organized way and that's the long and
short of it.
Software does the same, no more save to speed up the process with a few cross
checks. Salesmen seem to have made tremendous progress and there are plenty of
money oriented managements ready to fall for "Fire the Man and Get the Software
In" bullshit. If these guys are ready to take medicines prescribed by software,
I will eat grass.
Thanks for bringing this up and regards,
Rajendra Bajikar.
Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:>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?
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