2/ You're building a kitchen blender. It has a motor, a gasket, and bearings. How do you, the mechE or product manager pick them? You could thumb through catalogs and say "uh, sure, this one looks good". Now you have motor with a 5 year life, bearings with 12 yr, 1 yr gasket
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13/ It is false / incorrect to say that a car that lasts 20 years is flat out better than a car that lasts 10 years. What are the trade offs? Higher cost? Worse maneuverability? Higher maintenance? Different customers want different things. >>>
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14/ This is not a question that engineers can or should solve. Marketing is a sophisticated field, and is NOT just writing ad copy. Marketing involves (a) doing research on what customers want, (b) narrowing down various things that a firm COULD deliver to the things it SHOULD
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15/ Let's say that there's a market for beverage pitchers The market is complex - some people want bulletproof, price-no-object. Others want stylish, and will discard and repurchase every year. Others are poor and want cheap and durable. College students want cheap / stylish
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16/ Every one of these is a potential product. What should our firm, firm X, produce? Firm X must look at it's existing engineers, it's existing product designers, it's existing mfgr facilities and equipment, it's existing sales channels, and then pick 1 or more.
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17/ "your claim is false, but I have no evidence proving it false ; I misused a term, and now you have to come up with a better term" no this type of argument bores mehttps://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1349767404637872129 …
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18/ markets are n-dimensional, and to use the word "best" implies single dimensionality ; like someone who tells me that he's trying to get a touchdown in chess, it just clues me in that I should mute the topic / person https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1349767711535017984 …
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19/ RT <locked> I think you're being a tad unfair here. There definitely is a real thing people are thinking of. In a global economy, everything is now opaque sausage-making. Some people just want a valuable peek into those processes to make good decisions
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20/ eh, I think the marketplace is far more transparent in 2021 than ever before
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Good engineers consider those things to be aspects of being the best product, yes. I don't know many engineers who sincerely want to create machined titanium crappers.
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