So I'm really, really busy. Pretty much set up for failure, but we pretty much all are here. Anyhow, I just made my first mistake that I don't see myself getting out of. Remember, I've only been here almost a year.
A few weeks ago, an application engineer and account manager asked me to come up with a better dust cover for a customer. I looked at some of our current ones, read up on a study we did in the past, and hammered out a proposal. At the time, I did ask them to let me know which dust cover they were already using, but they never got back with me and I didn't think much of it, because I thought I made one with the tighter clearance than any of our other covers for this application. I sent them the cross sections (with no dimensions) a few days ago.
They came back and wanted to see the current cross section. So I asked them again which cover they were using. They found out for me and I had the designer make up a cross sectional view. During this, I found out that it has the same clearance as the dust cover I made. WTF. This was a common one too and I had looked at it, but I had it in my head that mine was 25% tighter.
So I just shot off an email to the app. engineer letting him know that the current is equivalent to what I came up with and that it's a pretty darn good dust cover already.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully, he hasn't shown the customer yet, because we're supposed to be meeting with them next week.
Anybody else have a story like this? It'd make me feel better if they did ;p
A few weeks ago, an application engineer and account manager asked me to come up with a better dust cover for a customer. I looked at some of our current ones, read up on a study we did in the past, and hammered out a proposal. At the time, I did ask them to let me know which dust cover they were already using, but they never got back with me and I didn't think much of it, because I thought I made one with the tighter clearance than any of our other covers for this application. I sent them the cross sections (with no dimensions) a few days ago.
They came back and wanted to see the current cross section. So I asked them again which cover they were using. They found out for me and I had the designer make up a cross sectional view. During this, I found out that it has the same clearance as the dust cover I made. WTF. This was a common one too and I had looked at it, but I had it in my head that mine was 25% tighter.
So I just shot off an email to the app. engineer letting him know that the current is equivalent to what I came up with and that it's a pretty darn good dust cover already.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully, he hasn't shown the customer yet, because we're supposed to be meeting with them next week.
Anybody else have a story like this? It'd make me feel better if they did ;p
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