18 Jul
2011
18 Jul
'11
2:08 p.m.
We implemented his work, tested it, paid him for it, and the customer
made the choice. His work was not dumped, since we did verify the
solution. The customer kept both solutions and implemented the brute
force one for all customers. The one who requested that we come up with
the balance solution did get the unit and kept it.
In a case where only you only make hundreds of pieces, it usually is
cheaper to add some sand, than to have to scrap an entire design and do
what we did. If they had done the design from scratch, I think the
balance design could have won, but you were dealing with a situation
where there ware a lot of installations who didn't care about the extra
weight issue, etc.
They may well have used the solution for other similar situations, but
they didn't have to buy anything from us or from our physicist friend.
And he was glad to have the assignment.
If we had not employed him, the instant case we were trying to solve
which involved an installation with a raised floor and other reasons not
to want a bunch of ballast added to their print stands was solved.
Jim
On 7/18/2011 11:06 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
So in other words you employed a physicist, but
didn't actually make use
of the work he did.