Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
Anyone who has ever worked in any kind of manufacturing knows about this tension between the design side and the manufacturing side of a product. The same tension exists between architects and engineers, for example; Just because you can dream it up does mean it can be built.
There is usually an easy test for me for a design engineer: if they understand the difference between runout and concentricity. I know what I am working with in the first few minutes, usually.