Re: job thing, maybe

John Larkin wrote:

One of my engineers left (to go teach in Indonesia or something, one
of those midlife things) and, talking things over, we decided that our
design engineers spend a lot of time on test procedures, test sets,
and writing test programs. If we had some help on those, we could
design more stuff. So instead of looking for a new design engineer, we
might actually prefer a test guy.

An experienced test engineer might be a worthwhile acquisition. However,
I think its a good idea for design engineers to rotate through test
engineering duties. It gives them an awareness of design weaknesses and
provides feedback for process improvement.

Needless to say, one doesn't assign the same engineer to design and test
one product or component.

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