PIC's in space

[SteveB]

...Product engineers MUST be allowed to question the buyers, and as taxpayers they should.

<cynicism> But will the managers/VPs/Board allow it? Where is the profit in that? </cynicism>

[Archangel]

<cynicism> But will the managers/VPs/Board allow it? Where is the profit in that? </cynicism>

Sometimes. Probably not in the case of the hammer, an example, that comes to mind, while building a fixture, OEMs engineer spending OPM, specs an threaded insert which our cost was $600 ea in qty 100. No benefit in this unusual insert. Boss told the buyer, buyer told the lead engineer and inserts got changed.