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| Clearly you folks slamming the engineers have never worked with one, known one, or even met one...
...and I bet people that gripe about farmers really chap your @$$ too.
Sure, you can have it both ways if you really feel the need to be that way, but you sound pretty silly.
Engineers are not the only party involved in the definition, design, testing, costing, scheduling, and release of a product.
They are given constraints to work with by people elsewhere in the company, such as marketing, parts, legal, regulatory, purchasing, tech, sales, etc.
1. "can only be this big" and/or "can weigh no more than..."
2. "can only cost this much"
3. "can only have X% new parts compared to last year's model"
4. "must be on the market in X months"
5. "must not be in the testing phase more than X months"
6. "must have a proto/demo [or 5 or 6 of them] for the X farm show[s] on X date[s]" ...and it better work like a mature, years-old, perfected design.
7. "must have a unit demo-ing in the next South American wheat crop"
8. "must require little/no/minimal dealer set-up and must have even longer service intervals than the model it replaces"
9. "must work, ergonomically, for 98% of all humans" while incorporating an interface to the latest iPhone, iPad, and a jillion other pieces of electronic junk.
10. "must meet the safety, emissions, and compliance regs of 29 countries"
11. ...and a whole lot more...
The engineer is tasked with a deadline he doesn't set, a budget set by bean counters, a schedule set by greedy marketers who HAVE to be first [never mind BEST], and price constraints set by sales, yet somehow these miracle worker engineers meet the deadlines, within budget, in sync with timelines, with a product that'll sell for a price that makes all the people on the periphery look good and make the bosses a few bucks. And then they put up with Y'all's GRIPING for every detail that isn't just perfect. Meanwhile, sales, marketing, accounting, and purchasing turn their backs because they are busy setting up the NEXT disaster for which they will probably not be accountable.
Regardless, these people in engineering LOVE what they do, will LISTEN if you are reasonable [even if you are NOT...], and really do care about your product experience and your farm's profitability, ESPECIALLY if their employer allows them the time and space and budget to go out and learn about it. Most of them get in the business YOUNG and STAY in it for decades. And the kids they have available for hire... are less apt to be mechanically minded every generation because they weren't raised on farms.... yet another factor beyond their control.
If you haven't met the men and women who pull off this trick year in and year out, DON'T knock them.
In turn, they'll not gripe about the farmers that feed them.
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