Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

Manufacturing engineers occupy that unique corporate position where they understand both theory and reality, making them dangerous witnesses when management decides to ignore physics in favor of wishful thinking and interdepartmental finger-pointing becomes more important than actual problem-solving.This particular battle started when design engineers decided that a 20% failure rate must obviously trace back to the testing station, because blami…