Never liked the government telling us how to do things. However, as you say,
there was order and chaos was minimized. We had guidance from "above" if you
will. The best thing was that it was based on some pretty good stuff arrived
at through careful studies yielding rather uniform, SPECIFIC information
(500 + or - 5 degrees for wave soldering as an example).

One can only speculate whether the studies, and the information derived and
presented from them, would hold up today - in such a complex design and
manufacturing environment. Probably it would have and DFM/CE would be alive
and well. Then, the complex situations we now face may not have turned out
so. Of course, many of the questions on this forum would have related to
what something or some paragraph meant instead of how you do this to that.

Many large corporations took up the pursuit. The HP's, IBM's, Nortel's, and
more, developed their versions of 2000. Some of them worked but not without
mis-interpretation and some ego bruising. Many versions are not similar,
however.

Yes, our moon is moving away. As the MoonMan, this worries me a bit but if
headed for the sun, I'll be getting off soon. There's chaos in the universe,
from my cold, gray perch but, from much more distance, there is order in it?
Really beyond my scope. Need a new standard for that.

MoonMan

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