Here is my cut at it: What are your 'pet peeves' or frustrating issues with getting your designs done right? Lack of communication is the biggest problem, lack of process is 2nd. Your company could have the greatest processes, look good on paper but do you really follow what is written? If not then you need to re-write your process because something is wrong. No consistency is a problem. What gets in your way? Politics, company priority, does the entire company share the same priority? That is very important, this causes churn, everyone needs to focus on priority 1. What would make your work easier? Again, a process you actually follow step by step, of course there will be little deviation but shouldn't be to much and the company marching to the same priorities. Steve -----Original Message----- From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brooks,Bill Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:21 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [DC] Conversation topic: Getting your designs done right! OLE_LINK1I have been talking with another designer I know and the topic was..."What type of issues do you encounter in your day to day job that seem to 'get in the way' and prevent your getting your work done correctly or at least with a minimum amount of undue effort? " Personally my issues have been mostly with accurate communications... getting good information properly transferred to me with all the necessary details to build a part or schematic symbol, or a mechanical constraint or part... details...details... the 'devil' always lives in the details... :-) Seems I am always having to ask about something... what about this feature? How much current does this part draw? How much heat needs to be dissipated? Are there optional ways this can me solved... etc.. etc.. What are your 'pet peeves' or frustrating issues with getting your designs done right? What gets in your way? What would make your work easier? What would you like to add or eliminate from the process? What needs adjusting? What would fix the problems? I'm curious to hear other's opinions and thoughts... Best regards, Bill Brooks, CID+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To temporarily stop/(restart) delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To temporarily stop/(restart) delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------