Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:



.....you don't want the engineers who have to know the
> temperature at the top of the piston ("just in case, to avoid failure")
> to be involved in managing the money pump that is an auto manufacturer.
>


Often the opposite is true.

"Bean counters" dictate what engineers have to work with and how. Good
example might be the Accord tranny problems of a few years back. Another
is marketing sales that make promises and in order to meet traget
production rates/timelines, engineers are forced to take shortcuts.

During my working career, I saw this to be the case all too often.

JT