I have owned 16 Ford trucks since 1996, the last one, a 2009 F350 twin turbo diesel, cost $54,950.00. One day it dies on the freeway. After an hour it restarted, but it didn’t run right. The dealer eventually found a bad actuator on one of the turbos and replaced it. It promptly broke off the turbo gate shaft on the stuck gate.
Here’s the part designed by monkeys. They have to remove the cab from the truck to replace the turbo. But wait, there is no way to run the engine with the cab removed, so they had to replace the cab to test the new turbo. The new turbo leaked oil at a disturbing rate, so they had to remove the cab again to reseat the turbo. Because of the poor design, it took 26 days to repair a minor problem.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 5
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