That's how one engineer aptly describes life in the new millennium. David Fadness, a self-employed mechanical engineer who designs medical equipment agrees. I live and do business in Silicon Valley, where the prices are just outrageous. For us, cost control is becoming more and more critical. For engineers at BF Goodrich, the increased pressure means doing everything they were doing before, but doing it better and doing more of it.
Engineers see the road ahead fraught with many challenges.
Dollars and sense. Fadness has been doing for awhile now is modularizing his designs where he can. Modularization is also a cost-cutting strategy for John Fitzgerald, a senior mechanical engineer at Phase Metrics, a company that makes test equipment for the disk drive industry. We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Before, when we needed an x-y motion system, we might buy a bearing, a ball screw, and a motor.