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Why the Production of a Defective Product Must End by Jacob Gan
Engineers labor continuously to create goods and develop the methods and procedure to make these goods for use by mankind. They also make our living more convenience and make our environment more beautify and sustainable. They are the people who turn scientific dreams into reality.
They do not always succeed in their mission to make the world a better place for all. In particular, they are not always successful in preventing disasters and other bad effects that arise from their own creation. This failure may not due to their inability to overcome the technological limitations. Instead, many of the causes of their failure arise from human greed and selfishness.
Key engineering projects such as those in the aeronautical and aerospace industries can be very costly and they can also take a long time to complete. When a design is found to be defective during the late stage of the project, it is not always financially feasible to perform the redesign of the product to correct the harms it may cause. In order to better appreciate the quandary often encountered by engineers when they discover faults in their design, let us study the case of the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion and the DC-10 Jumbo Jet crash.
The Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion
For a better appreciate this case, some of the background information will be useful.
The main vehicle in the space shuttle is the orbiter. There are three rocket engines in the orbiter, which also contains a huge cargo bay for the space lab or for satellite that will be launched from the space shuttle. Most of the liquid hydrogen fuel needed by the rocket engines is stored in a huge external tank (which also carries oxygen to support fast combustion). The external storage tank is jettisoned after about eight and a half minutes from lift-off when the fuel is used up.
The rockets in orbiter cannot provide sufficient power to send the shuttle into space because of the huge weight. The additional thrust during lift-off is provided by two external solid rocket boosters. Since the booster rockets are huge and long, they are manufactured in segments and the 5 segments are joined together at the launch site. These joints are called field joints since they are put together at the launch site. The field joints are not as sturdy as those performed in the factory and the sealing is also not as reliable. The lower performance of these field joints was apparent from the various tests. Of particular was the concern that the sealing at the joint to prevent the hot rocket air from leaking at low temperature. However, the redesigning process was slow and no new design was available.
The most significant event took place on the night of Jan 27, 1986. The Challenger space shuttle was to be launched in the morning. The maker of the solid rockets boosters, Morton-Thiokol, held a teleconference with NASA managers. The engineers at Morton-Thiokol presented their concerns about the safety of the launch. In particular, the danger due to the poor performance of the field joints under the influence of the cold weather. They recommended that the launch be postponed till the temperature rose to a more suitable level.
The NASA managers were not happy with the recommendation. There were several reasons. Apparently, they believed the solid rocket boosters would be able to perform well although the temperature was expected to be low – about 26 degrees Fahrenheit. This was because in their design specifications, the solid rocket boosters were supposed to be able to perform safely at temperature as low as 31 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it was suspected that the NASA managers were keen to launch the space shuttle without any further delay because of the following three reasons:
Reason 1: Political Pressure
President Reagan was to speak on education during his State of the Union Address while the space was to be in space. It would be a very opportune time with a teacher in space at that time.
Reason 2: Economic Pressure
NASA wanted to make the space shuttle program commercially attractive. At that time, the European Space Agency was posing too much of a competition
Reason 3: Scheduling Backlog
There had been too many delays in the past and there is a backlog of launches. In particular, the next launch was to observe Comet Halley before the Russians.
As a result of the pressure from NASA managers, Morton-Thiokol managers changed their recommendation to launch from no-launch, even though their engineers protested strongly against it.
Challenger space shuttle was launched as scheduled the next morning and it exploded, killing all the astronauts.
The Crash of DC-10 Jumbo Jet
When the first fully loaded DC-10 jumbo jet exploded in 1974 over the suburbs of Paris, killing 346 people, it was not unexpected by some people who were in the know about the defective design of the air craft. In fact the engineers in Convair who perform the fuselage design for McDonnell Douglas wanted to redesign the cargo doors and to strengthen the cabin floor because there was the danger in the current design that would result in the cargo door being forced open during flight leading to the collapse of the passenger cabin floor where control cables are laid and crash result.
The top management at Convair did not inform McDonnell Douglas of the design defect because of fear of big financial cost and liabilities, as well as delay in putting the new aircraft into production.
Observations:
There are close parallels between the two cases. Both designs were known to be flawed by the engineers who tried to alert the management but the management decisions were clouded by monetary considerations which led to the eventual loss of the crafts and the lives of the occupants. In both cases, engineering hats were removed and management hats put on.
Reference:
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http://www.demystifycancer.com/Courses-HealthCare.htm
Jacob Gan PhD (Michigan) has more than 20 years of teaching experience in a university and 8 years of business/industrial experience after graduation. He writes for succezz.com, JacobGan.com, JacobEducation.com, DemystifyCancer.com, understanding-orchids.com, motivate2success.com and JacobLearning.com. He hosts Jacob.TheeLearningcentre.com, an elearning portal.
Article Source: http://www.earticlesonline.com/Article/Why-the-Production-of-a-Defective-Product-Must-End/273112
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