The modern day equivalent of "Muntzing" is called COS in my company.
COS stands for "Cost of Sales". The COS teams look for ways to take cost out of products. It's a legitimate and common practice. The more cost you take out of a product, the higher your margin. On a daily basis the COS team folks come to me asking how they can reduce the cost of an assembly, find a lower cost component, reduce the harness cost, substitute a cheaper connector, reduce assembly time, evaluate another vendor of a particular part, reduce test time, etc. Sometimes these efforts save the company millions. Other times they don't save money at all or even end up costing the company money when things go wrong. Overall, the 2nd set of eyes and hands generally makes the product better and more reliable. Not always at first, but inevitably the effort pays off and the company is better for it. When I contribute to such an effort, I indirectly share in the savings, thru increased margins, profit sharing, stock price, etc. Muntzing isn't haphazard today like it was back then. It's a concerted, purposeful effort with goals and payoffs that work. It makes business sense. Just don't call it Muntzing. No one will know what you're talking about. Terry On Aug 8, 2:47 pm, jb-electronics <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick wrote: "Cooo.... Madman Muntz mentioned in two threads on the same > > day! His name liveth evermore..." > > Reading Mike's post, though, I got the impression that "Muntzing" > circuits is something that is to be avoided. Reading the respective > Wikipedia article (which is very compact, though), I did not get the > impression of "Muntzing" to be something bad. > > Any insights? ;-) > > My own opinion is that Muntzing should only be done by people who really > know what they are talking about... What do you think? > > Regards, > Jens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
