I strongly agree with your comments. Engineers catch a lot of flak by people who zero in on one little area without taking everything into context. And, like you say, sometimes the result of careful design process is going with the lesser of evils. Case in point is a few of the hydraulic fittings on the piece of farm equipment that I am responsible for the design of. This particular machine has over 50 hydraulic hoses and tubes and I am careful to locate them so that they are as easy as possible to access for maintenance. However, the machine in production today has a few fittings that I'm sure cause mechanics to mutter bad words about the idiot who designed it. Why did I release it to production this way? Because after days (literally) of trying to improve the access to these several fittings it became obvious that there just wasn't enough space to make everything easily accessible. So, I ended up sacrificing a few of them to improve the access to a greater number of others. No engineer wants to have to make compromises but when everything is considered - development time, product cost, resources available, simplification on the assembly line, etc - the best solution may not be perfect because the costs associated with achieving perfection may simply not be worth it in the long run.
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