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SMPS Sub-circuit is faulty
langwadt:
--- Quote from: ebastler on June 10, 2023, 12:22:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Faringdon on June 10, 2023, 11:35:52 am ---The military work, is mainly a “show off” , token operation, kind of, to “show the main customers that they know their stuff” when it comes to power supplys….then these customers are more likely to place huge, lucrative orders for the Chinese Power supplies which the company “Middle-man’s” in from China.
This post is not to knock the Chinese, who are absolutely honorable, decent, and hard working people, indeed, who are in some ways, taken advantage of, in respect of their hard work, if anything…
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The way I understand your actual question, it has nothing to do at all with that company's China import business. Your question is how your friend should deal with a design flaw he has found in an existing military product of his company, right? And since the company's military products are designed locally, this flaw has nothing to do with the Chinese power supplies they sell to other markets, if I got you right.
If my understanding is correct -- why did you mention the China import side of the business at all? It merely serves as a distraction then. And given how many times you have obsessed over middle-man or storefront businesses reselling Chinese imported power supplies, including schemes to set up your own company along those lines, it undermines credibility of your post.
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sure it isn't just a story made up to use as an excuse to complain about china? ...
coppercone2:
well it could happen to anyone....
SiliconWizard:
Just asking for a friend. ;D
MK14:
--- Quote from: Faringdon on June 10, 2023, 11:35:52 am ---
this post is not political
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Then (bold added by me, in both quotes) ...
--- Quote from: Faringdon on June 10, 2023, 11:45:50 am ---the outsourcing of virtually all SMPS design and manufacture to the Far East, ...this has a massively deleterious impact on the military capability of the UK's defence industry, but nobody does anything about that.
...so thanks for the copy/paste...but really, how far down the scale_of_danger the situation of the top post is?, in relation to the massive disaster that's already happened on this front....as just described here.
SMPS design and manufacture skills are massively important in sustaining todays, highly electronics based, , military equipment.....and yet we've hived all that skill over to the Far East.
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SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Faringdon on June 10, 2023, 11:35:52 am ---(...)
What should he do?.
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Not quite sure exactly what the question entails. But to sum it up, i guess this would be down to some engineer witnessing dubious practices from their employer and wondering what to do about it?
First thing as an engineer is to voice your concerns to your boss. Looks like this part was taken care of. This is usually the only thing you can really do if you want to keep your job.
If your boss doesn't take the actions that would seem appropriate to you, then you have 3 choices: either you forget about it and continue as usual, or you quit and make your concerns public (but you better be convinced this is a very serious concern that could have an impact on public safety, otherwise you're setting yourself up for some beating), or just quit, and shut up.
Regardless of the particular situation, this is actually a relatively "common" place you're going to be in at one point or another in your engineering career. Nobody can decide for you what your ethics are and what you'll have to do in such a case.
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