W, It is indeed utterly tragic hubris
The respected origins of HP for quality Bench equipment (remember those early HP scientific calculators - with RPN - Reverse Polish Notation and all those higher maths trig functions etc). They then went on rebranded as Agilent and downhill all the way as Keysight. Quite an astonishing dramatic demise. Its representative of the whole spectrum of the Industrial Instrumentation Industry in general since WW2. Automation was the fearsome buzzword which gave way to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems as all those traditional makers were amalgamated into a dozen or so advanced technical conglomerates of today. Industry Clients demanded three things;
firstly that the Supplier would guarantee spares and maintenance for twenty years being the life expectancy of the production plant,
secondly, rugged reliability was of paramount importance as plant downtime from equipment failure could be extremely expensive (think of an offshore platform, or a PetroChemical plant),
thirdly Safety Systems had to be developed to ensure reliable shutdown as many emerging Industries involved hazardous processes - eg Nuclear Power, Chemical Plant, Energy et al.
These were very sound and conservative requirements that are often forgotten is today's - whizz bang attitude. My special interest is the application of Lithium/Sodium Batteries and I am appalled at what I see as irresponsible industry practices using a dangerous technology - as well evidenced on Youtube by spectacular fires and explosions. The Public has been recently enabled to experiment with dc battery systems of with large huge stored energy. These can deliver enormous current of 10-20,000 Amps under fault conditions in a garden shed of an amateur dabbler. Only professional Power Engineers have the Technical training and experience in designing such high current systems. The fact this we are dealing with low non lethal voltage gives an utterly false level of confidence for the amateur experimenter popular on Youtube.
To help mitigate risks a reliable monitoring and logging system is necessary (as in the major Process Industries above). So I am all the more inflamed at the utter incompetence of BV to perform its function to Industrial standards. An unreliable logging system is useless protection
No off gridders, windmillers, solar energy enthusiasts have shown much interest in comprehensive logging systems (as per SCADA). We have the technology to scan and store data readily and cheaply but we are just not applying it and comms systems with competing proprietary protocols most certainly impact on reliability (as per KS and NI)
But what do I know
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