GMs new secret weapon......LOL

BenK wrote:
Means this OEM has realized that their bean counter management of the engineering
department and design product teams has not worked...eliminating CDRs (critical design
reviews) and making their customers the test mules (not just GM, but mostly
Detroit OEMs)

FEA is only as good as the input and canned software DB

Anyone remember that Detroit had many million mile proto-types that were disassembled
for forensic's ? Or that they kept those test mules well past the million mile
mark to see what wore out/broke later?

I do.

I also agree about bean counters running companies. Recall the the 1980's when a bean counter ran GM and market share plunged...around 20 % in that decade.

Compare that decade to the years when an enthusiast engineer (Ed Cole) ran Chevy...then GM....these were the glory and best market share years of GM.