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October 2016

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Date:

10/31/2016

Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

People don’t think about engineers much, and in general engineers are looked upon in a positive light. Unless something goes wrong with something. In the marketplace, engineering is usually the first direction people point fingers when problems occur in a product. Unsafe and/or malfunctioning products are proble

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Date:

10/28/2016

For want of a nail

Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

Continuing the old story-telling tone which began the issue, I would like to point your attention to the centuries-old proverb “For want of a nail” which describes a chain of events and their consequences from a small error snowballing into catastrophe. There are many lessons to draw from this, from the im

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Date:

10/11/2016

Industrial things

Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

Many of our readers know my references to the Internet of Things (IoT) using the old parable of the “Blind men and an elephant” from the Indian Subcontinent. The parable talks about a group of blind men who have encountered an elephant and are trying to determine what it is by grabbing the closest body part to

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Date:

10/10/2016