Thinking Aloud!

What is reliability? When will you call anything reliable?

Every time we use any electronics device, or for that matter
any product, we expect it to work reliably
at the very first and every single time after that. How will
you respond if, in between a critical call, your mobile
resets? (It has a microprocessor inside it, which means it
CAN reset
itself,though it happens rarely) Or your car doesn’t start
when you are getting late?

I will not like to be any such situation, but today I find
myself on the other side!
Will you call yourself a 
good engineer, if your product is not reliable or in
fact you yourself
are not reliable?

Today, I tried making two circuits (a stepper motor driver
and a TV remote controlled DC motor driver). Now, all that I
had to do was joining 3-4 simple off-the-shelf components
and the circuits should have worked, but no, they wont! I
checked and then re checked many times but nothing happened!

Now even after three years of experience, if I cant make
such a simple thing work (or even find whats wrong with
them) then where is the reliability in my work? It would
have been fine had this been my first time, but I have
successfully made same
circuits in past and cant even
re-produce my own
work! This is kinda shameful and frustrating also…

 
posted by Sumit Tada @ 10:11 PM

3 Comments::

 
Alok Singh said…

its frustrating but making mistakes
will teach u that thing which might not be easily grasped.
so buddy it can be seen like this as well that with each
failure u r learning one new concept. but yeh sab baatien
sunne mein acchi lagti hain yeah its frustrating.shayad woh
circuit u made it before was just good luck chal bye

 
4:44 PM, April 26, 2006


   

  Anonymous said…

alok singh

its frustrating but making mistakes will teach u that thing
which might not be easily grasped. so buddy it can be seen
like this as well that with each failure u r learning one
new concept. but yeh sab baatien sunne mein acchi lagti hain
yeah its frustrating.shayad woh circuit u made it before was
just good luck time or it might be your heyday chal bye

 
6:21 PM, April 26, 2006


   

 
Raam Pyari said…

hmmmmm

nirash na ho….

mera asheerwaad hai tumhare saath!!!

and cummon sumit..

ek baar nahi owrk kara..

dosari baar nahi karra…

dus bar karr

aur padh subject ke baare mein.

just remebr one thing

where there is a will, there is a way.

yeh yaad rakho and luk for a way.

 
11:02 AM, April 28, 2006