
2. Designer-applicator relations
When faced with a surface problem, the design or methods engineer must answer the following questions in succession:
what surface properties are required?
how to get them?
at what cost?
To accomplish this task, it can adopt two strategies:
2.1 Strategy A
The designer is familiar with this type of problem and has already encountered it. He chooses to apply and prescribe a "recipe" that he has already experienced with satisfaction, in a previous situation; in so doing, he takes responsibility for his decision and orders from his subcontractor the treatment he has chosen, specifying the nature of the coating or...
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