Chasing a Moving Target Wearing a Ball and Chain

Economics is known as "the dismal science" for a reason. You are likely hard-pressed to think of a single instance when an economist brought you good news. Today's economic environment is more dismal than usual. Managers are looking for innovative — and hopefully relatively painless — ways to reduce costs. Yet you still have to meet an ever-accelerating array of test and measurement goals to get a reliable (and profitable) product out the door and into the hands of your customers. What are you doing to maximize the productivity of your people? Your equipment? How can you recycle already developed test strategies and apply them to new situations? At what point do you regard spending more money as unavoidable?

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