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| Design Variations can hinder operation and maintenance |
Occasionally developers find it useful to add enhancements to a product, adding some esoteric variation and new set of use cases. This can happen often with systems level products, oweing to the almost infinite variety of NEW NEW end user configurations which can be achieved.
Toward the end of last week on my return to Australia, I visited Bondi Beach in Sydney and took the pilgrimage around the headland which was hosting the annual 'Sculptures by the Sea' event. There among the hundred odd sculptures scattered around the cliff walk was a car which had been shall we say 'enhanced' by the addition of various pipes and structures. The topology of the thing would definitely give your average maintenance technician a headache, probably which could only be resolved by a swim with the sharks or a welding torch.
