Engineering Delay -How many bodies waiting?

[Scott Webster]

Jim expanded on the engineering delay at cinematography.com saying they are having a problem with one board.

If that is the case how does the manufacturing process work? Do you rip ahead and manufacture the rest of the cameras or wait until the one board is locked off and then roll the production line again?

Would it be feasible to have 500 manufactured camera bodies waiting on one component?

[Mark B.]

Jim expanded on the engineering delay at cinematography.com saying they are having a problem with one board.

If that is the case how does the manufacturing process work? Do you rip ahead and manufacture the rest of the cameras or wait until the one board is locked off and then roll the production line again?

Would it be feasible to have 500 manufactured camera bodies waiting on one component?

If it's one board having the problem, that might mean one board repeatedly has the problem every time it is produced. So pushing ahead without understanding the problem would be impossible.

[Michael Schrengohst]

Back in the eighties I worked for an artwork service
that made printed circuit board artwork.
At that time we were burning artwork that was 7 and 8
layers deep for what would become some of the
main frame switching equipment that Nortel and companies
like that would make. We finally had to beef up security.
Our own employeees were making copies of the artwork
and selling it too competitors. We had issues with
dis-gruntled employees making mistakes on purpose to
slow development down. We were an outside shop and
companies that hired us would find sabatoge by their employees
who would go to work for competitors.....
With a high profile project like RED, nothing would surprise me.

[Shawn Nelson]

I work as an engineer and what this means is that they can go ahead and move forward with producing the other components, but they can't do assembly or complete testing yet. Unfortunately, it sounds like they haven't even started environmental testing on the unit as a whole. You've got to go through that and that process can find bugs as well.

[Chris Gearhart]

We finally had to beef up security.
Our own employeees were making copies of the artwork
and selling it too competitors. We had issues with
dis-gruntled employees making mistakes on purpose to
slow development down.

Willy Jannard only uses Oompa Loompas after the break-in. No problem there.

[Shane Betts]

IMHO the most likely reason for the holdup is that they're on backorder on an IC or two - happens all the time and can cost months.

If that is indeed the case, they can continue to build everything else, test their prototypes and further develop features while they wait.

Assuming I'm right (sometimes happens) once they get the parts they should only be a day or so behind schedule (might be able to knock out 50-100 boards in a day).

In other words, instead of releasing 20 cameras in the first week, they'll release 100 and they'll have less limited functionality when they do get released.

If it's frustrating for us, imagine how crazy it's making Jim and the gang.

[Robert Sanders]

I wonder who those 10 major movie productions are?