Closed sessions · Production

Yield is a design variable

A filed session: how a process engineer and a product designer split the difference on a drawing that would not run.

11 September 2026 · Filed · 45 min · Chaired by The Industrial Brief

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Graphic: The Industrial Brief

Notes from the room are with the production desk. The argument is in this week’s longer reads.

With Sanjay Mehta, Plant director, precision motion.

  1. 1.When did the drawing become unmanufacturable?
  2. 2.Who owned the concession — design or the line?
  3. 3.What changed in the next programme?

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