Engineer and Manager Dictionary Terminologies ;)

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1) New: Different color from previous design.

2) All new: Parts not interchangeable with previous design.

3) Unmatched: Almost as good as the competition.

4) Designed simplicity: Manufacturer's cost cut to the bone.

5) Foolproof operation: No provision for adjustments.

6) Advanced design: The advertising agency doesn't understand it.

7) Field-tested: Manufacturer lacks test equipment.

8) High accuracy: Unit on which all parts fit.

9) Direct sales only: Factory had big argument with distributor.

10) Years of development: We finally got one that works.

11) Revolutionary: It's different from our competitors.

12) Breakthrough: We finally figured out a way to sell it.

13) Improved: Didn't work the first time.

14) Futuristic: No other reason why it looks the way it does.

15) Distinctive: A different shape and color than the others.

16) Re-designed: Previous faults corrected, we hope.

17) Hand-crafted: Assembly machines operated without gloves on.

18) Performance proven: Will operate through the warranty period.

19) Meets all standards: Ours, not yours

20) Broadcast quality: Gives a picture and produces noise.

21) High reliability: We made it work long enough to ship it.

22) SMPTE bus compatible: When completed, will be shipped by Greyhound.

23) New generation: Old design failed, maybe this one will work.

24) MIL-SPEC components: We got a good deal at a government auction.

25) Customer service across the country: You can return it from most airports.

26) Unprecedented performance: Nothing we ever had before worked this way.

27) Built to precision tolerances: We finally got it to fit together

28) Microprocessor controlled: Does things we can't explain.

29) Latest aerospace technology: One of our techs was laid off by Boeing.

30) A Number of Different approaches are being tried: We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.

31) Extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach to the problem: We just hired three kids fresh out of college.

32) Close project coordination: We know who to blame.

33) Major technological breakthrough: It works OK, but looks very hi-tech.

34) Customer satisfaction is delivered assured: We are so far behind schedule the customer is happy to get it delivered.

35) Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive: The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.

36) Test results were extremely gratifying: We are so surprised that the stupid thing works.

37) The entire concept will have to be abandoned: The only person who understood the thing quit.

38) It is in the process: It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is about hopeless.

39) We will look into it: Forget it! We have enough problems for now.

40) Please Note and Initial: Let's spread the responsibility for the screw up.

41) Give us the benefit of your thinking: We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we've already done.

42) Give us your Interpretation: I can't wait to hear this bull!

43) See me or let’s discuss: Come into my office, I'm lonely.

44) All new: Parts not interchangeable with the previous design.

45) Rugged: Too damn heavy to lift!

46) Light weight: Lighter than RUGGED.

47) Years of development: One finally worked.

48) Energy saves: Achieved when the power switch is off.

49) Low Maintenance: Impossible to fix if broken

50) Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties: We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.

51) We era going to have a fresh approach to the problem: We just hired a new guy; we'll let them kick it around for a while.

52) The Designs well within allowable limits: We just made it, stretching a point or two.

53) Major Breakthrough: Back to the drawing board.

54) Developed after years of intensive research: It was discovered by accident.

55) Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties’: We are working on something else.

56) The design will be finalized in the next reporting period: We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.

57) Everything is works according to the specs: Need to check the Manual

58) Essentially complete: Half done.

59) We predict : We hope to God!

60) Drawing release is lagging: Not a single drawing exists.

61) Risk is high, but acceptable: 100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and 10 times the manpower, we may have a 50/50 chance.

62) Serious, but not insurmountable, problems: It will take a miracle. God should be the program manager.

63) Not well defined: Nobody has thought about it.

64) Requires further analysis and management attention: Totally out of control.

65) The project is designed for high availability: Malfunctions will be blamed on the operator’s mistakes.

66) This project has low maintenance requirements: We wouldn't let the technicians change a light bulb, much less fool around with our baby.

67) The delivery is scheduled for the last quarter: This leaves us plenty of time to decide who to blame for it being late.

68) Final inspection: last chance to blame someone

69) Documentation: If you can't fix it -- document it.

70) A new start-up: Need to solves a problem you didn't know you had, in away you don't understand.

71) Implementation: I don't know enough to speak intelligently about that.

72) I can't take the credit: It was Ed in your marketing department.(need to cover my @)

73) Everything looks okay to me: You really don't need me.

74) It is technically impossible: don't feel like doing it.

75) It depends: Abandon all hope of a useful answer.

76) The data bits are flexed through a collectimizer which strips the flow gate arrays into virtual message and elements: I don't know or I do not have a clue

77) CAD: To design your child's Pine Wood Derby car.

78) Useful answers: Five minute coffee break
 
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