Premature Overoptimization
Posted in ESAS, Launch Vehicles, NASA, Space Development on Oct 9th, 2007
One of the common mistakes I’ve noticed in the engineering is to overoptimize a subcomponent of a system at the expense of the system as a whole. I saw this a lot back in my manufacturing engineering days. You’d get someone working on a specific machine or process, who doesn’t have a good grasp of [...]