the previous responsible engineer used the old clip (which is of japanese design) and that had proved it improper quite often already. every time we fitted our taiwanese part with the japanese clip, the problem just showed up. after a long investigation me and a well-experienced analysis engineer decided that the problem was from the clip and it was highly necessary to change its design a little bit.
but when i looked at it carefully and in more detail before revising the 3D data, i found more detailed places which required some changes as well. as it is very important to make the assembly easier enough for technicians to work on, i started brainstorming and trying to figure out which else could make the clip a better one.
the house-like one is the clip i'm talking about. the red one is the part to be fitted. when the part is put onto the clip and applied a downward force, the clip will bend inwardly and then the part will slip down and be hooked tightly.
what i change was the shape of the "roof", besides, after being put to computer aided analysis, i was very much sure that my design would be easier for technicians to work on. However, the well-experienced analysis engineer didn't agree with what i did. he thought my design would be harder for fitting in as well as easily broken. he strongly suggested me to simply use japanese design, which he thought was carefully designed and hence better than mine. i still decided to apply my idea, as i believed it would be necessary to redesign a clip which could well match our taiwanese part, instead of simply using a japanese clip. more than that, my one wouldn't be this fragile. IT WILL NOT BE BROKEN!
after 2-week long and anxious waiting, today a pack of new clips came into my hands. me and a technician tried fitting it, the technician told me my design was better! YES! thank God! this was just wonderfully perfect! nothing can be better than this, even now i'm still enjoying the great feeling of jabbing the part downward and hearing the sound "click, click, clrrrrrrrrrrik"! awesome!
after this i really believe taiwanese should be more confident of themselves. not all the japanese designs are perfect, not all the taiwanese designed stuff are of low quality. we should go our own way, just like bon jovi's new song title says "we weren't born to follow".
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