>One of the most important rules that good designers will never violate is
>modularization: breaking up a complex system into relatively independent
>modules, which are isolated from each other except for a few well-defined
>interfaces. This design rule can be found in all engineering and computer
>science texts. It is true for hardware and software designs. Most complex
>systems that violated this rule ended as miserable failures, while those
>which tried to implement it showed much better rates of success.
This is an interesting rule. I had never expressed it in my mind or in
practice but you are right. It is interesting to note in Toyota's latest
major cost reduction they split the final assembly line into 3 parts so
that problems in one area would not impact the other two thereby improving
uptime on the total.
Gene
Eugene Taurman
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