Biological systems are complicated, often unpredictable, as are organisational ones. The Guardian reports a study from Sweden showing there is greater risk than previously thought of tipping points in biological systems being breached, because apparently separate events are often linked. Obvious when you think about it. My relentlessly SME (small manufacturing enterprise) focused brain jumps immediately to the theory of constraints and it’s preoccupation with identifying the primary constraint in any particular system. Like so much scientific endeavour, we tend to look for a single cause when in truth it is almost always a group of causes that needs to …
IN PRAISE OF 3D COMPUTER MODELLING
A 3-D model delivers truth. You the designer, you the maker, you the client, can all see immediately what it is that will be made. The elevations will be laid out accurately and the sections, in whatever plane and in however complicated a piece, will always be ……truthful. This is of enormous value in the making of prototypes, artworks and individual bespoke items. It de-risks them and the more complex they are the greater the de-risking is required. We all know rubbish in = rubbish out. The same applies, truth in = truth out. @William Garvey Furniture Makers, we only …