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Originally Posted by DMike

Where in the "real World" Do you get to manufacture a part or assembly, deliver that part to your customer and then in a few weeks deliver the one that works?

I'm not sure how I feel about the bagging. We just kinda do what FIRST asks of us. It seemed a natural evolution from shipping the robots everywhere so we could have regionals one week sooner and not press the ceiling on the Fedex sponsorship.

But I have spent much of my career in the "real world" designing and delivering systems (or modifications to systems) in weeks, not months. It is called quick-turn engineering. And sometimes we deliver a sub-functional product if that helps our customer work out any issues and pull their schedule in. Like my signature says "Fast, cheap or working - pick any two" - I spent most of my career in the working fast mode with less regard to cost. It happens.