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You don't think perhaps that having a mass storage device available to the tool is going to encourage engineers to find uses for it? Updating the tool firmware
by throwanem 3y ago
You don't think perhaps that having a mass storage device available to the tool is going to encourage engineers to find uses for it?
Updating the tool firmware, say - especially since with OTA updates unavailable for reason of the tool being forbidden to incorporate a radio, there's no other way to update the tool's firmware, not without complicating its design to expose a port rugged enough to survive the hard-knocks life an industrial tool is guaranteed to lead.
You might argue that this isn't worse than the current state of play - which would be true, but irrelevant, because in order to justify the massive cost and complication of this proposed design, you need to be able to show that the result is to a comparable extent better. You have yet to do that, and I doubt it can be done at all.
- fluoridation 3y agoI don't see why a torque wrench needs to receive firmware updates if it has no connectivity whatsoever. It's a wrench. It has to tighten nuts according to a torque value selected via the keyboard. What could an update possibly do to make it perform this one task better? What are you on about? I'm arguing there were ways to solve the problem that didn't involve the tool connecting to the Internet. I don't need to show that my solution is better, because that has nothing to do with what I'm saying. And either way there's no "better" here. There's no objective measure of goodness. What's better to me and what's better to Bosch are not necessarily the same, and in fact they obviously aren't, as I never would have designed a tool this way, but then I don't have a tool manufacturing company.