The Heart of the Beast Photograph by William Fields

The Heart of the Beast

by William Fields

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Price

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Dimensions

36.000 x 24.000 inches

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Title

The Heart of the Beast

Artist

William Fields

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."
Ernst Fischer

Although machinery works so well and seems to lie in the realm of perfection, the reality can be something altogether different.

A few years ago, Ford Motor Company produced a model called the Escort. For whatever reason, the auto was introduced with two versions of the same automatic transmission. The decision to use one or the other was somewhat arbitrary and primarily relied on availability. One transmission was produced by Ford in Batavia, Ohio. The other came from Japan and was built by Mazda. Both transmissions were built to identical specifications.

Soon after introduction of the Escort, word got out in the consumer base that the Japanese transmission was superior. Car buyers began crawling under Escorts to see which transmission the vehicle was built with.

The situation created great consternation in Ford�s engineering and executive groups. For all intents, the transmissions were expected to be identical. What on earth could have happened to create the situation?

Ford disassembled two transmissions. One was built in Batavia and the other was built in Japan. Each and every part was measured and the measurements were recorded.

When the results were examined it was found that every single part in the Batavia transmission was within specification. Every part from the Japanese transmission was also within specification. So, what was different?

Engineers describe parts with drawings. The drawings have ideal dimensions for each measurement and an allowable tolerance range. For example a typical dimension on a part might be required to be a half inch. This is expressed as a decimal number .500. If the tolerance was .005 (about the thickness of a human hair) the dimension would be allowed to be as large as .505 and as small as .495 and still be considered usable. Keep in mind that is two human hair thicknesses of variation allowed. It isn�t very much.

Every part on an automobile has numerous dimensions and each dimension has a tolerance range of acceptability. The dimensions on the parts made in Batavia were sometimes near the maximum measurement allowed. They were sometimes near the minimum measurement allowed and they were sometimes at the ideal or nominal value, exactly in the middle of the tolerance range.

The dimensions on the parts made in Japan were all very close to this ideal or nominal value. And that was the only difference between the transmissions.

By carefully monitoring their manufacturing processes, the Japanese supplier maintained a condition very close to the engineering ideal for each and every part. In doing so, they built transmissions that performed exactly as the engineers intended.

The moral of the story, if there is one, is that what we believe to be perfection is very illusive. Machinery that we expect to be perfect often is not. The amount of imperfection can seem miniscule and yet make such a vast difference. True perfection doesn�t exist. There is only the illusion of perfection.

All attempts to mimic the so called perfection of technology in our beings are flawed at best and in truth vain and inglorious.

And finally, the differences we find in each other; the imperfections that we all have are our greatest treasures. It is our mark of humanity to be less than perfect. It is the greatest beauty we can know.

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