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testing is ess
GSSIWednesday, Nov. 5, 1986
ontact with the end user of the
product and listening to the°
'requirements of the customer
are essential components to the job
for Champion's test engineering
group.
Champion ultimately has to serve
the needs and requirements of the
user and the company's chief test
engineer, Gil Boyd, believes the test
department is responding to the
marketplace.
"We need that end user contact so
that problems with the product can
be referred to engineering and
looked at," he said. "The
r uirements ani netdls Ali the
customer have to be looked at. It's
also a basic requirement for new
designs."
Now the chief test engineer, Gil
was first hired as a project engineer
.. in the test area in 1982, the same
year the Research and Development
segment was moved from Victoria
Street. The testing component now
' shares space with service people at
the Huckins Street facility.
The RND department has
traditionally been involved in the
prototyping of components and
graders as well as the testing of
graders. Boyd said a team, which
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Champions are put to the test at the sales and. service building
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