“Department of Engineering and Maintenance”

So I have been thinking about why we call it Engineering and Maintenance. I think the answer may lie in the understood need for continuous improvement.

More importantly, I think that the issue is that Engineering needs to remain always grounded in reality & connecting it to the maintenance of a running system we force this to occur.

As we move to systems that are actually engineered real time by agents unaware of requirements the challenge of staying grounded is only going to increase.