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19-1024: For the Romanian company, see FAUR . See also: Faure Faur is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (1780–1857), Württemberger painter and army officer David Levi-Faur , Israeli political scientist and academic Freda Du Faur (1882–1935), Australian mountaineer, the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529–1584), French jurist and poet José Faur (1934–2020), Argentine Sephardic Hakham (rabbi), teacher and scholar Louis-François Faur (1746–1829), French librettist, playwright and man of letters Remus Faur (born 1989), Romanian biathlete See also [ edit ] Du Faur Creek , New South Wales, Australia Faur București , Romanian football club [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

38-438: A compromise all the schools and communities merged into it. The name lasted seven years before its headmistress, who called the name "so embarrassing", cut it to simply " The Prescot School ". The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been described as designed by committee, due to being overscheduled, over budget, and underperforming expectations. It was originally conceived to serve the widely varying needs of multiple branches of

57-417: A result of having to compromise between the requirements and viewpoints of the participants, particularly in the presence of poor leadership or poor technical knowledge, such as needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying vision. This design process by consensus is in contrast to autocratic design, or design by dictator , where the project leader decides on

76-572: A result, only 200 engines were built, not 250 or more as intended. In 1990, the company was renamed FAUR and privatized. Since 2004, FAUR is part of Bega Group . Since 1920, the design and the construction of different types of railway engines began at the Domains Factories (nowadays UMC Reșița ) in Reșița and Malaxa Factories in Bucharest. Due to the success of the construction of

95-513: A successor to the DR Class 118 . With a mixture of parts from several planned economy countries, even including West German designs to fill gaps, the Class 119 was unreliable. Only 200 were built in ten years as East Germany cancelled the contract prematurely. No other country purchased the Class 119, but after 1990 unified German rail had to deal with them until they were replaced. An example of

114-665: A technical decision said to be a typical result of design by committee is the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell size of 53 bytes. The choice of 53 bytes was political rather than technical. When the CCITT was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload. Parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads. Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by

133-510: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles FAUR FAUR S.A. is an industrial engineering and manufacturing company based in Bucharest , Romania . FAUR was founded by Nicolae Malaxa in 1921 under the name MALAXA . Main activities were the repairing of rolling stock, manufacturing steam locomotives , diesel locomotives , car-engines and passenger coaches, diesel engines, brake equipment, and special alloy steels. By

152-552: Is the DR Class 119 diesel locomotive, built from 1976 to 1985 in communist Romania for East Germany due to Soviet-era Comecon restrictions. Only the USSR was allowed to continue building powerful diesel engines, but they were too heavy for East Germany where some lines were limited to low axle load locomotives. Not allowed to continue building their own designs, the East Germans managed to have Romanian 23 August Works assemble

171-470: The surname Faur . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faur&oldid=1214216141 " Categories : Surnames Occitan-language surnames Romanian-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

190-545: The Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length of 32 bytes. A 53-byte size (48 bytes plus 5 byte header) was the compromise chosen. An example described as naming by committee was a school near Liverpool formed by the merger of several other schools: it was officially named the "Knowsley Park Centre for Learning, Serving Prescot , Whiston and the Wider Community" in 2009, listing as

209-534: The Bucharest factory installed engines under licence from the West German manufacturer, MTU . Other countries in Comecon also received subcontractor orders. East Germany itself supplied inter alia hydrodynamic transmissions and axle motors. The locomotive drive was, however, plagued by shortcomings and problems from the start. In its early days, 50% of the locomotives were in the workshops at any one time. As

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228-635: The Soviet Union could only supply engines that were too heavy for some lines in East Germany, limited to an axle load (Achsfahrmasse) of under 16 t. Yet, a power output of over 2,000 horsepower was needed. Literally Design by committee , the 119 was built in Romania according to a "construction kit" ( Baukasten ) principle. East German diesel engines should have been used, but due to coordination problems in East Germany's national planning commission,

247-450: The broth " expresses the same idea. The term is also common in other fields of design such as graphic design, architecture or industrial design. In automotive design, this process is often blamed for unpopular or poorly designed cars. The term is commonly used in information and communications technology , especially when referring to the design of languages and technical standards, as demonstrated by USENET archives. An alleged example

266-430: The design. The difference is that in an autocratic style, members of the organizations are not included and the final outcome is the responsibility of the leader. The phrase, "a camel is a horse designed by committee" is often used to describe design by committee. The term is especially common in technical parlance; and stresses the need for technical quality over political feasibility. The proverb " too many cooks spoil

285-607: The end of the 1930s, the Malaxa factories were one of the biggest industrial group in Southeastern Europe, and the main provider of equipment for the Romanian Railways during the period. Nationalised in 1948, part of the company became known as 23 August Works , referring to the 1944 Romanian coup d'état . During Communist Romania it extended its range of manufacturing by approaching pilot projects to

304-606: The military all in one simple platform. This multi-interest approach has been pinpointed as largely responsible for its bloat, along with stacking too many new and unproven features into its design. Uneven progress across areas and unexpected challenges meant that major technical fixes and redesigns could halt the program's movement, requiring planes to be remedied even as they were being delivered. Apple Inc. reportedly uses remote controls designed by other companies with as many as 78 buttons as an example of design by committee when training employees. The Washington Post described

323-468: The most Romanian industries but also to other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. From 1976 to 1985, 200 DR Class 119 engines were built for Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) , as a result of the 1970s Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) agreements. The East German economy was not allowed anymore to build diesel locomotives with more than 1,500 horsepower, and the locomotive builders of

342-587: The railway engines in Reșița and Bucharest factories, Romania ceased importing railway locomotives starting with 1930. Between 1926 and 1960, a total number of 1,207 steam locomotives were built in Romania: 10 models for standard tracks and 3 models for the narrow gauge railways . From these, 797 steam locomotives were made in Reșița Factories and 410 at Malaxa Factories. In 1960 the production of steam locomotives

361-404: Was ceased, the Romanian industry focusing on fabrication of the diesel railway engines. This article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Romania -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Design by committee The term is used to refer to suboptimal traits that such a process may produce as

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