ABSTRACT
For many reasons, engineers and designers have looked on data processing as an unnecessary evil. "Let someone else do it" has been the motto. Consequently, clerks have been enlisted to take basic design data retranslate it into the information required for business systems. Without participating in the design of such systems, the engineer does not recognize the faults or inconveniences of the old engineering systems which are being used. Perhaps some brief analogies and a comparison of past communication devices will serve to illustrate and emphasize the role data processing plays in engineering specifically, and with a manufacturing company generally.
