You probably felt like you disturbed a hornet's nest! Yes, these guys say
what they think, but at the same time they are willing to share all they
know. And the amount of knowledge and experience available is humongous (or
just pick a another really nice good word).
Supply chain: Do you mean the chain that stretches from the design engineer
and the manufacturing engineer of the product to the design engineer and the
manufacturing engineer of the part or material needed? Plus all those
necessary pieces in between? (Can you say DFM?)
I believe those are the important functions you need to stay in contact with
if you want to be a successful project engineer or manager. But always
several other functions get involved, like upper management, the finance
department, procurement, etc. From personal experience I know they do not
always have the same goal/award structure that I was laboring under.
The real trick a project engineer/manager has to master is to get all those
people involved and onto the same page, understanding the project goals and
pitfalls. Once that has been accomplished the project will get wings.
(When quality and functionality are important, don't leave the procurement
job to the "buyer". His job is to save pennies and dimes, leading to his
awards and he may not understand functionality.)
Once the goals and pitfalls are known and internalized by all involved you
should also know the vagaries of the market. Who is going to buy the
product, how many, how many variations, when are they needed and what
depends on the performance of the product. That knowledge plus the ease or
difficulty of making the parts and materials you need to manufacture the
product determines how to work with your vendor. And you need to remember
that your vendors are part of the product line. Treat them and involve them
just like you have to treat and involve the rest of the people in your
project.
For new products a lot of what the market wants is guess work, but the
people involved in the product collectively should be able to come up with
pretty good initial guesses. Once the project is up and running you learn
more about customer demand and adjust and add the probabilities.
And if you run into production problems, remind everyone: if there is no
product output, there are no customer deliveries, no invoices go out, no
payments come in and there is no money for wages. So, hop to everyone.
Hope the story helps.
(I did not like the questionnaire very much.)
Ahne.
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Subject: Re: [TN] Remain competitive and help. Your opinion needed Terry B.
Baker
Sharon
Thank you so much! That clears that up I have never had a problem with
Survey Monkey. You have a genuine think tank going on here, it is so
impressive
to see this much innovation going on in cyber space. It gives me faith in
our ability as a humanity to work together.
Additionally I have learned a lot working with your crew. Most of all, I
have gotten my own UMUC (University of Maryland, University College) email
address, I never realized how important that was with survey research! I
think your team has more to say about efficient supply chains than they
realize, sometimes its intuitive. Supply chain efficiency is not necessary
something that's in a textbook, its effective communication in real time.
This is
something that your cyber team has learned, that cannot be achieved through
any manufacturing procedure implemented. Watching so many people work with
through common problems with uncommon agility is entirely empirically
fascinating. Again people are the main reason for a systems success, and
never
the reason for a systems failure.
In any case, if you have not, I would ask you to take my survey if you
wish, and again, I thank all of you for your feedback. There IS a 500
dollar
cash prize and I am shutting my data collection down at the end of the
month
so I cannot yet say what the definite odds are. I CAN say its less than
one in 300, probably closer to 1 on 100.
Sincerely and warmest regards,
Sincerely and Respectfully,
Terry B. Baker (814)-329-7357
Doctoral Candidate
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East
Adelphi, MD 20783 USA
Phone: 800-888-UMUC (8682)
Tom Mierzwa (Chair, Doctoral Program)
Monica Graham (Admissions and Advisory Contact)
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Yes, IPC uses Survey Monkey quite a lot. I've used it for 15 or 20
projects over the past three years or so, with no problems.
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