Steve,
Again, I hear you. I have been writing a column for the SMTNet, as you may
know. It talks to DFM/CE but gets exactly to what you are saying. I've had
little response from management in those companies I'm targeting but from
folks trying to get the damn job done. I'm especially PO'd at SMTNet's
management for not understanding the importance of management involvement.
They just don't get it but for the dollars and don't realize there would be
so many more if they just did it, but did it right.
My present company has the best engineers in the world ( personal opinion),
having designed and built some of the hardest stuff on earth. Our
management, save some engineers having moved "up," just don't get it. That's
why I'm working at the tail end of the horse showing what tremendous waste
ineffective management makes.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen R. Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:18 PM
Subject: [TN] How to run a manufacturing operation....
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose I was rather harsh in my last email, but I won't apologize for
the
> basic truths. Earl stated it, as I will I, management has a obligation and
a
> responsibilty to know (at least), how their factory makes it's living.
>
> It may not be important that they know all the nitty-gritty details about
the
> processes, but it is important that they know the basics about what it
takes
> to get certain things get done...guys like me and Earl will take care of
the
> details.
>
> What we need is support! When we say that the equipment we have needs to
be
> upgraded to handle the business that will be coming, or that the way we
> process our product needs to be changed (involving a change in the way
that
> things were done in the past) it's not a egotistical preference, but it's
> something that makes economical sense, and something that will make the
job
> easier for everybody...not to mention more profitable.
>
> I think back to all the jobs that I've held in the past, and why I have
left
> those jobs, it's not because of the people I've worked
shoulder-to-shoulder
> with (I wish I could've taken a lot of the people with me!), it's been
> because of the management. Because of the management of the organization,
we
> were always given an impossible task with the resources that we had, and
then
> thoroughly chastised because we didn't make a profit...
>
> Before you mangement people do that, you had better understand what's
going
> on on your manufacturing floor before you wind-up sticking your foot in
your
> mouth, or worse, losing the respect of the workforce that you're supposed
to
> be managing.
>
> If I sound frustrated, I am....
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
> P.S. I really hope that some management people read this!! But they'll
> probably blow it off as some rantings from a disgruntled engineer..
>
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