back to engineering
back to engineering
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i recently joined a manufacturing eng department as a junior member. this is after 4 years of graduation from IE. i sidetracked to other areas like production control. now that i am back to engineering, i am kind of surprised by the way our department handles projects. in college, we used to make project proposals, then make a preliminary study, then do the actual study following the "engineering design process". now i noticed that we don't do it in this department. our projects are very straightforward, i don't even see data gathering, documentation of existing system, and the works. is this natural? am i being very much "by the book"?





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About the best you can do is keep your portion of the task(s) planned and organized. If you are extremely lucky, others may see the value in the planning and coordinating efforts and perhaps adopt them. If your management is chasing new ideas and trends but not putting effort into using them, prepare to weather the storm or look for another ship.
Good luck,
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All new grads are groomed by the companies step-by-step.
You must Prove yourself.
One day you will be able to put the big picture together.
In Defense Industry; each engineer is given a task and no-one person could put the project together for security reasons.
Know Your Industry and follow direction.
Ed Spearman
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How in depth a study is based on the company's expectation. Plant expansion for future growth lets discuss this.
What are you making? The same product(s), the same part mix, the same design.
How many? Management will have to supply that number.10%, 50% or 100% increase in business.
Resources? Defined to some level
Comparison of alternatives.
Your current job may be to supply only a portion of one of these items or it may cover all the items. Technology and new ideas are sometimes very difficult to implement in a company.