Two very good replies, thanks.
VeryPicky, I wish it was that easy. The end customer (and design authority) is a foreign company, this is an export controlled product, meaning much government oversight, limiting my input. If the customer knew what they really wanted, it would be one thing...
I imagine some of you have seen my other posts and know my situation, but short of it is that I am looking for a job. I am in the aerospace/mechanical field with management experience. I would like to get in for interviews with the local divisions of some of the big companies (Raytheon...
Well, I was happy to let this thread die as profengmen suggested, but want to update everyone and say thanks for the advice. This is the best engineering forum I have found, wish I could support it more.
I've been trying to fight the good fight, keep the project rolling and keep everything...
Here is a situation that I really hope nobody else has had to deal with, but hope someone can help me out with some advice or information.
I have a big project, major part of which are 2 weldments, one steel (primarily galvanized), one aluminum. All welding to be done to AWS D17.1, non-flight...
Oh, and forgot to answer profengmen's question. If I am perceived as a pain in the butt to work with, it's because I follow the requirements of the contract. If there is a problem that is an MRB condition, it needs to get reported, not covered up. It takes time to go through the MRB process...
It's not so much that part, it's an atmosphere. That part would probably be fine, but the fact is, we didn't have the authority to do anything once a mistake was made. This is for a large aerospace company, my current employer is an aerospace machine shop trying to get into more integration...
I am in a situation nobody wants to be in. I am looking for a new job because of situations at work while still needing the job to pay bills. Basically I am in charge of a project building a product for a customer. Lately I have found several instances of questionable practices in the...
I would agree with IRstuff for the most part. The Loral deal was extreme, thus the extreme consenquence. However, remember, if you are using a known technology in a new way, or in a different application, it can fall under the same rules. I would think same thing with materials, however I am...
I don't believe it is good business practice, I wouldn't feel comfortable giving advice on the line.
On a different note, because I deal with it pretty much daily on my current project, is export of technology. You say you have overseas customers. You are not, I repeat, not allowed to give...
I am program manager on on rather large ($23 million) program that is just getting off the ground. We are building first article right now, getting a little bit behind schedule. There are a number of reasons for that, some ours, some out of our control. My customer is overseeing many other...
Thanks for the tips. I will have the QA guys look and see if the distortion is consistant enough to machine it to warp to straight. We machine a lot of 7075 aluminum here, don't seem to have much trouble with it warping, I don't know if it is the 7050 or just the geometries. I will look more...
I have found a problem in our shop that we haven't been able to get around. We have some parts, 7050 aluminum, with 2 legs, 8 inches long, 3/4 inch thick, 2 inches tall, 1.5 inch separation. We are using a tooling tab in the middle, bench it out after machining. The cutting is taking place in...
Sounds like 2 choices. Sign the non-compete, or find a new job. Believe it or not, this is very common in many industries, I am actually surprised it is only a 1 year period being in the UAV market. We almost required a 10 year non-compete for all our workers, backed off so only upper...
gstark if you do have a contact I would appreciate it. This is for Australia, not General Dynamics. The powers that be here said we are not farming out the reverse engineering on this part, we are working on getting drawings from General Dynamics, we do some work for them but since this job...
It's a stringer type-assembly with a couple of latching mechanisms. I can give you the part number, but I haven't been able to find out just what the part is or where it goes on the plane. This is for Australia, helping to keep the old planes flying.
I am located in Colorado in the US. I...
