I was 45 when the company that I worked for as Chief Engineer was taken over by assett strippers. They wanted to flatten (and dispense with) my R&D dept to make a road into the rear car park to build property. I said 'its over my dead body', and it was! I remember the big boss telling me that I...
When I was last in the US, touring around the deep south (Louisiana, Missippi, Tennersee and Kentucky). I noticed that almost everything you touched was made in China.
My American pal says "this place would collapse without China - everything in Wal Mart is made in China". Even in the...
When you first got the job it should have been made clear that on occasion, it might be necessary to work overtime to deal with occasional peaks, and the salary paid should reflect that. But, if, as you describe, it is a culture, I believe its wrong to continually work extra hours as a norm. You...
I was Chief Designer of a middle size engineering company making mechanical power transmission devices (about 300 employees). We made dozens of products and literally thousands of different components. I headed the design office numbering about 15 people. One day the Production Engineering...
Seems to me that you have to make up your mind whether you are a CAD operator, or a designer, and whether its the product that you are interested in, or just making models and drawings.
Many years ago when I ran a large Design department, I aquired the name 'Changeit'. That was because when I...
Design Automation is the next step in CAD, but in my experience a lot of engineers don't want to know. (turkeys dont look forward to Xmas or Thanksgiving!). You can see examples of embyonic design automation at www.modularcad.co.uk
