I was hoping to get some information on working in other countries. I have a MEng from Durham University and am currently working towards CEng through the IMechE. I work in the aerospace industry but heavily biased towards manufacturing engineering. I’ve been told that the only reason to go for...
I’ve been in my job nine months now straight out of a master degree and I don’t know how useful I’ve been to be honest. I switch departments every three months to see all the aspects of the business the down side being that 3 months isn’t really long enough. In each placement I spend the first...
Please don’t disillusion me – engineering is my dream job. Only been doing it for 9 months full time and where else can I work 35hrs / week get 5 weeks holiday a year for a decent wage and still have a life. I should know already in my mere 24 years I’ve been:
Car Servicer.
Wedding waitress...
OK lets talk about clothes from what I can tell half of you want women to dress up like your mothers and half want low cut tops and provocation.
Conclusion it all depends on your team / company and there is no right or wrong answer.
I'm lucky that my work provides work wear hence this is a...
Who cares how many tonnes you produced.
How many orders have been fulfilled / How many tonnes you sold - now thats a number that would be worth seeing.
In my experiance programme planning can be split into 2 distinct parts. Firstly MPS which predicts demand way in the future ie 12 - 18 months. This is where the BOM is kept and tends to be updated once a week. This can also show the impacts of losing production speed. There is also lower level...
Ok here we go
Yes one piece flow does mean 1 piece flow. Though don't be tempted to introduce this throughtout the facility. The Handle that inventory is evil has become all to prevelant recently. Inventory should be used strategically to protect bottlenecks and be controlled.
Depending on the...
