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  1. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    The greatest day I had at my previous employer was the day the laid me off! The next day I was contacted by a pharmaceutical company for employeement as their QM. They kept my loser boss and are now trying desperetly to hire a replacement (6 months later). I no longer work in a dirty coolant...
  2. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    Wow my boss is nine for ten on your list. Being a weasel who sucks sporting event tickets from vendors elevates him some in my frustration level.
  3. Jhewes

    Manufacturing Schedules in Taiwan

    JTMcC That would depend on how well it was managed. Lean initiatives, TQM, TPM and automation when well managed can allow a company to compete with low labor costs. The owner of a company called last night interested in hiring my services. He wanted to hire me to fix their quality problems...
  4. Jhewes

    Manufacturing Schedules in Taiwan

    You folks that trade overseas are getting just what you deserve.. My favorite story of doing business with those foreign devils goes like this. A competitor of ours tried a Chinese die caster for gasoline nozzle bodies and swivel components. Four months later a Chinese firm opened up selling...
  5. Jhewes

    Quality Control!!/Inspection!!!

    Inspection is nonvalue added. Control is an illusion. Otherwise you wouldn't have any Nonconforming Product. Quality is the pursuit of customer satisfaction. World Class Quality is the pursuit of customer satisfaction through preventitive means. But those are just my thoughts
  6. Jhewes

    NDT help

    Im just outside of St Louis.
  7. Jhewes

    NDT help

    The problem is we need a means to check inter-chamber nozzle bodies prior to manufacturing without adding time to the operation.
  8. Jhewes

    NDT help

    On our die casted parts Mag particle was my first choice but it is expensive and would add an operation to our current set up. Our sandcasted parts have a rough surface.
  9. Jhewes

    PRO-E Freind or Foe

    We are currently utilizing a current version of Pro-E. I am told that it is the best application for designing our nozzles from the IT guys. Our Engineers are split on its capabilities. So I am wondering how others are fairing with this software?
  10. Jhewes

    NDT help

    I work as a Quality Engineer for a gasoline nozzle producer and one of our biggest problems is pin holes. We have used X-ray in the past but these pin holes are so small they cannot typically be seen by X ray. They show up in both die casted and sand casted product. Is there a better method than...
  11. Jhewes

    What makes you most satisfied at your job?

    When my boss travels or goes on vacation it seems we get twice as much accomplished. Im thankful for that.
  12. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    I got my reward for suggesting self managed teams they removed the documents control person and added that to my list of growing responsibilities.
  13. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    I am doing better than last year when at the ISO 9000:2000 recertification party The Executive Vice President in front of all the employees congradulated the Engineering Manager for writing all those documents. I was not even mentioned although it was my project as Management Representative for...
  14. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    In Management Review yesterday was one of the most frustrating days at this two-bit operation I can remember. Our Managers began a lean presentaion stating "anything other than parts is a waste". They went on to detail how much waste is involved with the Quality Department. So basically It...
  15. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    Funnle guy, Poor employees represent poor management. When employees are not challenged in their job, directed toward the companies goals and rewarded for their efforts then what do you expect? Managers salaries continue to rise while the guy that made it happen in the back cubicle is...
  16. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    Ed, You are the exception to the rule you have the brass nuts to put it all on the line and I commend you but most of us do not have that luxury. When I was hired it was for a specific job as an engineer not to design the entire system for someones lack of knowledge. For the last three years...
  17. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    To Ed Danzer. Either you have never suffred through the pains of an ill-equiped and under-educated manager who gets through life by his brown nose or you have forgotten. Having spent most of my career managing people and forced into an Engineering postion due to this Republican led economy I...
  18. Jhewes

    What is 6 sigma in plain language?

    For the crib notes version go to http://www.motivateeveryone.com/SSTsample.pdf Jay Aurthur puts out a cheap and effective simple SPC software that every qquality individual should have check it out and no this is not an adverstisement.
  19. Jhewes

    What are your biggest frustrations about work?

    My boss is a figure head who only has his position through his freindship with the owner. You know the type goes on work-vactions to Brazile with the owner on company time. No real work quality training/experience, college education or decision making ability. This leaves me all of his...
  20. Jhewes

    What makes you most satisfied at your job?

    The joy of shreading 78 + page Quality Mnauals for the new 8 page variety. The culture change from procedure disciplined/assumption based manufacturing to process oriented/metric driven. The awe in an employees eyes when I replace a five page work instruction with a single page visual with...

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