MEs in the '90s: a new partnership with management.

MEs in the '90s: A new partnership with management

What's bugging MEs:

Management lacks vision, too timid and indecisive. High turnover in top management blurs goals. MBA managers don't understand manufacturing. Present manufacturing capabilities are being wasted. Limited capital-equipment funds are being poorly spent. Cutbacks create fear, distrust, job insecurity. Emphasis remains on production volumes, not quality. No rewards for risk taking, so why show initiative. Our engineering staff is too lean to do the job. Computer-terminal work is boring for hands-on vets. MEs should be considered cost reducers, not overhead. Experience is not properly evaluated and rewarded. No career ladder left, nothing to shoot for. Being an ME is not something I'd recommend to my kids.

The ME and the CEO. How many walls exist between you and the top person in your company--the one individual who can either bless of rebuff your best ideas for how to make your manufacturing world class? Too many walls? Fewer walls than five years ago? No walls?

As world competition gets tougher, let's hope this relationship is improving. In most companies, it is because it has to--top m...

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