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Neha Sharma is a Product Manager at Grantek, she has 10+ years of experience in defining technology solutions to solve business/IT problems for manufacturers. Over the years, Neha has worked across various positions such as Software Developer, Module Lead, Techno-Functional Consultant and Manufacturing Engineer. Neha has worked for world class clients across the globe. Neha has experience in the automotive industry, packaging industry, agricultural industry, building materials, food & beverage and pharmaceuticals. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions.   Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Industrial Control System hardware and software, Grantek experts and leaders at best-in-class industry associations that serve Life Sciences and Food & Beverage manufactures.

In this episode's news roundup, The Journal's Executive Editor Theresa Houck reports on issues affecting manufacturers and producers every day, including: The low percentage of risk management leaders who successfully balance data security & business goals. Projected source of most AI data breaches. Large percentage of manufacturing OT devices already vulnerable to ransomware. Projected market growth for cobots, mass flow controllers, and process automation & instrumentation. Updated ISO 10218 global standard for industrial robot safety. SME honors program for manufacturing students & young workers. And more. And as always, get your family-friendly, silly Joke of the Day. Resources from this episode: Learn more about & apply for the SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) “30 for 30” program recognizing talented young manufacturing leaders. Download Claroty's Team82 “State of CPS Security 2025: OT Exposures” report. Request the Process Automation and Instrumentation Market report from Future Market Insights. Download the 2025 edition of ISO 10218 from A3. Subscribe to The Journal's 4 digital magazines at http://rok.auto/thejournal-subscribe.   Please share this episode with someone else who would benefit from the information. And kindly give us a 5-star rating and a review.  Automation Chat is brought to you by The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine. Find us on YouTube. Find us on LinkedIn. Find us on Facebook. Got a topic you want us to cover? Questions or comments? Email Executive Editor Theresa Houck at thouck@endeavorb2b.com. ** Named “Best Podcast” for 3 Consecutive Years! 2022 - 2024 Apex Awards of Publication Excellence.

Are your specification limits holding you back from improving your products and services? Should you throw out specifications? What does Stephen Hawking have to do with it? In this episode, Bill Bellows and host Andrew Stotz discuss specifications and variation. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.5 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. Today is episode 12, and the title is Do Specification Limits Limit Improvement. Bill, take it away.   0:00:31.4 Bill Bellows: Hey, Andrew. How's it going? All right.   0:00:33.8 Andrew Stotz: Great. Great to have you back and great to see you. For those that are just listening, you can watch the video on DemingNEXT. But for those listening, Bill looks handsome, full of energy, ready to go, and it's my 8:30 in the morning in Bangkok, Thailand. So let's rock Bill.   0:00:56.3 Bill Bellows: So. I spoke recently to one of the folks I'd met on LinkedIn that have listened to our podcast and took the offer to reach out and we now talk regularly. And I just wanna say I've gotta, before we get to some, the story behind the title, I wanted to share, a heads up. And if anyone would like a copy of this article that I wanna, take some excerpts from, then just reach out to me on LinkedIn and ask for a copy of the article. The article's entitled 'A Brief History of Quality,' and there's three parts. So it's about 10 pages overall, and it was published in 2015 in the Lean Management Journal, which I don't believe still exists. I was writing articles at the end once a month for this journal, I think based out of the UK.   0:02:04.3 Bill Bellows: I think there was a manufacturing magazine that still exists and had this as a special topic and my interest was bringing Dr. Deming's ideas, to the Lean community, which is why it was a Lean Management Journal, so the article was entitled 'Brief History Equality.' And so I wanna get to those topics, but when I was reading the article, reminding myself of it, I thought, oh, I'll just share this story online with Andrew and our audience. And so here I'm just gonna read the opening paragraph. It says, "several years ago, I had the opportunity to attend an hour-long lecture by Stephen Hawking," right? So the article was written in 2015. So the presentation by Hawking would've been maybe 2012, 2013. And back to the article, it says, "he, Hawking, returns to Pasadena every summer for a one-month retreat, a ritual he started in the 1970s, several thousand attendees sitting in both a lecture hall and outdoors on a lawn area complete with a giant screen were treated to an evening of reflection of the legendary Cambridge physicist."   0:03:14.3 Bill Bellows: And I'll just pause. I have friends who work at JPL and they got me seats, and they got me an inside seat in the balcony, front row of the balcony, but they had big screens outside. I mean, it was like a rock concert for Stephen Hawking, right?   0:03:34.3 Andrew Stotz: That's amazing.   0:03:34.9 Bill Bellows: Oh, it was so cool. Oh, it was so cool. So anyway, "his focus was my brief history offering us a glimpse of his life through a twist on his treatise, A Brief History of Time. His introspective presentation revealed his genius, his humility, his search for black holes, his passion for life, not to mention his dry sense of humor. It ended with questions from three Caltech students, the last of which came from a postdoc student, an inquiry Hawking had likely tackled many times before."   0:04:06.6 Bill Bellows: So realize he's answering the questions through a voice activated thing. And it appeared that the questions were, his answers were prerecorded, but they're still coming through a device that is a synthesized voice. But I get the impression that he knew the questions were coming, so we in the audience were hearing the questions for the first time. But he had already answered the questions. So anyway, it ended with questions. There was an undergraduate student, a graduate student, then a postdoc, and I said, "the last of which came from a postdoc student, an inquiry Hawking had likely tackled many times before. And the student relayed the story of an unnamed physicist who once compared himself to both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein." So this unnamed physicist compared himself to Einstein and Newton each placed on a scale of 1 lowest to 10 highest. "With this context, Hawking was asked where he would rank himself."   0:05:22.0 Bill Bellows: So this physicist said, oh, you know, Andrew, I see myself as this. And so the guy relays the story, and he says to Hawking, so given this other physicist said this, where would you rank yourself? "Well, I do not recall the relative rankings posed in the query. I'll never forget Hawking's abrupt reply. He says, “anyone who compares themselves to others is a loser." And I found online that he was, that commentary, this was not the first time he said that.   0:06:04.9 Andrew Stotz: Right.   0:06:06.5 Bill Bellows: And I just thought, oh, anyone who compares himself to others is a loser. And then the end of the paragraph is "in reference to Dr. Deming," Andrew, "variation, there will always be. So can't we just get used to variation?" So the title, are you in favor? No, no, no, no. That was last time. Are you in favor of improving the quality was number 10. Number 11 was to improve quality, don't measure quality. For 12, the specification limits limit improvement.   0:06:46.9 Andrew Stotz: Now, if that was true, first of all, that would be a little scary, 'cause we spend a lot of time working on specification limits. There's a lot of people working on that.   0:06:55.4 Bill Bellows: But here's what's behind the title. In 1995, I was invited to speak, not for the first time, but for the first time I ever spoke to an audience of the American Society of Quality. It was a San Fernando Valley chapter. I forget the number. I've spoken there many, many times over the years, but this is the first time I ever spoke to quality professionals as opposed to project managers or Society of Manufacturing Engineers. I was there with my wife. There's dinner, then after dinner in the next room, and the chairs were set up, theater style, that'd be 70, 80 people. And I was talking about what I would, I mean, things I still talk about, I talk about new things, to have new things done. But the big thing I was trying to get across the audience is, the difference between meeting requirements, which in this series, we call it acceptability versus desirability, which is, I want this value, I want this professor, I want to date this person. And so I was relaying that concept to that audience. And the question I asked that night was do specification limits limit improvement?   0:08:31.0 Bill Bellows: And there was a guy about seven rows back, and I built up to that. That wasn't the opening thing, but what I was really pushing on was a focus on Phil Crosby's goal of striving for zero defects. And, then what? Once you achieve that, then what? And we've talked about the doorway and that's like the door is closed, we get up to the doorway and we've achieved zero defects. And, what we've talked about is going through the doorway and the attitude is, well, why open the door? I mean, don't open the door, Andrew. There's a wall on the other side of that door, Andrew. So it might be a door, but everybody knows there's a wall behind it, and I was poking at that with this audience, and prepared to show them the value proposition of going through that.   0:09:34.0 Bill Bellows: So anyway, I remember I got to the point of asking, do specification limits limit thinking about improvement or something like that. And a more senior gentleman, about seven or eight rows back, and fortunately, he was seven or eight rows back, fortunately, because he stood up and he says, "Are you saying we don't need specification limits?" There's a lot more anger in his voice. And I said, "No," I said, "I'm saying I think they limit our thinking about improvement." And, but he was really upset with me, and I was deliberately provoking because again, you and I have talked about, how can we inspire through this podcast and other podcasts that you do with the others, to get people to think about the possibilities that Dr. Deming shared with us. And it's not believing that there's a door that you can't walk through. You open the door and there's an opening and you can go through. There's a lot more going on there. So anyway, so I had prepared them. The whole reason for being there was to share what we were doing at Rocketdyne, and not just talk about the possibilities, but show them the possibilities. But he got very upset with me. But if he was in the front row, he might've hit me.   0:11:08.9 Andrew Stotz: May have thrown a book at you.   0:11:11.5 Bill Bellows: Oh, he...   0:11:12.2 Andrew Stotz: May have thrown a Specification Limit at you.   0:11:17.0 Bill Bellows: Twice I've had people get, well, I've gotten a number of people upset with me over the years, but that night was, I'll never forget, and I'll never forget, because my wife was sitting in the front row and she asked me never to be that provocative again. It might be dangerous to my health. But I was doing another class, also for the American Society of Quality, I was a member of the local chapter, and there was a big movement within Rocketdyne that all Quality Engineers within Rocketdyne be Certified Quality Engineers. And so two or three of us from Rocketdyne got involved in helping the local chapter train people to prepare to take this one day exam. Very, very, very rigorous. And it's a valuable credential for quality professionals.   0:12:20.1 Bill Bellows: And so the company was pushing that every single quality engineer was certified. So we did the classes on site. So instead of going to the nearby Cal State Northridge and doing it over there, we wanted to do it onsite, make it easy for our employees to attend. And so I would do one and a half sessions. So a given session was three hours long, and then there'd be a half session. And my topics were Design of Experiments and Dr. Taguchi's work. And so as I got this group this one night for the very first time, I was the second half of that three-hour session, and there's 30 some people in the room at Rocketdyne. And the question I wanted to raise is, why run experiments? What would provoke you to run an experiments either, planned experimentation, Design of Experiments or Dr. Taguchi's approach to it.   0:13:15.1 Bill Bellows: So I was throwing that out and I said, in my experience, we're either applying it to make something better - that's improvement, Andrew, - or we're applying it to find out why something doesn't work, which is rearward looking. And I was saying that in my experience, I spend like a whole lot of time running experiments to solve a problem, to fix something that was broken, to get it back to where it was before the fire alarm, not as much time focusing on good to make it better. And so I was just playing in that space of, you know, I guess I was asking the audience are we running experiments to go from bad to good and stop, or from good to better? And I was playing with that 30 people in the room, and all of a sudden, four or five feet in front of me, this guy stands up, says this is BS, but he didn't use the initials, he actually said the word and walked out of the room. And all of us are looking at him like, and there was no provocation. Now, I admit for the ASQ meeting, I was poking to make sure they were paying attention. Here, I was just plain just, why do we run experiments? So, he stands up, he lets out that word, pretty high volume, storms out of the room.   0:14:42.1 Bill Bellows: Well, at Rocketdyne, you can't... You need a... You have to walk around with someone who works there. You just can't go walk around the place, so I had to quickly get one of my coworkers who was in the room to go escort him to the lobby or else, we're all gonna get fired for having somebody unescorted. So the specification limits limit thinking about improvement, I think they do. I am constantly working with university courses or in my consulting work and acceptability in terms of the quality goal, that this is acceptable, it meets requirements is alive and well and thriving, thriving. And, I think what goes on in organizations, I think there's such a focus on getting things done, that to be done is to be good and is to stop that I could pass my work on to you.   0:15:45.2 Bill Bellows: And, the challenge becomes, even if you're aware that you can walk through the doorway and move from acceptability to desirability, how do you sell that to an organization, which you, what I see in organizations, there's a lot of kicking the can down the road. There's a lot of, and even worse than that, there's a lot of toast scraping going on because there's not a lot of understanding that the person toasting it is over toasting it because all they do is put the toast into the oven. Somebody else takes it out, somebody else scrapes it, somebody else sends it back to a different toaster. And I see a lack of understanding of this because the heads are down. That's part of what I see. What I also see in organizations is, with students is this is their first drop.   0:16:51.0 Bill Bellows: Wherever they are, engineering, manufacturing, quality, they're new, they're excited, they're excited to be on their own, to have an income. And they're taking what they learned in universities, and now, they get to apply it. And I remember what that was like. I worked the summer after getting my bachelor's degree, my last semester, I took a class at heat transfer, the prior semester, took a class in jet engines, and I just fell in love with heat transfer and I fell in love with jet engines. And that summer, I was coming back in the fall to go to graduate school for my master's degree. That summer, I worked for a jet engine company as a heat transfer engineer, I was in heaven.   0:17:37.6 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. That's gotta be the coolest thing.   0:17:40.1 Bill Bellows: Just incredible. So I can imagine people coming out of college, going to work, and you get to apply what you learned. You get to use computers, you get to work with some really cool people, and you're doing what you're doing, and it's a blast. And I think it takes a few years before you start to listen to what the veterans are talking about. And you might hear that they're challenging how decisions are made, they're challenging how the company is run. I think prior to that, your heads are down and you're just the subject matter expert. It could be, you know, engineering and manufacturing, finance, and you're doing what you're doing. Their head is down, you're receiving, you're delivering. I still remember when I went to work with my Ph.D. at the same jet engine company, they hired me back. And, I remember walking down the hallway with a colleague and somebody says, that's the VP of Engineering.   0:18:42.7 Bill Bellows: And I thought, we have a VP of Engineering? I mean, I know we have a Vice President of the United States, but I didn't know anything about titles like that. And I think... And I don't think I'm the only one. I've shared those with some younger folks recently, and they agree, you come in, it's heads down, we don't know management, all I get to work on this great stuff. I go and I, and so what we're, but I think what happens is, I think at some point of time you start to look up and you're hearing what the more senior people that are there are saying you've had some experience. And, I know when people join Rocketdyne, and they would come to my class and I would share these stories that had some things that were, if your experience would be questionable, some other things that are pretty cool.   0:19:34.6 Bill Bellows: And, I just had the feeling and I found out people would walk outta there thinking what you mean that, I mean the things, the use of incentives, like why do we need incentives? But, and what I found was it took a couple of years and I would bump into these same people and they'd say, now I'm beginning to understand what you were talking about and what Dr. Deming was talking about. So I throw that out. For those listeners that are trying to, that are at that phase where you're starting to wonder how are decisions being made? You're wondering what you wanna do in your profession. You're wondering what this Deming stuff is about. A whole lot of this entire series has been targeted at people that are new to Deming's ideas. Or maybe they have some experience, they're getting some exposure through these podcasts either with me and the ones you're doing with John and the others. And so, but the other thing I wanna get into today is this quality thing. I go back to this article. And then I was thinking about this article, things I didn't know when I started researching this article is, this term quality, where does that come from? And the term quality comes from, I got to pull it, I have to scroll through the article. Let me get it, let me get it.   0:21:06.4 Bill Bellows: All right. Here we go. "The word quality," Andrew "has Latin roots, beginning with qualitas coined by Roman philosopher and statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who later became an adversary of Mark Antony." You know, what happened to Cicero? Wasn't pretty.   0:21:32.8 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:21:33.9 Bill Bellows: "Feared by Antony," I wrote, "his power of speech led to his eventual beheading. But long after he introduces fellow Romans to the vocabulary of qualitas, that's quality; quantitas, that's quantity; humanitas, that's humanity; and essentia, which is essential. He's also credited with an extensive list of expressions that translate into English, including difference, infinity, science, and morale. When Plato invented the phrase poiotes for use by his peers." So Plato would've been Greek, "Cicero spoke of qualitas with his peers when focusing on the property of an object, not its quantity." And, what I had in mind there is counting how many things we have, so you come in and you want five apples, five suits, whatever it is, there's the quantity thing. And then what Cicero was trying to do is say, quality is not the number, but quality is a differentiation of not just any suit, not just any...   0:22:53.1 Bill Bellows: And I think that becomes the challenge is, is that still important? So when Dr. Deming came on board in 1980, at the age of 79, when the NBC white paper was written, and people got excited by quality because quality was something that people identified with Japanese products, not with American products.   0:23:19.9 Andrew Stotz: Well, not in 1980.   0:23:21.1 Bill Bellows: Not in 1980...   [laughter]   0:23:22.2 Bill Bellows: I mean, at that time, the auto companies were making a lot of money in repair businesses. And Toyota comes along and says, and the words on the street, our products don't require all that repair. And I thought, yeah. And what was neat about that is when I thought, when you think about differentiation and like how do you sell quality? Because, again, I find it, for the longest time, beginning in 1980, quality was hot. Quality improvement. I mean, the American Society of Quality membership skyrocketed. Their membership has dropped like a rock since then because they don't have this Deming guy around that got them going.   0:24:12.1 Bill Bellows: Now, they're still big in the Six Sigma, but I don't believe their membership is anything like it was, but what I was thinking and getting ready for tonight is the economics of quality is from a consumer, what, at least, when my wife and I buy Toyota, it's a value proposition. It's the idea that if we buy Toyota, in our experience, we're getting a car that doesn't break down as often, is far more reliable. That becomes the differentiation. Also in the first... In the second series, second podcast of this series, we talked about the eight dimensions of quality and David Garvin's work.   0:25:03.2 Bill Bellows: And one of them was features, that a car with cup holders is quality 'cause... And there was a time, and the more cup holders, the better. And that was... And Garvin was saying lots of features is quality. He said, reliability could perceived it as a dimension of quality. Conformance was one of the dimensions, and he attributed that to the traditional thinking of Crosby. Reliability is a thing. And so when it comes to, how do you sell quality today? How do you get people within your organizations to go beyond, 'cause what I see right now is it's almost as if quality has gone back to quantity, that it's gone, that it's lost its appeal. Now, quantity doesn't lose its appeal 'cause we're selling, five of them, 20 of them, 30 of them.   0:26:09.2 Bill Bellows: But I don't get the impression from students and others that I interact with, that quality has big appeal. But, if we convert quality to the ability to do more with less, I mean the, when I'm delivering a higher quality item to you within the organization, that it's easier for you to integrate, to do something with, that's money, that's savings of time. And the question is, well, I guess how can we help make people more aware that when you go through the door of good and go beyond looking good and start to think about opportunities for desirable? And again, what we've said in the past is there's nothing wrong with tools, nothing wrong with the techniques to use them, there's nothing wrong with acceptability, but desirability is a differentiator.   0:27:15.2 Bill Bellows: And then the challenge becomes, if everyone's focused on acceptability, where it makes sense, then within your organization going beyond that, as we've explained, and this is where Dr. Taguchi's work is very critical. Dr. Deming learned about desirability from Dr. Taguchi in 1960. And that's what I think is, for all this interest in Toyota, I guess my question is, why is everybody excited by Toyota? Is it because they do single-minute exchange of dies? I don't think so. Is it because they do mixed model production? They can have, in one production line have a red car followed by a blue car, followed by a green car as opposed to mass production? Or is it because of the incredible reliability of the product? That's my answer, and I'm sticking to it. So...   0:28:14.3 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:28:14.7 Bill Bellows: So what do you think Andrew?   0:28:17.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. There's two things that I was thinking about. One of the things I was thinking about is the idea if we're doing good with quality, and maybe we're satisfied with good, I was thinking about the book 'Good to Great,' and like how do you make this breakthrough? And then I was maybe it's good to groundbreaking or good to amazing or whatever. But like, when you really go beyond specification limits and take it to the next level, it's like you're moving from good to great. And one of the things that I see a lot is that, and I talk a lot in my corporate strategy courses with my clients and with my students is this idea that Deming really hit home about, about focusing on your customer, not your competitor.   0:29:06.6 Andrew Stotz: And I just feel like humans have a need to classify everything, to name everything, to label everything. And once they've got that label, that's the specification. That's what we want, they will fixate on that. And whether, I think, you think about all the kids that come out of the out of some meeting with a doctor and say, oh, I'm ADHD. Okay, we got a label now that's good and bad. And so that's where I think it, when I thought about the specification limits limit improvement, I think that, specification to me, when I think about quality, I think about setting a standard, moving to a, a new standard, and then maintaining that standard. And I can see the purpose of limits and controls and trying to understand how do we maintain that. But if we only stay on maintaining that and never move beyond that, then are we really, are we really in pursuit of quality?   0:30:12.0 Andrew Stotz: Now, on the other hand, when I think about the customers of my coffee factory, CoffeeWORKS and they want the exact same experience every single morning. Now, if we can make tests and do PDSAs to improve how we're doing that, less resources, better inputs and all that, great, but they do not want a difference. And I was just thinking about it also in relation to my evaluation masterclass bootcamp, where I still have a lot of variation coming out at the end of the bootcamp. Now, in the beginning, this is bootcamp number 19. So I've done this a lot. In the beginning, man, I would have, someone really terrible and someone really great, and I wasn't satisfied. So I kept trying to improve the content, the process, the feedback to make sure that by the time they get to the end, but I was just frustrated yesterday thinking there's still a lot of variation that, and I'm not talking about, the variation of a personality or something.   0:31:15.2 Andrew Stotz: I'm just talking about the variation of understanding and implementing what they're learning. And then I was thinking as I was at the park running this morning, I was thinking like, what makes Toyota so great is that there is very little variation of the 10 million cars that they've produced last year. And how impressive that is when all I'm trying to do is do it in a small little course. So I don't know, those are some things that were coming into my head when I thought about what you're talking about.   0:31:44.6 Bill Bellows: But no, you're right, in terms of the coffee, and I think you brought up a couple of good points. One is when the customer wants that flavor, whatever that level is, now, but that, I don't know how, anything about measuring taste, but there could be, within the range, within that, when they say they want that flavor, I mean, that could still have, could be a pretty broad spectrum. So maybe there's the ability to make it more consistent within that, if that's possible.   0:32:27.8 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, I think that, I think, like we have a blend we call Hunter's Brew, and I drink that every single morning and I can say, yeah, there's a variation, but it's a small enough variation that it doesn't bother me at all. And I think it doesn't bother our customer. Could we get more conformity to that? Yes, I think we could reduce that. Is it worth it? That's another question. We're looking at some automated equipment, some automated roasting equipment that would bring automation that would allow us to reduce that variation a bit. Will the customer notice that or not? Maybe. But the customer will definitely notice if we're outside of specification limits or if it's burnt...   0:33:12.7 Bill Bellows: Yes.   0:33:13.5 Andrew Stotz: As an example, and we're still shipping it, you know, they'll definitely notice that. And we have our mechanisms to try to measure that so that we are within those limits. So I do see, I see that the function of that to me is like, okay, in fact, in any business, you're constantly chasing and putting out fires. I mean, there's always things going on in every business owner's situation.   0:33:38.6 Bill Bellows: Right.   0:33:39.9 Andrew Stotz: And so there's at points where it's like, okay, can you just keep that in specification limit for right now while I get over to here and fix how we're gonna make sure that this is at another level where that is, I would consider it kind of an improvement versus maintaining. But I don't know, I'm just, I'm riffing here, but those are some things in my head.   0:34:00.0 Bill Bellows: No, what I hear you talking about is if we shift from quality management to, I mean, what desirability is about is looking at things as a system. Acceptability is about looking at things in isolation and saying, this is good, this is good, this is good, this is good. Not necessarily with a lot of focus of how is that used. So if we move away from quality and really what we're talking about is a better way to run an organization with a sense of connectedness that we're, we can talk about working together. Well, it's hard to work together if the fundamental mindset is: here, Andrew, my part is good and I wash my hands of it. When you come back and say, well, Bill, I'm having trouble integrating it, that's more like working separately.   0:35:07.2 Bill Bellows: So if we shift the focus from quality, which could be really narrow, it could be an entry point, but I think if we step back, I mean the title of Dr. Deming's last book was 'The New Economics,' the idea which has to be, which to me, which is about a resource. The better we manage the organization as a system, the more we can do with less. And relative to the quality of the taste and yeah, the customers want this and maybe we can make that even more consistent simultaneously. Can we use control charts to see special causes before they get too far downstream that allows us to maintain that consistency? That'd be nice. Then can we figure out ways to expand our capacity as we gain more? So there's a whole lot to do. So the organization is not static. And simultaneously the challenge becomes how do we stay ahead of others who might be trying to do the same thing? Dr. Deming would say, be thankful for a good competitor. Are we just gonna sit there and say, oh, we're the only coffee... We're the only ones in house that know how to do this. What is our differentiator? And I think having a workforce that thinks in terms of how the activities are connected, that are constantly involved in improvement activities.   0:36:45.1 Bill Bellows: Short of that, what you're hoping is that no one comes along in... Remember the book, it was required reading within Boeing, sadly, 'Who Moved My Cheese?'   0:36:58.2 Andrew Stotz: It was required reading at Pepsi when I was there, and I hated that book. We had another one called 'The Game of Work,' which I just was so annoyed with, but that 'Who Moved My Cheese?' I never, never really enjoyed that at all.   0:37:07.0 Bill Bellows: We used to laugh about, within Rocketdyne 'cause, and for those who aren't aware of the book, the storyline is that there's a bunch of mice and they're living in their little cubby holes and every day they go through the mouse hole, try to avoid the cat, find the cheese, bring the cheese back into their cubby hole, and that life is good. And then one day, somebody steals the cheese, moves the cheese and one's kind of frantic and the other's like, oh, not to worry, Andrew, I'm sure it was taken by a nice person and I'm sure they'll return it. So I wouldn't lose sleep over that. That's okay. That's okay. And then kind of the moral was another company is stealing your cheese and you're sitting there thinking everything's okay, and next thing you know, you're outta business because you weren't paying attention. And so the, and it was, this is written for adults with cartoons of cheese. That's how you appeal... That's how...   0:38:15.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. So that's what got me annoyed about it because it felt like, just tell me what you're trying to tell me, okay. Instead of telling me this story. But yeah, it was a used to create the burning platform concept that was used... I know at Pepsi when I was there, they talked about the burning platform, the level of urgency, we're gonna get, and, and there's, I kind of understand where they were coming from with it, but yeah.   0:38:44.7 Bill Bellows: But what is interesting is nowhere in the book was a strategy to be the ones moving the cheese. What it was more like is don't be in an environment where somebody else moves the cheese. Don't be that company. And I thought, no, you wanna be the company that's moving the cheese. But that was, maybe that's an advanced book that hasn't come out yet.   [laughter]   0:39:08.6 Bill Bellows: But really...   0:39:10.5 Andrew Stotz: There's some work for you, Bill.   0:39:12.6 Bill Bellows: But, but that's what... I mean what Dr. Deming is talking about is having an environment where you have that capacity on an ongoing basis. First of all, you're not sitting back stopping at good, thinking that what you're doing is always acceptable. It's trying to do more with that. Anyway, that's what I wanted to explore today. Again, there's nothing wrong with specification limits. I told the gentleman that night, specification limits are provided to allow for variation, to allow for commerce, to allow for suppliers to provide things that meet requirements. Then the question becomes, is there value in doing something with a variation within the specification limits? Is there value in moving that variation around? And that's the desirability focus. That is what Ford realized Toyota was doing a lot, is that then improves the functionality of the resulting product, it improves its reliability. All of that is the possibility of going beyond meeting requirements. So it's not that we shouldn't have, we need specifications. Why? Because there's variation. And if we didn't allow for variation, we couldn't have commerce because we can't deliver exactly anything. So I just want, just for some...   0:40:34.9 Andrew Stotz: Okay, all right. That's a good one.   0:40:37.4 Bill Bellows: All right.   0:40:38.2 Andrew Stotz: And I'll wrap it up with a little humor.   0:40:40.4 Bill Bellows: Go ahead.   0:40:40.5 Andrew Stotz: There were some parody books that came out, in relation to 'Who Moved My Cheese.' In 2002, the book 'Who Cut the Cheese' by Stilton Jarlsberg, which was good. And in 2011 was, 'I Moved Your Cheese' by Deepak Malhotra. So there you go. A little humor for the day. Bill, on behalf of everybody at The Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you want to keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn. He responds. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. I just love this quote. I think about it all the time. "People are entitled to joy in work."  

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers for New Brunswick Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 2141 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of New Brunswick. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for New Brunswick are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 10 | 15 | 120 | 130 | 155 | 190 | 160 | 70 | 180  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers for Alberta Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 2141 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Alberta. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Alberta are shown as a blank.  | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | - | - | 15 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 10 | 30 If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

The number one challenge I see with the leaders is wanting to understand WHY they're not taking people with them to deliver their big vision. In this episode I'm uncovering the factors that may be influencing this.I'm talking with Julie Hutchison a soft skills and communications expert who works with leaders in the tech industry. We discuss:what a background in policing teaches you about leadershipleaders being set up to fail by focussing on specialist skillswhy soft skills are hardthe real reasons why people might not be performing wellthe 'can't do, won't do, don't do' frameworkself-awareness and development to improve team performanceskilled conversations to win hearts and minds.Julie's BioJulie Hutchison of Think Be Do LeadershipJulie is a Team Performance and Leadership Specialist, focusing on helping Tech leaders to build soft skills and communication confidence and influence to build performance and productivity in their teams. After an initial career as a Manufacturing Engineer, Julie then spent 16 years as a Police Inspector in the UK police force, ranging from working with prolific offenders, to senior policing leadership, government and community roles.In policing, she learned to build relationships in minutes, and influence people in seconds. This became a key part of Julie's success in dealing with the criminal side, but also in managing her team of 54 officers and civilian staff.From that experience, along with her Technical background, she has developed the Team Performance Engine™, a practical and effective methodology for Leadership and Team Performance that.Resources and helpful linksThink Be Do Leadership Training and Coaching for CTO and Tech LeadersLinkedInAbout leaders with impactWant to know the secret of great leaders? In Leaders with impact we'll be exploring what makes an impactful leader; sharing stories of success and strategies that set them apart.If you are ambitious for your organisation but are struggling to identify what you can do differently as a leader to deliver the right improvements, then hit subscribe to learn how you can get clear on your strategy, implement some self-leadership and connect with those you serve.New episodes are released every fortnight. Get in touchIf you enjoyed the episode please leave a review on Apple podcasts (or your app of choice) and let me know what you thought on LinkedIn or instagram. I'll be back with the next episode in two weeks so in the meantime remember to sign up to my newsletter to get notified of new episodes, guest appearances and further insights on how to lead with impact.

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers for All of Canada  Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario  The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 2141 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of All of Canada. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for All of Canada are shown as a blank.  | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023  |    10   |   20   |   150  |   160  |  185   |    230 |   220 |   90    |   230  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers for Ontario Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 2141 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 21321 Industrial and manufacturing engineers through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Ontario. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Ontario are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |         - |         - |       5 |        5 |          - |         - |       5 |          - | 5  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Bob Willig is an experienced executive who, after years of roles with GKN, the Gates Corporation, and others, became the Executive Director of SME (the Society of Manufacturing Engineers). In this episode of the 3DPOD, we talk to him about what SME is, what it does, and how it aims to grow 3D printing. In addition to Bob, we are also joined by Angie Szerlong, who has been a key leader of the RAPID + TCT event since 2001. She talks to us about this year's RAPID + TCT and gives advice on what to do if you're a new visitor or an exhibitor. We talk to both Angie and Bob about the future of additive manufacturing, important developments, and the future of events.

Welcome back! In this episode, we're going to talk about why it's important to get your foot in the door—THEN navigate your career. You'll meet three Cameron-Brooks alumni who have successfully made the transition to the business world, all have been promoted and navigated their careers wisely. Two of them happen to be married! We were fortunate enough to have Chazz Hoskins, along with Luke and Marquette Leveque share their experiences with us. This episode was originally intended for them to share their experience in the Engineering Management Career Field. In this episode, Joel and the Panel discuss the misperceptions of Engineering Management, explain what Engineering Management is along with the competencies required to be successful, describe how diversified the work is, and provide the listeners with some sample industries. However, we felt our alumni were great examples of former junior military officers who made decisions early on in their careers that helped them establish a track record of success, build a skillset, and then make decisions that pivoted closer towards their ideal personal and professional goals. Chazz made the transition from the Air Force as a Developmental Engineer and launched his career with Lam Research as a Manufacturing Engineer in Silicon Valley. Lam Research makes advanced microchips that are in many familiar products we use every day such as our mobile phones, computing devices, entertainment systems, and even smart cars! He and his wife then decided it was time to move back to Ohio. Chazz navigated his career and now works with Silflex, a division of Lam Research, they've bought a home and are living in their dream location. Chris built a skillset and navigated to the ideal location! Marquette and Luke Leveque were classmates at the Naval Academy, Navy Nuclear Submarine Officers, came through the Cameron-Brooks program in 2018 and attended the April 2018 Career Conference. TOGETHER, they launched their careers at Boston Scientific, a leading medical device company that makes innovative solutions and medical devices to help improve the health of patients around the world. Marquette began her career in a Process Development Manager role where she led a team of engineers to successfully implement large-scale manufacturing processes for new biopharmaceutical products. She then wanted to be closer to the customer and is now in a marketing role with Boston Scientific. Luke launched his career as an Operations Project Manager where he led a cross-functional team moving new products out of the research and design stage into the manufacturing stage, and ultimately into commercial use. Luke has now shifted into a marketing role on the commercial side of the business leading their laser therapies team. Luke and Marquette navigated their career to the desired roles! Career Management When I meet with junior military officers to discuss their career goals, I ask a lot of questions to get to know them. One of those questions I ask is, “Why are you leaving the military?”. I often get the answer, “For more career control”. Makes sense! In the military, most decisions are made for you. You haven't necessarily had to make decisions as it pertains to “Career Management”. Your detailer, branch manager, or assignment officer makes it for you. It's also a specific career path within your MOS. If you deviate from it, you may not be selected for command or make the next rank and will be forced to make the transition out. For example, you are told when to move, when it is time for a new assignment, which organization, or unit you will join, etc. While this can make life hard for military officers, it does free them from the responsibility of “Career Management”. To some, that may be ideal. For some, it's not. In the business world, there are no scholarship contracts, assignments officers, early outs, PCS commitments, ADSOs, or mandatory job changes. Regardless of your company,

As Metal AM Production Manager with Endeavor 3D, Tibor Gyorfi has contributed significantly to its manufacturing business by first learning the metal binder jet process and then leading the lofty project of building the metal additive system from the ground up at Endeavor 3D's 65,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility. This work among other impressive projects such as a recent partnership with HP and production of a service tool which solved a specific problem for a major EV automaker, resulted in recent recognition as one of SME, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers 30 Under 30 program honorees.Sponsored By:

NASA's Terran 1 rocket is the world's largest 3D-printed object, made entirely of 3D-printed parts. It's safe to say 3D-printed rockets wouldn't be possible without the work of engineers such as David Scannapieco, Scientific Development Manager with NSL Analytical Services. As Scientific Development Manager, David works in formulating and testing new materials to ensure the highest manufacturing standards are met. David contributed to the Terran 1 rocket as a Graduate Student Researcher at the NASA Glenn Research Center through the development of the rocket's combustion chamber, a 3D printed part made from the GRCop-42 alloy in situ with laser powder bed fusion. David was recently honored by SME, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in SME's 30 Under 30 program for his impact on manufacturing.Sponsored By:

Celebrate Engineers Week with ASSEMBLY Audible and award-winning Trane Technologies' SMART Transformation Engineer, Rashmi Vadlakonda. Rashmi was recently recognized as one of SME's 2023 30 Under 30 honorees for her impact in the manufacturing space. She joins us on the podcast to talk about her work up to now including solving a pressing supply chain issue using her knowledge of 3D printing and acting as a role model in the community through her involvement with Women in Manufacturing South Carolina. Sponsored By:

Video Version About the Podcast My guest today is Scott Lushin, Senior Manager of Global Operational Excellence at Donaldson Company, Incorporated. In this episode, Scott takes us through his professional journey. Starting off in retail automotive and the restaurant business, it is obvious that has two passions; problem solving and leadership. Although his passion for problem-solving made itself readily apparent in his early life, his skills in leadership made themselves known later and over time. Scott started his journey right out of high school at an automotive service chain where he became manager and then training manager. After a few years, he eventually moved on to work in the food industry at a chain of restaurants; becoming training manager then district manager. Against his mother's advice against seeking a job in manufacturing, he joined Donaldson through a temp-agency. He has always been a ‘thinker', a problem solver, even as a kid he loved to solve problems. The more complex the problem, the more fun they were to solve. He could spend days trying to unravel a problem and eventually he got very good at it. His problem-solving specialty is manufacturing and process improvements. Scott sees the world through a different lens, which is why he is often called upon to solve complex problems. He especially loves being thrown into a complex problem and forming a team to tackle it. Even though Scott did not (and does not still) have a college degree, Donaldson must have seen something in Scott, as he has been there 32 years. He has held positions and roles too varied to list, but include: Operations Supervisor, Manufacturing Engineer, C.I. Engineer, C.I. Specialist, Operations Management, and since 2019 leading efforts with Global Operational Excellence. There was a time when a person without a college degree could grow to leadership roles in a company and Scott is living proof. Has that time passed? Or has enough time not passed to make that determination. We shall see. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlushin/ Company: Donaldson Company, Incorporated Title: Senior Manager, Global Operational Excellence Website: https://www.donaldson.com/ Year Founded: 1915 Company Type: Publicly Traded (DCI) About: Donaldson Company, Inc. manufactures and sells filtration systems and replacement parts worldwide.  The company operates through three segments: Mobile Solutions, Industrial Solutions, and Life Sciences.  Its Mobile Solutions segment provides replacement filters for air and liquid filtration applications, such as air filtration systems; liquid filtration systems for fuel, lube, and hydraulic applications; exhaust and emissions systems and sensors; indicators; and monitoring systems.  This segment sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the construction, mining, agriculture, aerospace, defense, and transportation markets; and to independent distributors, and OEM dealer networks.  The company's Industrial Solutions segment offers dust, fume, and mist collectors; compressed air and industrial gasses purification systems; and hydraulic and lubricated rotating equipment applications, as well as gas and liquid filtration for industrial processes.  This segment sells its products to various distributors, OEMs, and end-users.  Its Life Sciences segment provides micro-environment gas and liquid filtration for food, beverage, and industrial processes; bioprocessing equipment, that includes bioreactors and fermenters; and bioprocessing consumables, such as chromatography devices, reagents and filters, and polytetrafluoroethylene membrane-based products, as well as specialized air and gas filtration systems for applications, including hard disk drives, semi-conductor manufacturing and sensors, battery systems, and powertrain components to OEMs and various end-users.

⭐ My guest today is Brad Hartwig, CEO and Cofounder of Arbor. Arbor is a carbon removal and storage company delivering carbon-negative power that converts organic waste into clean energy and fresh water. Their CTO Andres Garcia-Clark and lots of other team members bring lessons learned from SpaceX and big energy giants. In addition, he was a former… Manufacturing Engineer for Crew Dragon Engines at SpaceX engineer Test Pilot for Kitty Hawk's 100% electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle Chief Propulsion Engineer at the USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Member of the Marin County Search and Rescue ---

Canada Work Permit figures since 2006 for 21321, Title: Industrial and manufacturing engineers for 15 past years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this Data Analysis release. Today is the 04/08/2023. We are coming to you today from the Polinsys Studios in Cambridge, Ontario. This video may be of interest to foreign nationals and Canadian temporary residents targeting Work Permits or Employer driven programs. This data is about 21321, Title: Industrial and manufacturing engineers for 15 years from 2006. This class of work permit is issued by the Canadian Government if selected by a Canadian Employer for a position in Canada. This important data will give you some understanding on the number of people being selected by employers and the work permit processed every year since 2006. In 2006, the total number of Work Permit issued was 56 In 2007, the total number of Work Permit issued was 57 In 2008, the total number of Work Permit issued was 73 In 2009, the total number of Work Permit issued was 47 In 2010, the total number of Work Permit issued was 69 In 2011, the total number of Work Permit issued was 94 In 2012, the total number of Work Permit issued was 81 In 2013, the total number of Work Permit issued was 67 In 2014, the total number of Work Permit issued was 118 In 2015, the total number of Work Permit issued was 388 In 2016, the total number of Work Permit issued was 352 In 2017, the total number of Work Permit issued was 384 In 2018, the total number of Work Permit issued was 408 In 2019, the total number of Work Permit issued was 494 In 2020, the total number of Work Permit issued was 203 If you have experience in 21321 and hold the Job Title or group Industrial and manufacturing engineers, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally.  Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

  Tom Burbage retired from the Lockheed Martin Corporation in April 2013. He was the President of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Company and the Executive VP/GM for both the USAF F-22 Raptor and the multi-service, allied next generation fighter, the F-35.   Prior to joining Lockheed, Mr. Burbage was a Naval Aviator, completing the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in 1975. He has accumulated more than 3,000 hours in 38 different types of military aircraft. As a reservist he retired as a Navy Captain in 1994. Mr. Burbage has received numerous industry awards, including the U.S. Naval Academy/Harvard Business Review Award for Ethical Leadership; the Aerospace Industry Personality of the Year; the  Society of Automotive Engineers Leadership in Aerospace Award; the Donald C. Burnham Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Silver Knight Award from the National Management Association; three Aviation Week Magazine Laurels Awards and the  Society of Experimental Test Pilots James H Doolittle Award for outstanding accomplishment in technical management and engineering achievement in aerospace technology. He was elected an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in recognition of notable contributions to the arts, sciences and technology of aeronautics and astronautics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in the United Kingdom. Mr. Burbage received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and holds master's degrees in Aeronautical Systems from the University of West Florida and Business Administration from UCLA. Tom and his wife, Ellen, reside in Alpharetta, Ga., and have three daughters and twelve grandchildren. The authors' website is https://f35insidestory.shop

Sergio Trevino is a creative-thinking manufacturing engineer with a deep passion for problem-solving by design. He graduated from UANL, Nuevo Leon State public university, as a Manufacturing Engineer with a minor in Product Design. Sergio is currently working on getting an MBA at Jack Welch Management University. He wants to help everyone use their resources better, deliver a manufacturable product to reach all the places, and still provide nice-to-see results. Sergio always strives to go beyond expectations to leverage operations with what he is learning, and designing. Moreover, develop business with his passions: manufacturing, design, and leadership.

An episode for fans of all things Manufacturing! Joel and Brian Wickham, Assistant Professor at HVCC and Manufacturing Engineer, share enlightening and entertaining stories, experiences, knowledge and factory floor wisdom learned over the years. Learn more about Hudson Valley Community College | HVCC

Dave Cranstoun came to Triangle as a CO-OP in the summer of 2015 and was hired full time in the spring of 2017. Hi is now a Manufacturing Engineer. Nicholas Magro first came to Triangle as a college CO-OP in the summer of 2017. He was hired full time in 2019 and is now a Quality Engineer. They share a unique perspective having had this CO-OP opportunity in their careers. This advantage has become their compass as they navigate their roles as mentors to the CO-OP class of 2022. They have been collaborating for months to make sure they provide extraordinary learning experiences for these future Engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscribe to the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-triangle-podcast/id1551511521 Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trianglemfgnj/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trianglemanufacturing

The National Defense Security Briefing Series is a program of quarterly discussions on issues and areas of the world where US vital national interests are at stake in the 21st Century. The series is jointly sponsored by the Dallas Chapters of the Navy League, the Air & Space Forces Association, the Association of the US Army, the Military Order of the World Wars, and the Jewish War Veterans. While we all support our individual programs and charities, this program is designed to bring us together in support of the issues we share in common. Heritage Ranch hosts the series that attracts a broad audience of people from all over North Texas. In this episode Super Dave Quinn is joined by 3 key members of the National Defense Security Briefing Series. Ted Puchacz, Former Machine Accountant Intelligence, Navy.  (Ted lives in Heritage Ranch) Board Member ted@ndbsinc.org Military Background Ted is a veteran of the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and SHAPE War Headquarters. He retired from the Navy as a MA2, Intelligence, after 6.5 years of active service. He worked on the development of intelligence during the Cuban Missile Crisis, development and deployment of the IOIC database on NAVY carriers as well as serving at SHAPE, Panda Division, developing systems for both NATO & US Eucom. During his time in service, Ted has worked with a variety of US & NATO intelligence services.  Charles Daniels, Former Lieutenant, U.S. Navy President charles@ndbsinc.org Chuck served in the United States Navy from 1978 to 1984, as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Pacific on destroyers and as a Liaison Officer between Commander Naval Surface Forces Pacific (COMNAVSURFPAC) and the First Division of the United States Marine Corp (FIRSTMARDIV) Camp Pendleton. After leaving the U.S. Navy, Chuck began a 30-year career working for Texas Instruments Defense Equipment Group and Raytheon. Throughout his entire post-military career, he supported Top Secret U.S. Navy technology research programs as well as intelligence development programs. He has been a Manufacturing Engineer, had roles in business development, finance and contracts. When Chuck retired from Raytheon, he was managing approximately $1B in defense contracts.   Charles became the Commander of the Dallas Chapter of MOWW in July of 2020 and led the Dallas Chapter to the “Best Large Chapter” award by June 2021. He has been awarded the MOWW Silver Patrick Henry Award, the MOWW Gold Patrick Henry Award, the Chapter Commander Emeritus Award, the MOWW National Citation and the U.S. House of Representatives Certificate of Congressional Recognition Award. John Campbell, Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force, Retired Vice President john@ndbsinc.org John retired from the Air Force in 2003 as a Lieutenant General. His 32-year military career included operational and staff assignments all over the world. He commanded two fighter wings and has 3,600 flying hours in the T-38, F-15 and F-16 aircraft. In his last tours in Washington, he served as the Deputy Director for Operations, Joint Staff; the Deputy Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency/Commander, Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense; and as the Associate Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency. After retiring from the Air Force John worked for Applied Research Associates in Arlington, VA and in 2006 joined Iridium Communications, Inc. McLean VA as the Executive Vice President for Government Programs, managing Iridium's core government communications services as well as numerous classified programs serving DoD and other US Government customers. He currently serves as Chairman of Iridium Communications' Government Advisory Board and represents Iridium at the working level on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Board. General Campbell is a member of the National Security Advisory Council of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Washington DC; and is a senior advisor to the President of the University of Maryland Global Campus and the Cyber Center for Education and Innovation, Fort Meade, Maryland. John is a member of the advisory board of Untrafficked, a national organization dedicated to combatting child sex trafficking. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Veterans Center of North Texas and serves as President of the Dallas Chapter of the Air Force Association.

Jake Hall, also known as the Manufacturing Millennial joins David Grussenmeyer for a great discussion on the outlook on education within the manufacturing industry. They dive in and discuss the effects of the OT and IT convergence in manufacturing, the new generation of manufacturing engineers, and how education is evolving to meet today's manufacturing needs. Jake and David also talk about the challenges of education and how the pandemic revealed opportunities in manufacturing.

In this week's episode, Clayton interviews Latoya Benally, who is a Manufacturing Engineer with the Boeing Company, based out of Mesa, AZ where she helps to build AH-64 Apache Helicopters that are used to protect and help our military personal here and abroad. Benally talks about her journey and how she decided to become an Engineer and what it took to get where she is today. She hopes to serve as an inspiration for other Native American students out there who want to pursue this kind of career. Thanks everybody for being here with us. Ahe'hee doo Ya'at'eeh Keshmish.Support the showFollow Us on Facebook and Instagram at @hozhospeaks

Engineering Success interview Caitlin McCall a Senior Research Engineer at Manufacturing Technology Centre in the field of Automation and Electronics. She is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Previously, she was a Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Swansea University where she worked towards her ESPRC funded Engineering Doctorate in printed electronics for flexible packaging. She has published a paper in biosensors for glucose detection and is writing several more from her doctoral research. In 2021, Caitlin was awarded a place in the prestigious WES Top 50 Female Engineers list and a We Are The City Rising Star Award in 2022 for her contributions to the engineering industry. Caitlin is passionate about developing peoples' skill sets and supporting her community. She enjoys promoting engineering as Chair for the Women's Engineering Society's (WES) Early Careers Board and member of the WES Event Directors Committee.

Justin is the Principal Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Ursa Major Technologies and used to run materials at SpaceX Questions we cover on the show: Is it possible to 3D print engines or motors using additive manufacturing with metal?  Do those engines/motors have different design constraints? What time frame would it be until a consumer/tinkerer could get their hands on something affordable that could help them build motors/engines at their house? What is the impact of AI on the design process for additive manufacturing? Who are some other people I should interview in the space to get an idea of where this is headed? Ursa major exists because of 3D printing Shortens the window Will this change the automotive industry? Will 3D printing ever challenge traditional manufacturing? Powdered fusion How many other companies have been created  What is a thrust chamber? What are the key components to a rocket? What are the downsides to making 3D parts? Are those downsides changing with material sciences? What is the future of space mining and are we going to get there? How much is a metal 3D printer? How is all of this going to change China's future? Is china keeping up with the US in terms of 3d printing? What is going to happen with Germany? What about asteroid mining? Does Ursa Major What does it mean to have a high capacity, low launch cost? Falcon engine is heavy Dragon capsule is the only returnable part of the engine What is your optimism or pessimism for humans conquering the solar system? What are the industries that are outside of satellites? How do you find the problems that AI is good at solving? Why did you get into this? What do the manufacturing  What is the percentage of parts of a rocket that are off the shelf? What are the major innovations in materials development? New alloys Tailoring alloys to specific needs What is the future of manufacturing? How has AI changed tailoring alloys? What are the jobs of the engineer that will be AI'ed out? What is the role of craftmanship as AI changes things? How is titanium helping medical additive manufacturing? What is directed energy deposition (DED)? Wire fed DED CNC plasma  Powered bed binder jet Ceramic sand How far away are we from a star trek future where we can print anything?

Nigel Southway is the author of two books, the most recent is called Take Back Manufacturing, and his original was called Lean Manufacturing. He has spent 55 years in the manufacturing space. He was the chair of a chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, which I was also a part of starting over 10 years ago. Today Nigel en is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can decide between offshore and onshore manufacturing, what the pros and cons are for each choice, explain short-run manufacturing for new products, and how we can bring back manufacturing to local communities. Today you will hear us talk about: Look at local vs offshore carefully Run the numbers of manufacturing Benefits of on-shore manufacturing Technology that is enabling local manufacturing for new physical products Short run manufacturing Take back manufacturing: Political, Educational, and Technology The difference, on average, is only about 10% EPISODE LINKS Nigel Southway / Take Back Manufacturing Links: Website: https://nigelsouthwayauthor.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelsouthway/ The Product Startup Podcast Links: Website: https://www.ProductStartup.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ProductStartup/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ProductStartup/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ProductStartup/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProductStartup/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ProductStartup/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProductStartup YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MakoInvent Mako Design Links: Website: https://www.makodesign.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MakoInvent Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MakoInvent/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/MakoDesign/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MakoInvent/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/MakoInvent/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MakoInvent/ Kevin Mako Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Entrepreneurs/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/KevMako/ Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Kevin-Mako Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevMakoPage/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevMako/ About: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. Also, our founder Kevin Mako hosts The Product Startup Podcast, the industry's leading hardware podcast. Check it out for tips, interviews, and best practices for hardware startups, inventors, and product developers. Click HERE to learn more about Mako Design + Invent!

Are you a leader that sacrifices health for the sake of growth? In this episode, our guest is Zach Estes, a Manufacturing Engineer by trade; who has experience in manufacturing operations, hospital operations, and media operations, and now leading Path for Growth as Chief Operating Officer alongside Alex Judd. He's passionate about healthy growth and applying operational principles in life and business.   In our conversation, Zach digs into some lessons he learned from his time as a manufacturing engineer that has helped him to be an effective operator in today's business landscape. He stresses the importance of visibility in business and how manufacturing principles can be applied to any type of business. Zach breaks down the principles that he uses to run an efficient, effective, and enjoyable business and what has led him to achieve healthy growth. Listen and enjoy!   Key Highlights:   [00:01 - 06:58] Opening Segment • Zach shares his journey as a manufacturing engineer How he ended up being the COO of Path for Growth Helping leaders grow their businesses without losing themselves in the process • Make work visible for better communication and understanding between team members and customers   [06:59 - 19:58] Path of Healthy Growth for Businesses • Zach discloses the four steps to Path for Growth Standardization, documentation, evaluation, and improvement • How Path for Growth help businesses achieve success • Why individual growth is a key element Not sacrificing one's personal life to achieve success in one's business. • There must be intentionality and energy put into pursuing healthy growth to maintain a flourishing business   [19:59 - 32:11] The Importance of Downtime • The key to a successful company is having a clear mission, focus, and passion Leaders need to communicate these values to their team for them to be attentive and motivated • Why downtime is expensive, and leaders need to be aware of this to manage it effectively Planned downtime vs unplanned downtime • Taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and spiritually is important for long-term success   [32:12 - 35:52] Closing Segment • Learn more about Zach with the Rapid Fire Questions!  • Q&A: Should you share your financials with your team?   Connect with Zack on LinkedIn. Head to Path of Growth, and find out how to practice healthy growth!   Key Quotes:   "If you know how you create and deliver value for your customer, then you'll know how you don't do that to you." - Zack Estes   "If you know where you're going, or if you know what your responsibilities are, then it's a lot easier to determine what it is you should be spending your time on." - Zack Estes   We're a passionate bunch. Together, we help your business flourish. Visit: https://ptexgroup.com   Let's Talk Business! Check out my new podcast on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-business/id1469289551   Connect with Ptex Group: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn   LEAVE A REVIEW + and SHARE this episode with someone who wants to achieve in business. Listen to previous episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!

O Engenheiro Rodolfo Liria é formado em Engenharia Mecânica e pós graduado em Project Management (University of Essex), volta depois de um pouco mais de um ano para contar como esta a sua evolução de carreira Atualmente o Rodolfo, está atuando como NPI Manufacturing Engineer, após ter passado por oportunidades como: Process Engineer - Textron (Ipswich) Powertrain manufacturing engineer - Ford Motors. Fique ligado nesse bate papo, em todas propostas e oportunidades que estão aparecendo na Inglaterra e também em como foi para ele, tomar essas decisões de mudança, durante um período curto, mas onde ele tinha como foco o aprimoramento profissional e pessoal dele. Siga nosso PODCAST e ouça nossas lives do YouTube aqui instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eu.engineer YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/EUengineer https://euengineer.com.br/contato Beatriz Gilli - EU.engineer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/euengineer/message

Engenheiro de Produção trabalhando na Irlanda? Nós temos! Esta semana vamos bater um papo com o Eng. Wellington Quirino, que atualmente mora em Cork, Irlanda, e trabalha como Manufacturing Engineer na Gilead Sciences. Wellington, está trabalhando com gerenciamento de projetos e melhoria contínua com base nos conceitos Lean Six Sigma para otimizar os processos de embalagem de medicamentos. bate papo realizado em setembro/2021 Estamos trazendo o nosso conteúdo com os profissionais das diversas engenharias agora para o PodCast Siga nosso PODCAST que em breve todas as lives do YouTube também estarão disponíveis aqui. instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eu.engineer YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/EUengineer https://euengineer.com.br/contato Beatriz Gilli - EU.engineer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/euengineer/message

When it comes to burnout, we hear a lot of simple, easy, quick solutions, but the reality is NONE of those things. It takes time and it takes failing to actually improve your life and relationship with overworking. TO help us move to a better relationship with work, here is Lee Ann Bonnell. Lee Ann Bonnell is on a mission to deliver breakthroughs to Engineers, Supply Chain Professionals, Doctors, Nurses, and technical professionals, providing results orientated coaching and accountability for men and women. Over twenty years ago, Lee Ann started her career as a Manufacturing Engineer at General Motors (GM). She worked in the assembly plants, pounding the pavement, and working for the "daily miracle" of getting the vehicles to start and out the door. Lee Ann Bonnell Coaching is founded on Life Coaching principles to help professionals analyze why they live in constant chaos and frustration in all areas of their lives. Professionals, like Lee Ann, who slowly felt the tug of their shoulders coming to their ears and had a constant stress pain between their shoulders. In the past 2 years, Lee Ann has helped 100s of technical professionals move into desirability and deservability for their lives through her Grit & Grace Program. Her research in the areas of confidence, limiting beliefs, and time are second to none. The bottom line breakthroughs are freeing and using self-mastery to grow and develop as human beings. Lee Ann is an expert in her fields, including Engineering, with a master's in Quality, Business Administration, and a Master Coach. She has endless energy and strategic solutions to break through limits. She designed Grit & Grace to be flexible and customizable as each client participates. Lee Ann offers a free 30-minute direction session to work with her exclusively. Schedule here: http://meetwithleeann.me to exit chaos and frustration and master the life YOU desire.   Lee Ann Free Discovery Call: http://meetwithleeann.me Website: www.leeannbonnell.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeannbonnell YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfnl7bWoZ6MkVP8K1nPh_w Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/leeannbonnellcoaching   Stefan IG: https://www.instagram.com/stefan.zavalin/ Email: stefan.zavalin@ltmmtl.com Website: www.stefanzavalin.com Book:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PM74BPD   

Dave Cranstoun came to Triangle as a CO-OP in the summer of 2015 and was hired full time in the spring of 2017. Hi is now a Manufacturing Engineer. Nicholas Magro first came to Triangle as a college CO-OP in the summer of 2017. He was hired full time in 2019 and is now a Quality Engineer. They share a unique perspective having had this CO-OP opportunity in their careers. This advantage has become their compass as they navigate their roles as mentors to the CO-OP class of 2022. They have been collaborating for months to make sure they provide extraordinary learning experiences for these future Engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscribe to the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-triangle-podcast/id1551511521 Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trianglemfgnj/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trianglemanufacturing

Jacob and I talk about what it's like to go over 100 mph (160 kph) on two skies, how he trains, what he eats and how he maintains his discipline to train as a speed skier while working a full time job. About Jacob Perkins Jacob Perkins recently placed in the 2022 FIS World Cup. He is sponsored by ski manufacturer Atomic and ski wax and tuning manufacturer Swix. He relies heavily on his background in manufacturing and engineering for innovation in the sport of speed skiing where not only the athlete, but equipment can be a deciding factor of winning and losing.  By day Jacob is a Manufacturing Engineer for Amatrol Inc. Amatrol Inc is a global leader in technical education and training for industry, community colleges, and technical colleges. Jacob played Division 1 tennis for Wright State University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUe) and competed on ITF and UTR Pro Tennis circuit. He is an active member in the community and helps with Habitat for Humanity, Optimist Club, IUS tennis, 1SI, Y1SI, and Metro Manufacturing Alliance. EDGE's Weekly NewsletterJoin over 17,000 others and sign up to receive bonus content. It's free sign up here >>> EPISODE LINKS: Jacob Perkins PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: EDGE on Apple Podcasts Spotify: EDGE on Spotify  RSS Feed: EDGE's RSS Feed Website: EDGE Podcast SUPPORT & CONNECT EDGE's Weekly NewsletterJoin over 17,000 others and sign up to receive bonus content. It's free sign up here >>> Please Support this Podcast by checking out our Sponsors: Mad River Botanicals 100% certified organic CBD products. The product is controlled from seed to end product by it's owners. Use code: EDGE22 to get 10% off all your orders. Shop here>>> *We respect your privacy and hate spam. We will not sell your information to others. Jacob received his Masters in Industrial Systems Engineering from Wright State University and his Undergrad in Mechanical Engineering from Wright State University.  He is a certified ISO 9001 internal auditor and Purdue MEP Six Sigma Black Belt.

Listen in as we delve into contemporary manufacturing workforce challenges and discuss solutions with recognized industry expert Jeannine Kunz. Jeannine has recently been appointed to the newly created Chief Workforce Development Officer position at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers or SME. Her role includes leadership responsibility for Tooling U-SME, the learning, and development arm of SME. Jeannine is at the forefront of workforce management issues, providing forward-thinking learning and development solutions for companies, academia, and individuals.

 Mike Wroblewski, President of Dantotsu Consulting and Shingo Award winning co-author of “Creating a Kaizen Culture”, has over 30 years of manufacturing management experience, strong technical skills and a passion for teaching Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma.    During his career, Mike has held various management and leadership positions including Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Manufacturing Manager, Manager of Quality and Continuous Improvement, Director of Operations and Lean Sensei. Mike's journey into Lean manufacturing began in the 1985 while working for the Hill-Rom Company. Under the watchful eye of Shigeo Shingo, Mike successfully improved a die changeover from 45 minutes to less then 5 minutes. Mike learned first hand from the master, Shigeo Shingo, the techniques of the SMED system along with the early teachings of eliminating waste from manufacturing operations.   Mike has a MS in Manufacturing Management from the GMI Engineering & Management Institute, a BS in Production and Operations Management from Miami University and a Six Sigma Black Belt certification. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3 (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3) CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release date Contact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Join in the conversation as I interview the amazing Kate Arndt to hear her experiences in the tech industry and how she has become an advocate for Women in STEM and representation in the field. Kate Arndt is an Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Sales Executive, devoted to learning, and obsessed with innovation. Her interests, as well as her 10 years of education and experience in engineering and manufacturing, brought her to her current role at Vanti Analytics, the only scalable, SaaS, AI solution for manufacturers. There she is responsible for new business development and major market expansion across the globe for discrete manufacturing applications. She enjoys building collaborative relationships with clients, partners, and subject matter experts, to help manufacturers transform their production through AI. Check out Kate's upcoming virtual round table: https://bit.ly/3t8NYco ✉️ Connect with Kate https://www.linkedin.com/in/katearndt/

Manuela Morales Neira shares her journey through 10 internships and jumping between industries. She shares how important it is to understand your why and opens up about her struggles and learning opportunities as a woman in engineering. We cover it all! About Manuela: Manuela Morales Neira is a Battery Manufacturing Engineer for Rivian. She is a driven and open-minded individual who enjoys using her interdisciplinary background and skills to contribute to the advancement of the exciting world of electric vehicles. Manuela graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2021 with two Bachelor's Degrees (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). While in school, Mamuela completed 10 internships, one co-op, and a 3-semester research experience. She was also heavily involved with different engineering societies such as FES, SWE, and SHPE. During her free time, she enjoys brewing beer, cooking, and practicing yoga!

From Silverstone to simulations, we look at the power of the ‘digital twin' in industry. Whether it's racing simulators with Formula-E, or improving the factories of the future with ABB's ground-breaking Robot Studio; we look at how virtual twins work and how they help improve our industries across the globe. With thanks to: Simona de Silvestro of Porsche Motorsport; Gregor Kumm, Head of Strategy and Portfolio Development in ABB's Robotics and Discrete Automation Division; and Leonardo Amaral, Manufacturing Engineer at Volvo Brasil. Part of the ABB Decoded Series of podcasts, The Robot Podcast is a Fresh Air Production. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, hear from Peter Hartnett, Manufacturing Engineer at Protolabs focusing on injection molding and the last-mile delivery of custom orders. Peter discusses how he extended Protolabs digital thread to the packing and shipping part of the production, the paper-based tracking they replaced, the tools they tried, navigating change, and the effective solutions that stuck.Peter talks about how Tulip has enabled them to gain real-time visibility, better align with processes, and uncover insights to improve operations and reduce scrap. Gio and Peter discuss problem-solving, limiting the distance between the people experiencing the problem and those solving the problem, and the importance of solutions that enable rapid iterations.

In the episode, we hear from Mike Rousch, Manufacturing Engineer at TICO Tractors. As global demand for yard tractors dramatically increased, TICO had a need for controlled processes to maximize production and Mike's ability to build solutions with digital systems enabled him to lead a growing team. As TICO's need for more apps to error-proof frontline workflows and track production, Mike and the Manufacturing Engineering team are building solutions to ensure that quality standards are consistently met for TICO's line of terminal tractors.

In episode 28 of The Gunn Show, Bryan Bannister, OEM Manager at Rego-Fix joins Tony to discuss is love for wrestling, his personal growth from Production Supervisor to Technical Sales Engineer. Bry...

APOLOGIES for the fuzzy audio, don't know what's going on but I'm in the process of changing how I go about recording podcasts so I blame that! It will be better in the next episode, maybe. To submit your question, email ENGRing.success@gmail.com Support the podcast: Top tier supporters - shout out each episode of the month for $10 monthly donation. Monthly supporters - shout out first episode of each month with a $5 donation. One-time supporters - shout out at episode for donations larger than $1. :) Summary: In this short weekly episode, Daniel rambles about his recent work life and the bachelor franchise before getting into weekly questions like: 1. Manufacturing Engineer as a Major change? 2. Those of you that work in MEP consulting, is it all building and construction projects? Or do you get a variety of Mechanical Engineering projects? 3. PDE Course Overview - PDE in Engineering Program? 4. IWTL how to start a podcast? 5. How and where can I move this post, and still maintain enough support? - Asking for free Engineering on Reddit? 6. Idk if I can do this Subscribe on YouTube to watch short excerpts of podcast episodes addressing specific topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj86alc3a7_A_PibgYpkWFg Daniel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Trinity University's B.S. in Engineering Science and currently works in Business Development in the Engineering Consulting and Construction Industry. All views expressed on this podcast are his own and do not reflect the opinions or views of his employer. Music by Maxgotthetracks: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Pclog68AY1ArXm5PiApCX?si=KbqFimdQT6iK3Os2G4Jnkg&utm_source=copy-link --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/engineering-success/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/engineering-success/support

ClearanceJobs recently sat down with Leandria Ates, a principal manufacturing engineer at Northrop Grumman. We chatted about her military transition from the U.S. Army and her role in manufacturing at Northrop Grumman. Leandria has been able to grow in her comfort level with the systems and overall workflow processes at the company. Her experience as a veteran has helped, enabling her to take on different roles and further develop her skills – and Northrop Grumman has been there at every step, supporting her journey from full-time military service to full-time veteran team member.Empowering employees like Leandria to be the first line of defense for problem-solving helps provide a sense of ownership and team camaraderie at Northrop Grumman. The company's employees are the key to providing pioneering solutions that streamlines workflow and builds employee confidence, for veterans and non-veterans alike. As one of the largest global, aerospace, defense and security companies in the world, Northrop Grumman proudly employs veterans as they make the transition to civilian life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan Anderson is the Manager of the Life Cycle Institute, the learning, leadership, and change management practice at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE). Dan joined LCE in 2007 as a Learning & Reliability Solutions Consultant. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Master's degrees in Business Administration from The Citadel. In addition, Dan serves as the Secretary for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) where he provides oversight and direction to the SMRP Foundation and Executive Committee. Dan is experienced in all areas of manufacturing process and plant operations. He has directed and implemented cost savings initiatives and developed process controls in materials management, planning and scheduling, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering along with several other continuous improvement programs. Prior to joining LCE, Dan spent over 20 years working in maintenance as a CMMS Software Implementation Consultant and a Manufacturing Engineer. He is a Prosci© Certified Change Management Professional and understands how effective business process reengineering can be applied with sustainable results. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/practical-reliability/support

Ed Hollingsworth, Manufacturing Engineer for Powertrain Engineering at Ford Motor Company talks about how an affinity for drawing and repairing things at home led him to a manufacturing career, what he learned from Japanese senseis, and material flow design and ergonomics for manual workstations.

Diana is a bit different then our normal themed episodes in that her scenes are all tightly related but equally, if not more impressive. Diana is a Mechanical and Manufacturing engineer and is known as the Latina Engineer. - Latinaengineer.com - DweebsGlobal.org - JustMichael.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/second-scene/support

As a company that works with many customers and vendors, how do we involve these various stakeholders in our company culture? We are joined by Jason Cochran, Psychologist, and Co-Founder of Dulead – a virtual director of leadership and development for small business owners. References: [1:30] Greg introduces Jason Sizen, Manufacturing Engineer at Arcamed. [9:15] Caroline introduces Jason Cochran, Psychologist and Co-Founder of Dulead (formally known as iAspire). https://dulead.com/ [14:01] Jason references design thinking approach. [14:57] Jason references Josh Bersin, Author, and expert in talent management. https://bersinacademy.com/?keyword=josh%20bersin&creative=501858483795&gclid=CjwKCAjwu5CDBhB9EiwA0w6sLRmkI39R3EoHccxbpEndCKSkbP-N0UoWD0uvVbdHYvMUUlNhZkTIERoCUtIQAvD_BwE Key Takeaways: By focusing on human-centered design thinking, companies can consider the kind of experiences they want to create for employees to feel connected within an organization. Leaders play a role in engaging people in culture by providing frequent recognition, feedback loops, and making an effort to develop their people.

This week on the Level Up with Coach K Podcast our guest of honor is Emanuel Williams ( @emanwill )! Emanuel is a Manufacturing Manager and Manufacturing Engineer in Southern California! He's a passionate next level thinker on a mission to become a better man of GOD EVERYDAY! He's into working out, investing in stocks and he lives to mentor young adults. He's on a mission to share his story to inspire others! This episode will be premiering on Wednesday 3/3 at 11 AM (CST) on YouTube!Follow @level27coaching and click the “LEVEL UP WITH COACH K POD” link in the bio to checkout the full episode! Or listen on Apple Music, iHeartradio and all other platforms! LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! TURN ON YOUR NOTIFICATIONS SO YOU'LL NEVER MISS A NEW UPLOAD!#LevelUpWithCoachK #BlackPodcaster #L27 #LifeCoaching #StudentAthleteLifeCoach #Level27LifeCoaching #CollegeAndRealLifeAdvice #levelupwithcoachkpodcast

Meet Mikaela, a graduate of Purdue University in Mechatronics. She tells us all about her career switch from working at Nucor, a Steel Manufacturing Mill to becoming an iOS Developer. Mikaela has even designed and has two apps available in the App Store. The host Megan and Mikaela dive into details about what its like to work at a Steel Mill. Learn about the term ‘arcing steel' and the embarrassing moment of showing up with an interview in a skirt and having to change into men's clothing for a walk, DURING THE INTERVIEW! Coincidentally, Mikaela's first job is actually at the same place as Megan's first internship. Mikaela has an interesting background that stems from her interest and continuous desire of being curious. She has a degree in Mechatronics from Purdue University that allows her the ability to be agile and switch career paths.  As this podcast was being recorded Mikaela was switching careers. She discusses what the job search is like during COVID and how she created an app to help her search process! Find us on IG: Doin'GirlyThingsFind the show notes: Click here Find Mikaela! @mikaelacaron  https://mikaelacaron.com/Job tracking App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/job-application-tracker/id1515625276Gibbs Crew Trivia App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gibbs-crew-trivia/id1497442790 Best Self Cards Life Lessons: What decision are you grateful that you didn't make?Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/doingirlythingspodcast)

This episode is the forth of the Melanated Professionals series where I will sit down with 9 Melanated Professionals, find out what they do, how they got there and how other Melanated women can do the same. Stanlene is next in line and she was a Manufacturing Engineer & in Customer Engineering. Please tune in as Stanlene explains the ins and outs of a great engineer and all the green you can make if you kill it in this field at Boeing :) https://melanatedscenes.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melanatedscenes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melanatedscenes/support

Michael Lovell is a scholar, researcher, educator and leader, and is the first lay president in the history of Marquette University, who began the position in 2014. President Lovell holds three academic degrees in mechanical engineering, including a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and holds both U.S. and world patents. For Dr. Lovell, however, success has not come easy, and in this episode he speaks of his own past traumas and how trauma affects the mind and body in many ways. He created Scaling Wellness in Milwaukee to heal trauma and promote resilience in the community through collaboration with local partnerships. Dr. Lovell suggests adapting positive behaviors helps us grow from trauma, noting “Through mindfulness, and prayer and meditation, when you fall into an experience before that would have triggered you, you can actually have a different reaction.”