Not so, Iamjonscranium. The National Society of Prefessional Engineers (www.nspe.org) specifically says that while years of experience may in some cases be subsitituted for education, advanced degrees CAN NOT be substituted for experience. Some states will waive the FE exam for those with PhD's...
PE's are not necessarily PhD's. None of the PE's I know have a PhD except for those who are also professors. A bachelor's degree, passing the FE exam, being apprenticed with a PE for a few years, and passing the PE exam I think are all that is required. Most IE's are not PE's because we don't...
Update: Customer is satisfied with the cascade of A3's that came from this. A3's are a handy little tool. Mfg is rewriting the die/part inspection process/method, training techs and operators, and are improving conditions for inspections, e.g. better lighting, magnifying mirrors to inspect while...
MikeHalloran is correct in stating that the culture here is oriented toward getting parts out the door. I've been working at this plant for about a year to try and change that culture. I have to deal with a LOT of "we've been doing it this way for 20 years why change now?" Just when I think I'm...
Here's one for you: We have an injection process where we have 600+ part numbers with 1000+ dies running on 50+ presses. We had a die get damaged and we let some bad parts escape to the customer. We have instructions in place for the dies to be inspected for damage/wear at the beginning of every...
All great advice. I would add that you should ask to basically be a production line worker for at least a few days. All our new engineers are put on the various lines where they'll be doing their engineering work for one week (sometimes two) and train as production workers. The more they know...
I do my time/work studies a lot like tomwalz. I check the database for pieces processed over a three month period and divide it by the hours worked at each operation over that same period. Works like a charm. Occasionally the operators complain that the rate is too high so I regularly do...
I am the only continuous improvement/lean/mfg engineer at my facility and pretty new to the job (9 months). I'm wondering if anyone has a preference in simulation software. I used Arena quite a bit in college and have been tinkering with a VERY limited demo version of FlexSim lately. I have been...
