Great engineering managers are always looking for ways to become really great engineering managers. On one hand, a manager has to keep the skills they learned on the way up... read more →
Product managers, design engineers, procurement officers, supply chain planners and other participants in designing new products and taking them to production face complex tradeoff decisions almost on a daily basis.... read more →
Great teams are creative and collaborative. You don’t need an engineering blog to tell you that. In fact, if you’re like me, your social media sites are full of management... read more →
Technology waits for no one. Now more than ever, the accelerating pace of technological change is both an opportunity and a curse. Technology is the engine that drives product improvements,... read more →
Here’s an all-to-familiar scenario. You update a model and send it to manufacturing — only to learn that the floor doesn’t build the old version according to the approved drawings.... read more →
We frequently hear that design reuse is important. You don’t have to be an engineer to understand the benefits of reusing designs and inventory parts instead of designing them from... read more →
As a manager, you are at a point in your career where you have experienced success and can share your learnings with others. This is the first step to becoming... read more →
Ask the Internet about the job outlook for people in ME, and two things become clear. First, we are alarmingly short of mechanical engineers in this country. Second, mechanical engineers... read more →
So that last article was rather frightening for some, you know, with the zombies and the whole thing with engineering drawings not being alive and all that. For some, it... read more →
