(1) Designer.
(2) Technical specialist.
(3) Engineer.
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(4) Salesperson.
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(5) Mechanic/service center.
(6) End user.
All those people above with different specialty and also different point of view based on their expertise.
Katakanlah korang terlibat dengan sektor pembuatan satu produk. Mereka yang dalam group (1), (2), (3) mempunyai pandangan dan kepakaran yang berbeza mengenai produk berbanding group (5) atau (6).
Group (4), biasanya sebagai link kepada dua group besar ni. Segala feedback dari customer, complaint from service center, bla bla bla etc.
Dalam lingkungan yang lagi kecil pun contohnya, di kalangan orang (1), (2) dan (3) pun pendapat kadang-kadang bercanggah.
Tapi lumrah manusia. We normally excel at something, at our own domain. Nak menjadikan (konon-kononnya) perkara menjadi mudah, we often expect people to fall into that domain as much as possible. When people can't, we assumed them either stupid or stubborn. A cognitive shortcut.
I can relate this in life and work. :)
Showing posts with label manufacturing world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manufacturing world. Show all posts
Feb 24, 2010
Feb 13, 2010
Proton Hybrid
Aku pun selalu follow cerita Proton.
Semalam Autocarbe keluarkan satu story pasal Proton hybrid concept car. Daripada info di web itu, projek kereta hybrid ini adalah usaha-sama Proton dan designer kenderaan terkemuka dari Itali iaitu Italdesign. Kenderaan ini bakal diperkenalkan pada Geneva Autoshow March ini dan dijangka dirasmikan oleh Tun Dr Mahathir di Geneva.
Proton Hybrid.
Nampaknya sekali lagi Proton berkerjasama dengan top player automobile. Italdesign ini bukan calang-calang nama dalam dunia automobil. Top designer Italdesign, Giorgetto Giugiaro pernah menang Car Designer of the Century pada 1999. Italdesign pernah bekerjasama dengan Proton semasa projek Persona dulu. Detail untuk development enjin, transmisi dan lain-lain masih lagi tiada info. Aku pasti Proton akan berusaha untuk develop R&D untuk match automotive design yang leleh air liur dari Italdesign ni. Takkan body je cantik tapi tak reliable kan?
Sumber: Autocarbe.com
Semalam Autocarbe keluarkan satu story pasal Proton hybrid concept car. Daripada info di web itu, projek kereta hybrid ini adalah usaha-sama Proton dan designer kenderaan terkemuka dari Itali iaitu Italdesign. Kenderaan ini bakal diperkenalkan pada Geneva Autoshow March ini dan dijangka dirasmikan oleh Tun Dr Mahathir di Geneva.
Proton Hybrid.Nampaknya sekali lagi Proton berkerjasama dengan top player automobile. Italdesign ini bukan calang-calang nama dalam dunia automobil. Top designer Italdesign, Giorgetto Giugiaro pernah menang Car Designer of the Century pada 1999. Italdesign pernah bekerjasama dengan Proton semasa projek Persona dulu. Detail untuk development enjin, transmisi dan lain-lain masih lagi tiada info. Aku pasti Proton akan berusaha untuk develop R&D untuk match automotive design yang leleh air liur dari Italdesign ni. Takkan body je cantik tapi tak reliable kan?
Sumber: Autocarbe.com
Feb 12, 2010
Engineer For Life
Why I have decided to be an engineer for the rest of my career or...reasons why I don't want to be a manager.
(1) I often hear how good people being an engineer and suddenly become a complete suck-ass once they climb the management ladder/become a manager. Some people are not meant to be a manager. Manager require the one basic skill called leadership. But here in our beloved country, Malaysia the only way to get a better/higher salary is to become a manager. So once they obtain the title and position, suddenly people will realized that they are not meant to be a leader (yet).
(2) I want to be be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Some company even offer the position to a non deserving people just because they agreed to be in a hell hole for a certain period. Let alone leadership skills or analytical thinking, I doubt that the actual foundation of technical knowledge was there. When crisis arise, opportunity also arise (to solve problems and improve). But....
(3) I cannot stop to learn. I often see, some management stop to 'learn' once they have the title. Basic example of TPM. Few years back TPM, was known as Total Preventive Maintenance, but at recent years, TPM have developed into Total Productive Maintenance. Still stuck in the 1990's era. Still want to do preventing while others have already predicting.
(4) I love to hands-on the problem, working with teams. It is the fundamental of learning and communication. If you don't have the foundation, please pass the position to somebody else. Some managers think, "the role of manager is to do whatever it takes to stay afloat." Often they think and they give the orders. Isn't the management is all about planning and decision making?
(5) Nobody will send me chain emails, gossips, photos, mp3s etc. Ha ha.
In some country, certain company give an option for engineers, to decide whether they want to climb the management ladder and become a manager, or be an engineer for life. That's why in some cases the engineer's wage can match the manager's.
(1) I often hear how good people being an engineer and suddenly become a complete suck-ass once they climb the management ladder/become a manager. Some people are not meant to be a manager. Manager require the one basic skill called leadership. But here in our beloved country, Malaysia the only way to get a better/higher salary is to become a manager. So once they obtain the title and position, suddenly people will realized that they are not meant to be a leader (yet).
(2) I want to be be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Some company even offer the position to a non deserving people just because they agreed to be in a hell hole for a certain period. Let alone leadership skills or analytical thinking, I doubt that the actual foundation of technical knowledge was there. When crisis arise, opportunity also arise (to solve problems and improve). But....
(3) I cannot stop to learn. I often see, some management stop to 'learn' once they have the title. Basic example of TPM. Few years back TPM, was known as Total Preventive Maintenance, but at recent years, TPM have developed into Total Productive Maintenance. Still stuck in the 1990's era. Still want to do preventing while others have already predicting.
(4) I love to hands-on the problem, working with teams. It is the fundamental of learning and communication. If you don't have the foundation, please pass the position to somebody else. Some managers think, "the role of manager is to do whatever it takes to stay afloat." Often they think and they give the orders. Isn't the management is all about planning and decision making?
(5) Nobody will send me chain emails, gossips, photos, mp3s etc. Ha ha.
In some country, certain company give an option for engineers, to decide whether they want to climb the management ladder and become a manager, or be an engineer for life. That's why in some cases the engineer's wage can match the manager's.
Feb 11, 2010
Isu Toyota Prius
Aku follow cerita pasal Toyota pull back model Prius. Cerita pasal Toyota selalunya interesting (pada aku). Dua isu berkaitan model ini ialah brek dan pedal minyak. Masa launch model ni, terima rave review sebab fuel efficiency (gas+electric hybrid) dan tambahan pulak keluaran Toyota.
Di Amerika dah kecoh pasal isu Prius ini dan delay di pihak Toyota untuk disclose rootcause problem ni semakin buatkan problem jadi aggravated. Sampai sekarang hanya programming glitch yang diberitahu.
Keadaan ekonomi di Amerika juga antara faktor isu ini digembar-gemburkan. Macam mana? Sebabnya selepas eknomi downturn tahun 2008, motor industry di US terjejas teruk dan sekarang level protectionism semakin meningkat untuk boost industri kenderaan tempatan. Tambahan pulak US gov owns 60.8% share in General Motor. See the link?
Update terkini Toyota masih in-progress untuk repair/rework programming glitch pada model-model yang terlibat. The thing about Toyota is, they fell and they stood back, again. Aku selalu follow news yang berkait dengan Toyota sebab ini adalah kompeni pioneer Lean. Cerita yang berkaitan dengan failure, success, challenge and most important point, how to bounce back from failure.
Ada jugak news yang report isu berkait Prius ini disebabkan Toyota push launching date lebih awal daripada yang sepatutnya. Kalau accusation ini benar maka Toyota sudah 'betray' konsep QCD (Quality - Cost - Delivery) menjadi DCQ (Delivery-Cost-Quality).
Sebagai kompeni yang ramai look up to dan terkenal dengan manufacturing philosophy and quality control and manufacturing system and technology, highly efficient production, but they lost it somewhere along the way. Maybe they need to go back to basic, and ponder the quote below.
"When everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." - Andre Gide...Amacam Proton, boleh faham?
Sumber: Yomiuri Japan, The Star
Aku suggest buku ni, sesuai untuk
apa-apa industri dan skop kerja.
Di Amerika dah kecoh pasal isu Prius ini dan delay di pihak Toyota untuk disclose rootcause problem ni semakin buatkan problem jadi aggravated. Sampai sekarang hanya programming glitch yang diberitahu.
Keadaan ekonomi di Amerika juga antara faktor isu ini digembar-gemburkan. Macam mana? Sebabnya selepas eknomi downturn tahun 2008, motor industry di US terjejas teruk dan sekarang level protectionism semakin meningkat untuk boost industri kenderaan tempatan. Tambahan pulak US gov owns 60.8% share in General Motor. See the link?
Update terkini Toyota masih in-progress untuk repair/rework programming glitch pada model-model yang terlibat. The thing about Toyota is, they fell and they stood back, again. Aku selalu follow news yang berkait dengan Toyota sebab ini adalah kompeni pioneer Lean. Cerita yang berkaitan dengan failure, success, challenge and most important point, how to bounce back from failure.
Ada jugak news yang report isu berkait Prius ini disebabkan Toyota push launching date lebih awal daripada yang sepatutnya. Kalau accusation ini benar maka Toyota sudah 'betray' konsep QCD (Quality - Cost - Delivery) menjadi DCQ (Delivery-Cost-Quality).
Sebagai kompeni yang ramai look up to dan terkenal dengan manufacturing philosophy and quality control and manufacturing system and technology, highly efficient production, but they lost it somewhere along the way. Maybe they need to go back to basic, and ponder the quote below.
"When everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." - Andre Gide...Amacam Proton, boleh faham?
Sumber: Yomiuri Japan, The Star
Aku suggest buku ni, sesuai untukapa-apa industri dan skop kerja.
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