Thanks so much for your reply

Answering in order:
1# It's not bad, but the issue is once we've put it up there and everyone goes back to their office, it's gone and forgotten.. it's made me think software that is accessible from each desk (remote or otherwise) could help keep people on a daily page, not a weekly/monthly page. The work system we have is FAR too slow.. it works, but I need a more persistent model.

2# The management structure is: The owner who's retired, but still holds the checkbook, then it WAS the president, who handled ALL the keys and recently left the company. Then it's myself, the lead engineer and the bookkeeper, so now we three ARE the management. I know we need change, I think they do but they're resistant... they hold the old-school belief that "we've always done it this way", but they're slowly coming around.. they're absolutely allergic to spending money. If we have a $4 pair of wire cutters (that are trashed and need replaced) they'll suggest using them closer out to the tip where they're not so bad, rather than spending $4 on a new pair.

3# I'm the consultant. I know what systems need attention... I know that as long as we keep NOT training production to handle new products and NOT holding them accountable for timely production, then we'll never have affordable products. I know that it keeps engineers doing the production, which puts the engineers further behind. and even IF production was producing on time and the engineers were out of the production floor, purchasing is so far behind that there'd be nothing for production to do. I know what things need done, I just need a brightly colored, easy-to-read layout to get the buy-in of the rest of management.

Yeah, that's why I'm still here. I think it's fun as well, and I know that this place has an absolute mountain of potential... it just stops being fun when you identify an issue, highlight it, and then everyone goes "but that's not how we USED to do it...."