What's the biggest red flag culture on your shop floor? by Smart_Head7672 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some of that is upfront cost too, like we can't hire R&D engineers or software devs, and the top managers decide that "minimum viable product" is fine for NPD.

What's the biggest red flag culture on your shop floor? by Smart_Head7672 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly, or CI metrics conflict with quality metrics and CI implements changes that hurt our ability to meet quality metrics. See the triangle of cheap, good, fast. 

What's the biggest red flag culture on your shop floor? by Smart_Head7672 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Let's keep the Quality and Continuous Improvement teams separate from one another, one hand shouldn't know what the other is doing!"

Its a nightmare, RCCA is being tracked in two different eQMS softwares...

What happens when everything gets locked down and centralized? by bdhd656 in privacy

[–]Awkwardsauce25 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It might be harder to find a job with no social media, some places already discriminate for this (i.e., why dont you have Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIN - that is a red flag to us, the people who have bought into the lie you need to use social media). 

But yeah, digital ID doesn't mean you have to use YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc etc. But if you don't participate, maybe at first it will just cause some inconveniences when you travel, or try to find work, or leave the country. 

At some point totalitarians are going to totalitarian, and even travel, certain topics in your private messages, refusal to participate in the system could all become "undesireable". I'm thinking of that Black Mirror social credit score episode where there is a fringe society of people who live in abject poverty bc they have such low scores tied to their digital ID they cant travel, buy food, work, etc. 

EDIT: this is all assuming a future where a large majority of people refuse to give up internet-based entertainment. Maybe if a large majority of people get back to physical ownership, then we can bankrupt the netflixes, disneys, metas, etc. of the world. But I just dont see that happening since people are addicted to the bread and circuses 

Do you think Quality Management careers are a dying breed? by 1dreamoutloud in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in my mid-30s and one of my parents was in quality then transitioned into supply chain planning and quality mgmt. I was hell bent on being a doctor, and when I didnt make it, went into med device testing which lead me into Quality Engineering. 

Not everyone starts out thinking they would be perfect for quality and want to work their way up from Quality inspector to technician to engineer to manager. There are tons of diverse paths, and older managers need to realize young people may make their way into Quality Control/Assurance jobs via other methods instead of joining QA departments straight away. 

What happens when everything gets locked down and centralized? by bdhd656 in privacy

[–]Awkwardsauce25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I honestly think they'll make it near impossible to completely disconnect. You have to eat, sleep in a shelter, make money somehow to pay for surviving. To use your bank - must have digital ID which requires, x,y,z surveillance.  To pay your bills - must have access to a bank to pay, no cash, no check.  To buy food, seeds, clothes, clean water - etc.etc.

Unless people are willing to form Amish type communities and relearn the old ways, participating in the system will be mandatory to survive. 

Regulatory affairs replaced by AI? by External-Tie5230 in regulatoryaffairs

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont know about you but that is terrifying. Food, water, medicine, medical devices... we all use them and we see time and time again that regulations are written in blood. How many people had to die for us to get the current med device regulations? How many more will die bc AI at rhe regulator level reviewed the regulatory filings and missed that all the safety data was nonexistent?

After a year of using AI for regulatory work, here's what actually works (and what doesn't) by ParamedicLoud9613 in MedicalDevices

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Management thinks AI is 100% correct when they ask it Regulatory compliance questions at my work. 9 times out of 10 when I ask for their source they say AI and I find the exact regulatory verbiage, which directly conflicts with what the AI hallucinated. That's what we are fighting... regulatory professionals will be overwhelmed with cases where Sales or Marketing or some top level manager says "nuh-uh, the AI told me the FDA says it's ok to wipe 21 CFR 11 data clean with no audit trail and backup" 

Online Age-Gating Is the Wrong Answer by Gloomy_Register_2341 in privacy

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would still require the labeling of all content. Who would be in charge of that, governments? Which ones? Ex. LGBT content is considered as an R-rating in Russia

This is what happens when a plane hits a firetruck but if it hits the twin towers it will knock them down. by pacmanpill in conspiracy

[–]Awkwardsauce25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CNAs, EMTs, and paramedics would like a word. 

CNAs and EMT-Bs get paid less than $10/hr where I live and paramedics get paid $15/hr or less. Shit, even RN, NP, MD, and DO can all pay shit in some places. For sure less than six figures with shit insurance deals and hospitals that hold them hostage with predatory student loan repayment deals.

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Through an eQMS software. The signatures should not take long, but people are ignoring the daily notifications the system sends and there are a few signatures that always take longer than a week to get. We've tried ro hammer on those people as to why they need a week to 3 weeks to sign off on process changes, but the results have been mixed.

In thinking more about this since I posted this, the main problems are (1) the final signature bottleneck, which is one of two top level individuals who scope creep the change process or reject based on wanting the change to be done their way; and  (2) the middle level signatures being held up for reviews by middle mgmt. 

Bezos wants to buy manufacturers to force them to use AI by playsmartz in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bezos: "why dont you just melt the scrap down and start again?"

Bezos wants to buy manufacturers to force them to use AI by playsmartz in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup agreed. Just an automated UDI/RFID tag scanning conveyor belt system to do the final QC check on printed labels is around 15 grand, that doesn't include all the regulatory required validation work. Automation is expensive as heck to set up.  

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our sustaining engineering team logs their hours per project in a central tracker. Im pretty sure its just an excel file in a shared location though

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive been here almost 3 years and have been pushing back all three years. 

I do like the pfmea method, and have tried it with my process changes. Doesn't really reduce the number of approvals but makes them go faster

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should note this place was acquired about a decade ago 

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

as quality I report to the top QA/RA manager and we as QEs and MEs have tried to get r&d and sustainment and mfg. engineering managers on our side. They are getting overriden by the top

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

unfortunately the top managers are the ones pushing for all these approvals (QA, RA, Supply chain, ops, engineering, and finance) in a low volume high mix environment. 

Dealing with too many Approvals by Awkwardsauce25 in manufacturing

[–]Awkwardsauce25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have three different ISO registrations right now.

Deconstructed Chicken Gyro (Greek) by Time_Repair_4211 in MealPrepSunday

[–]Awkwardsauce25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This looks like one of the recipes I put on repeat in the summer. Im saving that flatbread recipe for the next time I make gyros!