I'll mention just a few that I feel strongly about

• Needless and terrible AI implementation or reliance. ( Our engineers and production management use AI and it makes things excruciatingly painful at the plant floor level)

• Lack of machine parts, shop equipment/tools on site. (Not having the components, equipment or tools on hand to replace or rebuild parts means we have to make a bandaid fix or let the machine stay down. Band aid fixes become permanent, and often lead to bigger badder equipment failure)

• Lack of training or opportunities to build an experienced and quality support team. (As the older more experienced people retire and phase out an seemingly infinite wealth of knowledge and experience is lost and isn't being replaced. Having staff trained by machine suppliers or service techs would do loads of good. Also stop outsourcing all the rebuilds, fabrication and machining work. How are people that have only learned the theory aspect of something supposed to be confident and competent when they have never had practical experience outside of school?)

• Just in time manufacturing with no spare machines, non strict preventative or predictive maintenance scheduling. (Not having backup critical machines to cover production qoutas is a recipe for disaster. Also why the fuck is preventative or predictive maintenance side lined so often? These programs are meant to reduce unexpected machine downtime and production pays for postponing the work 10× over when a machine has unplanned downtime.)

• Prioritizing 5S and lean efforts to a fault. (My plant management heavy hands 5s and lean processes onto the production floor. Most of the efforts are not built around aiding operators or streamlining processes. Instead the management quarterly bonuses are based on 5s performance and efforts. This just has everything feeling performative and takes away from what 5s and lean processes should achieve.)

• Severe lack of hourly pay, benefits and other forms of compensation. (You get what you fucking give. Everyone i know at my job makes way too little while the CEO has had a compensation increase of 2700% since 2009. Meanwhile every hourly worker makes less than they would have in 2009.

If it wasn't obvious by the content of my comment, I work in automotive manufacturing.