The DoD wants to do the right thing. Secretary Gates wants to save $20B per year over the next five years and he’s tasked Dr. Ash Carter to get it done. In Carter’s September 14th memo titled: “Better Buying Power: Guidance for Obtaining Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending”......
Engineers make magic. We are the only ones who create things from nothing: cars, televisions, bridges, buildings, machine tools, molecules, software… (You get the idea.) Politicians can’t do it, lawyers can’t do it, MBAs can’t do it. Only engineers. And the stuff we create is the foundation of sustainable economies.......
The chase for low cost labor is still alive and well. And it’s still a mistake. Low cost labor is fleeting. Open a plant in a low cost country and capitalism takes immediate hold. Workers see others getting rich off their hard work and demand to be compensated. It’s an......
We all have computer models – economic models, buying models, voting models, thermal, stress, and vibration. A strange thing happens when our models reside in the computer: their output becomes gospel, unchallengeable. And to set the hook, computerized output is bolstered by slick graphics, auto-generated graphs, and pretty colors. Model......
Manufacturing creates value to pay for schools. A Manufacturing creates value to pay for healthcare. A Manufacturing creates value to build and maintain infrastructure. A Manufacturing creates value to pay mortgages. A Manufacturing creates jobs.
......Doing new is hard and starting new is particularly hard. Once fear is overcome and new is started, doing new becomes a battle with discouragement. Not managed, discouragement can stop new. Slumped shoulders and a head hung low are the signs and a mismatch with expectations is the source. Expectations......
Change the culture. Easy to say, tough to do. What does it mean, anyway? Culture is a result of something – behavior. I’ll go further – culture is behavior, behavior themes, but behavior still. Behavior is a result of behavior. Want to change someone’s behavior? Wrong question. You can’t. You......
Inspiring work is art. Inspiring work is rare. Inspiring work is scary. Inspiring work is thrilling. Inspiring work is the reward. Inspiring work is life changing. Inspiring work is easy to recognize. Inspiring work is difficult to recognize. Inspiring work is an acknowledgment of self. Inspiring work’s magnitude is proportional......
A recent article written by Leslie Gordon of Machine Design. You have probably seen it yourself: images of Chinese workers toiling in mud-floored factories, each feeding a separate punch press, as if part and parcel of a living, progressive die. The lure of this cheap labor has sent many U.S.......
Shipulski On Design
Copyright © 2013 Mike Shipulski. All Rights Reserved.
The Shipulski On Design
