More GM recalls

BenK wrote:
Too common in American and now spreading to foreign corporations who
has adopted the 'business school' metrics of management...AKA bottom line management

I've been banned from the factory floor (computers selling in the millions each)
and removed from a Ford Design building...just a few among many others

Even though those computers were from my design product team, they were
right...I no longer had a say in Ops. As after releasing and Ops signing
off on the design doc's...they owned the production of it. Sure if there
were any 'engineering' issues, I'd be the one they called

Everyone is at fault and truly mean that

From the bean counter management to 'us' in the public who reward
exec's with tens to hundreds of MILLIONs for failure. This is Wall
Street and their stock prices

Not just automotive, but any product that has a large scale production
line. Think even tiny production too, but they don't get the publicity


Early career was in process controls, factory automation, etc and saw
this kind of bean counter management first hand while out on the job
sites

'Blame Game' is huge and no one accountable but the 'little guy'
AKA the goat


At that Ford design center I got tossed out of...my guys invented a
new CPU for a super computer and the sales folks asked us to allow
them to run a Beta out there.

While my crew was installing and tuning I was allowed to investigate
the facility...until I spoke out one too many times 'why' ?

Found some designers changing harness wiring size. The computer would
not allow, as the canned CAD spec said no...so the manager told the
software folks to change the spec. Knew right then and there that
Ford's and any other OEM was going to have electrical issues

Ditto when another young engineer was changing the noble metal flashed
onto switch contact's. Their CAD system spec said no, so another manager
likewise told them to change the spec

Opened my fat mouth asking about tolerance stack up and when one of
those managers heard...asked me to be escorted out of the building...

Did those managers care? Nope, their bonuses were based on 'cost reduction'
without any engineering evaluation and did find that they were not
engineers, but business school grads...

"The squeaky wheel gets the oil...BS! The squeaky wheel is the first one to get replaced!" - George Carlin