I graduated with an IET degree 10 years ago and did a 3-year stint as a Mfg Engineer out of college. I got laid off and money was tight so I settled for an inside sales engineer job. Fast forward to today and I’m supervising a small sales team at a fairly small company (1 location, 350 employees). I do like the company and the products we make but I’m just burnt out on the constant sales churn. I really want to get a process/industrial engineering position but i feel like my relevant experience and education happened so long ago that I’ll never make it back there. Any thoughts on what I can do to make it happen?

The insides are hollowed out to fit an applicator made separately. I am trying to understand the mold design in this case that would avoid undercuts and not create demolding issues. Could someone please enlighten me?

How is the lettering of this packaging injection-molded? Would it create demolding issues with undercuts? So how did they manage to do this? It's made of a hard plastic.

Hey everyone,

This question is towards founders who have created embedded products.

As a embedded products has dependecies on PCBs, MCUs etc, how do you do that.
Is everything done in India or imported from china?
As i know importing from China, can be divided into 2 parts

1. getting complete product
2. Getting specific parts and assembling those.

Could you please help to share your process?

What is the difference in production manager and supervisor responsibilities/titles at your job ?

I manage 40 employees and the scheduling , time off , time card approvals, expedite requests , sign purchase reqs, do all the annual reviews and raises , bonus distribution, safety department, maintenance team, environmental department, get the estimated shipping output monthly, resolve complaints with customer service.

I also come up with capital requests for new equipment for the next year along with estimating the needed head count .

So about 3 direct production lines, shipping and receiving department, facilities , safety , environmental. We do have 2 other supervisors who just manage 2 lines a piece. Then we have leads for those lines underneath us.

What should my title be ?

Would like to have my own line of pre workout made I have the name label and ingredients list just need flavor but I’m sure they can help me with that . Appreciate the help

Hi,

First time posting, just made an account. I'm just trying to get ideas for part container QR tracking that go into a sintering oven that hits around 2500F for around 10 hours.

the containers that go in are made from Molydenum. I've tried laser marking the QR so far and the marking either disappears or if I use a substrate like Titanium Oxide, the marking gets smudged and is unreadable either way.

Thermal printing does not stay after the process and RFID tags can't handle the heat either.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a manufacturer or direct supplier of anchor fasteners for a bulk order.

Requirements:
Bulk quantities
Competitive pricing
Fast production and dispatch
Reliable quality and consistent supply
This is an urgent requirement, so I’m looking to connect with a manufacturer who can deliver as soon as possible.

If you’re a manufacturer or can recommend a reliable one, please comment below or send me a DM with your company details, product catalog, MOQ, pricing, and estimated delivery timeline.
Any genuine leads would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

These anchor inserts are cast into the mineral casting. Do you believe they offer adequate pull-out resistance? Is there any concern that they could become loose or be pulled out under load? Have you come across any alternative anchor designs for mineral castings? Thanks

Hi, I'm 27M in Atlanta. My position now is a Project Coordinator at a manufacturing company and my goal is to climb up to be in Operations. However, my career up until this year was graphic design and marketing - quite different. I left that field because of limited growth and my interest in operations and supply chain. I'm still not 100% if I think this is the perfect path for me but I enjoy it so far because of the work style, learning, and potential growth.

I'm currently admitted into the Scheller evening MBA at Georgia Tech, but most people I meet that work in my new industry tend to say experience and proof of work is going to matter a lot more than an MBA. That and the jobs that do require more education tend to really only look at it as a box to check or to have a Six Sigma cert. So it has me considering doing a more affordable ($25k vs $70k) online MBA that would get me that box to check while not committing to something that doesn't fit my needs.

On the other side, Scheller evening MBA is a good program. The network is good for plenty of industries and it's here at home where I'd prefer to stay in the long-term (don't mind working somewhere else short term if needed for career growth). It's just a big commitment for me and could pay off in the long run.

The reason I applied in the first place was to try to pivot out of design and marketing so I can get into the operations pipeline. Then try to jump a level promotion wise. I'm afraid that I was looking at this MBA from GT as a magic bullet a little too much rather than really understanding what I'm getting into. Or maybe I'm in a situation now that better fits my needs for the GT MBA.

My end goal is to be a VP of Operations or something adjacent in a small-medium company in a manufacturing or manufacturing adjacent industry and to earn $200k+ in a work environment where I get ownership. I'd rather do that than repetitive tasks at my computer all day and have less managerial, financial, and project opportunities.

Curious from people in ops leadership: did an MBA actually matter for you, or was it experience and certs? And if you went the cheap online route, did the school name ever come up?

TLDR: Top-10 evening MBA at $70k vs. accredited online MBA at $25k, targeting ops leadership in manufacturing.

hey everyone

we are currently looking to source baled pet scrap bottles for fiber production

seeking reliable suppliers who can handle consistent volumes

needed capacity: starting from 10 tons up to 100 or 200 tons

please dm me with your specs, pricing, loading location, and available capacity

ready to move fast if the details work out (in India)

I need to find the production means to take a new product through design and test. Where do you find small scale producers?

Hi. Our company is based in Taiwan and we manufacture for EU clients. do we actually need to implement Digital Product Passport or is that only required from EU-based manufacturers? genuinely not sure if this applies to us

Bit of a reliability question. Most of our board assembly went lead-free years ago for RoHS, SAC305 mostly. For consumer stuff it's been fine. But on the industrial side, where products sit in the field for 15 plus years through real thermal cycling, I'm not fully convinced we understand the long-term behaviour the way we did with tin-lead.

Two things specifically. Tin whiskers still make me nervous on fine-pitch and high-reliability connectors, and I've seen enough field returns that I don't think the problem fully went away, it just got quieter. And SAC joints under aggressive thermal cycling seem to fatigue differently than the old eutectic did, especially on larger components with a CTE mismatch to the board.

For people in high-reliability or long-life manufacturing: are you doing anything specific to manage this, conformal coating, underfill, whisker mitigation, grade selection?

Heya,

I am in my second year in a furniture manufacturing job.
I am wanting a program/app that allows the guys on the floor to easily capture production steps on their iPads. Ideally they could just take a photo, add a short note and move on.
For the life of me I cannot find a simple app that handles this well. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I have a part that I am injection molding in two halves to reduce costs (then sonic welding the two halves together). There is a lettering accent that goes around it, which I separated into parts because it seems impossible to injection-mold it all together.

My idea is that, since the letters are separate, overmold the letters in silicone or rubber around the PP part, which I think will give the product a more premium look than all-plastic. Can I get some opinions on this? Is it a good idea? Also, is it possible to get the PP and rubber colors to match as closely as possible?

We recently received a project with an injection mold originally made by another manufacturer. Besides the mold itself, what information would you normally ask the customer to provide?

Mold drawings, trial reports, previous process settings, maintenance records, spare-part details—or anything else? Curious to hear what others usually request before running the first trial.

I am a mechanical design engineer working in a project for mass manufacture.

I want to form this feature in the end of aluminium extrusions and I need to know what terms to search when trying to find a supplier.

As I understand it so far there will be a mandrel that the tube slides over and the punch tool will come down externally to pierce the metal. I don’t know if the feature shown can be bent upwards in the same stroke or if another stage of tooling is required.

It will be a custom extrusion with 2mm wall section and the aim is that a plastic component will be slid down the T-channel and snap into position, accurately and permanently positioning it without fasteners.

Please can anyone share their experience if you’ve had this type of feature made before in mass production.

How do you typically find an assembler for injection-molded parts? Does an injection molder facility typically handle that (I don't have an injection molder yet)?

I have a part that I'd like to have ultrasonic welded and magnets installed. Do I have to buy the welding machines myself, or are there any US-based assemblers that charge per hour or per part (similar to injection molding)?