I’m building a highly customized, web-based inspection data and quality management system at a medical device/aerospace manufacturer that is essentially replacing a lot of old VB code, with some additional stuff.
Having previously worked at a marketing company and a startup, it’s been fascinating to experience a legacy manufacturing company growing (or trying to grow) into the future.
Yes, the engineering problems are fun and all, but I think the most fascinating part has been thinking about what American manufacturing will look like 5, 10, 20 years down the road.
In my experiences, I believe American manufacturers will NEED to invest in industry 4.0 tech in order to mitigate costs associated with rising wages, shortages of skilled machinist labor, and greater demand from consumers/regulators/OEMs for information and transparency.
I’ve also been quite amazed at how much paper is still used and the lack of industrial software products with quality UX.
And I don’t think American manufacturing will ever cease to exist.
Having previously worked at a marketing company and a startup, it’s been fascinating to experience a legacy manufacturing company growing (or trying to grow) into the future.
Yes, the engineering problems are fun and all, but I think the most fascinating part has been thinking about what American manufacturing will look like 5, 10, 20 years down the road.
In my experiences, I believe American manufacturers will NEED to invest in industry 4.0 tech in order to mitigate costs associated with rising wages, shortages of skilled machinist labor, and greater demand from consumers/regulators/OEMs for information and transparency.
I’ve also been quite amazed at how much paper is still used and the lack of industrial software products with quality UX.
And I don’t think American manufacturing will ever cease to exist.