[hef19898]

Fully agree. Even if I am not a full mechanical engineer I am an industrial one by training. And over half of my studies was equivalent to what the mechanical engineers did as well. And somehow that affects how think about the world and stuff, engineering thinking of sorts.

I am im supply chain management now, and compared to others in thay domain that are really good SCMs but not engineers, thinking like an engineer makes things easier sometimes.

I also agree on using the old hands on the shop floor when it comes to manufacturing and machining parts, engineering / design for manufacturing is something a lot of engineers struggle with. Also goes for maintenance and what not. And the good engineers listen carefully to that kind of feed-backband actually search it. This was one something my profs pointed out to us all the time as being an important part of our future jobs. Obviously, some people are better at that then others.