Monday, August 20, 2012

My thoughts on Process Engineering

My 3 (crazy) years of process engineering has taught me gazillions. I'll admit though that not everything always translates into action, though because as the cliche goes, everything is always "easier said than done". However what I am always reminded of, is the fact that with process engineering, you dont always need to have the most techical mind, nor have the most brilliant of ideas. What you need to master is how to "follow through" and "sustain".

I really believe that we only need a handful of tightly implemented controls for a product line to smoothly run.

Countless 8d's and corrective actions have been presented and discussed and sometimes its impossible to keep track of them all. The idea is to just separate them into big umbrellas and create a unified plan of action to integrate everything into a single thread.

Now if only it was that simple :-/

Sometimes you cant help but stand aside like a robot and get carried away by the flow of things. I look around and people from other industries feel the same way- clerks, engineers, secretaries, operators, accountants.... everyone. All running around in a rat race. Where everything just goes round and you find yourself going nowhere.

The thing with process engineering though is the mantra of "continuous improvement". Like life, there is no perfect process, no such thing as zero rooms for improvement, and so you are pushed to look inside and generate a list of things that ought to be done. There are also no excuses.

And I think it applies to all of us. There's no such thing as a stagnant life, and a boring world. Its always all in the mind. Its always all about what you do about it.

Like updating your resume for example. Heehee.


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