Say Thanks to a Manufacturing Engineer Today!

Here are two great sites I’d like to call your attention to. Manufacturing is Cool is a fabulous site maintained by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Not only is it a great site with a lot of interesting information for us non-kids, but it is an interesting site for children as well. Please share it with a child….that is after you get done with it! Let them know that manufacturing is alive and well and is a good career. Everything gets manufactured….from burgers to basketballs to balloons. Celebrate manufacturing!

And I’d like to add my appreciation for manufacturing engineers, those hands-on folks in manufacturing companies that make things work. They are the troubleshooters and facilitators between design and manufacturing. They are the most practical, knowledgeable, and down to earth people I’ve ever worked with and solved supplier problems by the bushel.

Manufacturing engineers are like the neighbor who comes by with the knowhow and special tools that help you fix a leaky pipe, a flat tire, or broken lamp. They are the 911 of manufacturing and are often underappreciated and underpaid. I couldn’t have done my job without them.