Tip & Tools

ASK YOURSELF:

IS IT TIME TO OUTSOURCE YOUR MANUFACTURING/ENGINEERING NEEDS?

If you answer YES to even five of the ten questions below, it’s time to face the fact that you may be cutting your profits in half by not outsourcing your engineering needs.

Is maintaining your internal capabilities challenged, and limited only to the ability to find and retain personnel with expertise on process, engineering and technology?
YES / NO

Have your internal resources become limited in that they do not get broad exposure to valuable lessons already learned by other companies/industries?
YES / NO

Is maintaining cross shift 24/7 coverage in multi shift environments cost prohibitive, resulting in lower end-shift production?
YES / NO

Are your top internal people spending all of their time just keeping the plant running instead of looking for ways to make you more productive and competitive?
YES / NO

Have capital projects for the implementation of technology become the majority of your business rather than an operational enabler that supports your business?
YES / NO

Are your business dynamics continually in flux so that you need the benefit of multiple independent skill sets at different times?
YES / NO

Does your plant operations group spend more time collecting and compiling operational data than they do finding ways to improve the operational elements that drive production, quality and profitability?
YES / NO

Does your operations and/or engineering group assure you that your plant is operating at the maximum effectiveness possible... but you actually know that there is always room for improvement?
YES / NO

Are you are still trying to figure out what your business gain was from the last systems you put in two years after the project was completed?
YES / NO

Is your Plant Manager’s office stuffed to the gills with a constant flow of new paper forms?
YES / NO