Companies
Honeywell
Date
August 24, 2023
Industry
Aerospace
Problems Identified
- Iterative tuning process for coatings. - Missing deadlines due to poor intra- and cross-site coordination for complex manufacturing.
Role
Process Development Engineer
Summary
Blake worked on a major NPI for ceramics coatings at Honeywell in a team of ~8 PEs. The most painful part of this was the iterative process of tuning coating parameters to meet the tolerance requirements - iterations require re-running parts. Blake also raised issue from his new role in supply chain - though the data is available, complex cross-site manufacturing processes often get inefficiently ordered, resulting in missed deadlines, due to lack of alerting/visibility on production schedules + timing.