Northrop
- Vendor quality management.
Manufacturing Engineer
- Works on high-mix, low volume manufacturing, circuit boards for defense/space projects in Virginia. - Individual components will cost between $100,000-$500,000. - Does a mix of design/sustain, qualified 20-30 new designs in the last year with 80-150 steps per design. - Example task he would do is configuring a soldering machine. - Most painful area is debugging issues, but would not go into a specific example of debugging due to confidentiality. - Followed up with an additional issue over text, mentioning that a system to track incoming parts and connecting them to vendors to track quality would be useful. Incoming part traceability is poor which gives them little insight into vendor performance.