Welcome
Ken Weise Engineering & Business Solutions Leader
Ensuring the highest-level of engineering performance within product development environments.
Ensuring the highest-level of engineering performance within product development environments.
I am a maker. I like to take ambiguity and turn into something concrete. Turn problems into solutions. Build where nothing existed. I thrive in high paced environments that burn others out. My background is diverse, spanning manufacturing and product development, OEM and supplier, Fortune 50 and start-up. The combination allows me to approach issues from many directions.
I drive profitability by ensuring that engineering processes are up to date, non-duplicative, and efficient; by driving designs that manufacturing can produce at the highest possible quality and the lowest possible cost; and continuous attention to customer needs, solutions, and satisfaction.
Product Life Cycle Management ● Global New Product Development ● Budgeting & Forecasting
● Performance & Quality Metrics ● Project Management ● Process Optimization
● Multi-National Collaboration ● Strategic Planning, Tactical Execution ● Engineering Operations
Exceeding internal and external customer expectations by ensuring a precise understanding of product requirements in price, quality, and time of delivery and prompt, methodical handling of new requests.
Ensuring that diverse business units operate within consistent policies, procedures, systems, and processes to maximize performance and reduce errors produced from inconsistency and wasted effort.
Build and facilitate high-performance, cross-functional teams that collaborate as focused units to ensure project alignment with strategic and tactical business objectives delivering results at the lowest marginal cost.
Recognizing the value of all available resources including technology, capital, and individuals, and applying those resources in methods that generate the maximum performance in a positive, proactive business culture.
Making sound judgment calls, applying reasoning, problem solving, and intuitive deduction, and avoiding possible conflicts to achieve the best business result.
Standardize
People performing similar functions should use similar processes and methodology to achieve their goals. A person designing a suspension must go through the same generic steps as someone designing industrial automation. The details behind the steps will be unique, but the overall process will be the same.
Data Based Decisions
"Data will set you free". Decisions should be data based. However, this does not mean that 100% of data must be available. Anybody can make a decision with all the facts. People are employed because they are the experts. They need to be able to act on parts of the data. The 80/20 rule should be used as much as possible.
Panic Early
It does no good to hold your problems close to your chest until it is too late to resolve them. All problems come to the surface eventually. Getting them there early instead of late will allow for better resolutions.
Discipline
Proper engineering disciplines must be followed. Engineers must understand and know how to use FMEA's, DVP's, etc. Core engineering disciplines are not optional. Do what you say, say what you do, and document it.
Know Your Costs
Engineers add upward of 90% of costs to a product. Know what your design costs. Not just the BOM, but also assembly and maintenance.
Planning
Comprehensive workplans, long and short term, are a must. They tie together all the elements that will make or break a program. They also provide the proof that progress is being made. You must always know the effect of failing to meet timing of particular tasks. What is the downstream ripple? Who will be affected?
Take Risks
Progress and innovation requires taking calculated risks. Avoiding risk is avoiding growth.
Speak Up
I want to know what you think. Nothing is off the table.
Speak Confidently
If you sound confident, your point will be taken.
Be Ready to Change
Change is a fact of life. Use it as an opportunity, not a difficulty. Be a change agent. Push aside "we've always done it that way." Continuous improvement cannot happen without change.
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
Engineers don't make money, manufacturing does. Get manufacturing involved early in the design. A great design is one that meets all the customer needs and can be manufactured simply and reliably with known manufacturing techniques. Designs should minimize the number of parts and part numbers.
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