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So I know jack about manufacturing and production lines real world, but spend my spare time studying lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management and all related things to increase Cust Sat, reducing held inventory, and smoothing a order to deliver pipeline.
If you're not all over this kind of thing, this is the area I'd be reading about/into and talking to them about. Lean/Six Sigma/TQM, Flow
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Goldratt's The Goal is a bit of a bible, bits from Six Sigma text that relate to measuring the floor correctly;
Throughput T is defined as the rate at which a system generates money through sales (Goldratt, 1990, p. 19). Another way to think about it is as the marginal contribution of sales to profit. Throughput can be assessed for the entire company over some period of time, or it can be broken out by product line, or even by individual unit of product sold. Mathematically, throughput equates to sales revenue (SR) minus variable cost (VC). T = SR
For daily management decisions, which we’d like to be able to relate to the system’s goal, T, I, and OE are much more useful than the traditional organizational success measures of net profit (NP), return on investment (ROI), and cash flow (CF). Yet there has to be a connection between the two types of financial measures. And here it is: NP = T – OE ROI = (T – OE)/I CF = T – OE ± AI
Pyzdek, Thomas; Keller, Paul (2014-05-29). Six Sigma Handbook, Fourth Edition (ENHANCED EBOOK) (Kindle Locations 3269-3273). McGraw-Hill Education. Kindle Edition.
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Is a great slide deck on optimise manufacturing flow.
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Coming from a military/ aerospace background, tools like six sigma, lean and 5S are drilled into us, along with shit like kaizen and fishbone/ Pareto analysis. Trust me that 99% of it is bullshit in real time, small batch manufacturing, it only works if you make billions of exactly the same thing.
Might buy the second shirt for pleasure wear
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Sounds like you're ready :). I would expect least some causal questions on inventory management (or would be asking some!), so good you've got your answers heavily ready :).
(I've found it very handy in IT for repeatable processes; the batch is always the same size, doing the same thing, Agile releases make a world of difference. As I said, I know jack about manufacturing, however, I would now like a soda water/beer with you even more now!)
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This is why it's important to:
A) Get an interesting, creative job so you don't have to bother with all that lean, six sigma stuff (or have to pretend you're interested) OR
Become senior enough that you can delegate it all to someone else -
As someone who has a manufacturing job, and deals with several production tracking systems on a daily. I'm left wondering what twisted mind would study these for leisure? The knowledge acquired for my day job is far more exciting and we're talking about insurance regulations there. You have to have a peculiar sense of entertainment Snowy. lol
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I disagree with bubbapest, they'll think you're lazy if you ask about workload at an informal chat IMO. I think chris nailed it. I always ask the interviewer questions. Like how long they've been there, for example. If they've been there a while, it speaks well for the business, and I tell them so.
they're asking him in. he holds all the cards. take care of megatron first. he's already got a job. as long as he knows his stuff (seems like he does), and doesn't offend anyone, he's got a supreme upper hand. if work life balance is important and they will work him 100 hours a week, why waste time?
just because its informal doesnt mean its not an interview… what is your work life balance is 100% valid question to ask at any stage.
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Yeah I wouldn't do it. And as a hiring manager I would take a dim view of such a question. But I did like everything else you suggested.
You can sort of triangulate that kind of info by asking more oblique questions about company culture.
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Resurrection…
On Friday of this week I have an "informal" interview for a senior management position in a local engineering company, and I am shitting myself.
I have been with my current employer for 17 years and never really considered leaving, but this new position is with a smaller firm, pays £10'000 a year more than I currently earn, and is literally 2 minutes walk from my front door.
So do I go for it? it has been described to me as an informal chat to see the working environment so how smartly should I dress? How do I not fuck it up?
First interview in 17 years, I'm a little rusty on such things :-\
Good luck Mega.
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This outpouring of stellar advice, well wishes, and shirts of a questionable sexual orientation has been great guys, thank you
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good luck Gav @Megatron1505
I guess he could get this one for cheaper.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NWT-Gitman-Vintage-Boy-Scout-Shirt-Size-XXL-/291349152697?pt=US_CSA_MC_Shirts&hash=item43d5c343b9
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awesome 
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thx [url=http://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3599]@urbanwoodsman such a great laugh, thank you
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Here's a great question to ask:
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Yeah I wouldn't do it. And as a hiring manager I would take a dim view of such a question. But I did like everything else you suggested.
You can sort of triangulate that kind of info by asking more oblique questions about company culture.
agree to disagree, i guess. i graduated from a big ten business school and we were taught to ask this question if you wanted to know what the expectations were. also, i used it while applying for my current position which is a financial software developer at a highly respected financial institution.
