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Manufacturing engineer: Job description and activities

Job description
Typical work activities
Job description
Manufacturing engineering is a creative activity: manufacturing engineers design, implement, monitor and maintain manufacturing processes. They consult with design engineers in order to achieve the most efficient and cost effective way of producing the highest quality product possible.
Employment is found in numerous industries, such as clothing, food and drink, pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. Many organisations operate 'cross-functional' teams with the manufacturing engineer involved at every stage, from design and development, to production, research and after-sales service.
Manufacturing engineers have expertise in a wide range of manufacturing technologies and computer and management control systems. They apply state-of-the art technology to meet increasingly competitive business needs.

Typical work activities
Roles vary according to the setting but the range of activities common to most posts usually includes:
organising, planning, commissioning and maintaining production lines;
improving existing operations, incorporating new methods and processes;
handling equipment purchase and installation;
investigating operational problems affecting production and dealing with them in a systematic, methodical manner;
planning the use of resources and scheduling activities in order to meet an objective;
preparing manufacturing documentation required for product manufacture;
co-ordinating projects;
providing manufacturing data;
running meetings with other team members;
identifying ways to reduce production costs;
managing budgets;
working with engineering and other departments to produce cost estimates for new designs;
liaising with research and development departments;
understanding and analysing graphs and statistics and other complex information;
giving presentations to engineers and colleagues in other departments;
liaising with suppliers and customers;
training and supervising staff;
working with regulatory bodies to ensure safety, environmental and design standards are met;
reading specialist journals and attending training courses and industry meetings in order to keep up to date with the latest technological developments and trends within this and other branches of engineering.



taken from:http://www.prospects.ac.uk/p/types_of_job/manufacturing_engineer_job_description.jsp











Heylo everyone!Assalamualaikum..welcome to nora's inc.dis is my official blog for my technical english subject.When at first my dearest lecturer En. MOHD SHAFEIRUL ZAMAN informed us that we need to set up our own blog,i was so excited.hehe..mainly bcoz i already had my unactive blog that is http://raradunianyata.blogspot.com/. u can come n visit my other blog to view or leave a comment on the things that i mumbled there.hehe. So lets get to the topic, what is manufacturing engineering?fyi, at first after i got my upu answer dat i'm going to do man.eng(short form for manufacturing engineering), i got devastated!!dis is mainly bcoz my first choice was chemical eng. evendo UMP was my 1st choice.hmmph. at first i feel like crying and trying to ask to da admin whether i can change my course to chem.eng. UNFORTUNATELY,i was informed during the orientation week dat we r not allowed to change our courses due to limited places n bla2...so i decided to stay in manufacturing n give it a try. After 2 weeks of class i realize dat manufacturing is not dat bad, in future evendo i will b working with machine, i can build my own helicopter or SPACESHIP!.isn't dat xciting??hoho. Okay so lets get back to da article above,da article gave us a bfief description on what man.eng is,n what does da engineers do.n some typical work activities dat cought my attention is "reading specialist journals and attending training courses and industry meetings in order to keep up to date with the latest technological developments and trends within this and other branches of engineering." Ahaks!me?reading jurnal on latest tehnology??dat is a so NO-NO.

i lurve technology like it gadgets,phones n stuff but hw am i gonna read dat kind of boringggg stuff?if its SEVENTEEN,CLEO or even STATICS mayb i can consider it.hoho.duh?gurls will always b gurls.so enjoy it!hoho.hmmph i dunno what else to ryte so hopefully EN.SHAFEIRUL ZAMAN will enjyoy n satisfied reading my piece of mind as an warm intro.hoho..take care.