Introduction to Manufacturing – Part 2
The High-Performance Manufacturing book has a section highlighting a few manufacturing companies. The first is Intel’s Fab 22 in Chandler AZ. Although that highlight is 20 years old, Intel is still active in Chandler. In Intel breaks ground on two new semiconductor factories | City of Chandler (chandleraz.gov), we learn that there will be 6 fabs at the Ocotillo campus.
Featured next is Harley Davidson. I have never really paid attention to these bikes or how they are made so this was quite interesting (especially the in-house road tests)!
Another company highlighted is Union Carbide, which I had never heard of before. It features a production technician at a plant making Butanol in St. Charles LA. This area definitely fell into the unknown unknowns for me.
The course links to this video about some biofuel research focused on butanol. Doesn’t seem particularly interesting to me but to each their own.
Last company is American Licorice Company plant in Alsip, IL. The Our Story page mentions that they’re now in Indiana. Yet another product whose origins I never before stopped to ponder.
There is also a link to Mike Rowe’s talk on learning from dirty jobs. I’m only now realizing how big of an advocate of vocational jobs Mike is but then again, I didn’t really watch much of his show so it’s not surprising I’m late to the party.
Finally, there is a discussion about safety practices and personal protective equipment (PPE).
I wasn’t sure what to expect from such a course, but it has certainly been educational given that I now see Doritos and my first thought is how was this made and packaged and what does the supply chain look like?
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