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Downturns and the Design Engineer

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A question for design engineers - During an industry downturn, are you most likely to redesign existing product(s) or design a new product?

How does your job change during a slowdown? All comments welcome.

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    its very much a double edged sword at the moment. i work in the machine tool industry(well at least whats left of it in the uk) and for us its a case of nothing more at the moment than survival.

    we feel that if we could make the new year then we will be in a fantastic position to capitalise on others demise....however.....we'd really like to develop new products. now that would fine if we didnt now have 33% of the engineers due to redundancies. All our time and energy seems to be swallowed up in plugging other skills gaps throughout the business, again due to cut backs, rather than doing what we are good at.

    we've no shortage of ideas either, just no money to develop them.

     

    as to what the future holds well, who knows.

    it was interesting to read that consultants are doing well, i wonder if thats only as a result of companies shedding engineers then finding that they really needed them? but maybe thats a question for another post.

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    its very much a double edged sword at the moment. i work in the machine tool industry(well at least whats left of it in the uk) and for us its a case of nothing more at the moment than survival.

    we feel that if we could make the new year then we will be in a fantastic position to capitalise on others demise....however.....we'd really like to develop new products. now that would fine if we didnt now have 33% of the engineers due to redundancies. All our time and energy seems to be swallowed up in plugging other skills gaps throughout the business, again due to cut backs, rather than doing what we are good at.

    we've no shortage of ideas either, just no money to develop them.

     

    as to what the future holds well, who knows.

    it was interesting to read that consultants are doing well, i wonder if thats only as a result of companies shedding engineers then finding that they really needed them? but maybe thats a question for another post.

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