... And we su-k.
Bad launches and quality issues continue to be to order of the day.
Credit $326 million profit
Pro $3 billion
Blue $900 million.
Model e -$1.26 million
Blue and Model e worse than a year ago.
If you aren't in Pro you're not going to like next week (or whenever the next cut happens).
What ever happened to continuous improvement???
Benchmark Toyota and honda its whats on the menu there.
@1qmo+1sdPRw2t got burned myself on a couple of cheap circuit boards (not to mention wiring harness/connectors to different circuit boards). cheap quality, expensive to replace. i used to be all buy american, but american MBAs and corporate priorities have really made a hash of things... again. maybe quality is job 1, but then they TVM all the quality back out again after job 1 so they can get their bonus. would be funny if it wasn't true.
@1gmv, sadly this is true. I’ve seen so many bogus quality improvements made by incompetent leaders. They get away with it because quality often takes years to see the results from, and by then, the leader is gone and us people who stick around and stuck dealing with it. But say you can save $.05 per vehicle and you get a TA rating and stock options. Even if what you did was negatively impact quality, I’d love to whack the guys upside the head who buys our cheap circuit board even though we have proof there will be performance issues and likely recalls.
You will get penalized if you work on improving quality/reliability/durability. These items cannot be measured properly in the existing development systems or processes. For the current state, working on these items is equivalent to work on something with no measurable return, i.e., waste.
You will be promoted if you claim to work on cost/weight. This is easy to measure, regardless the numbers are real or faked.
somehow they think fancy processes and process tools can replace fundamental engineering skill.
And experience.
@1rca+1sdPRw2t yes plenty of people reporting on quality, nobody fixing. somehow they think fancy processes and process tools can replace fundamental engineering skill.
Most managers are more interested in protecting their own rear end than doing the right thing. The lack of quality culture is no surprise. Quality is only given lip service and is not a priority. Quality culture needs to be top down, not bottom up.
No one feels comfortable raising quality issues due to the negative reactions from management. The executive team can thank their own callous disregard for employee wellbeing for the Ford CYA culture.
Just remember, numbers can be manipulated to tell or back any story line.
Can someone please explain how Ford Pro gets to claim Super Duty sales when that org had barely a thing to do with developing that vehicle? TBH Ted Cannis should be shown the door after his epic failures contrived by Team Edison. But yet they protect that guy by rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic with a bunch of new management chains who do nothing. Tyrannical leadership at its best…
Part of the reason we are swimming in a sea of debt is we do not engineer our components for quality, instead we are stuck engineering our internal processes.
Atlas/JIRA micromanagement does not improve quality, but rather allow management to ignore the root cause of poor quality.
Management should get out of their bubble and engage with engineering staff to better understand why our quality is terrible.
$132K lost for every EV sold.
Must be nice to get paid the way the executives do while the company they run loses $1.3k per EV sold. Ford lacks leadership and vision. It's that simple.
OP Model-E lost $1.32B .
Remember when Ford didn't want to be a fleet company?
None of the profit makers are anything Farley has contributed to or been a part of. The same guy who criticized and fired the non-EV folks in the company is making a living off legacy gas products.
Same story folks. Lights wouldn't be on w/o F150, SD, Transit.
It’s all good news, Farley is leading this company in the right direction.
Pointing and laughing at you!!!
Only losing $130,000 per EV we get rid of…….I mean sell.
Bottom line:
We are now a fleet company.