I hope Honeywell keeps its US-based manufacturing capability and that it continues to upgrade it. It would be a mistake to cede this capacity to outsourcing like so much of other things that we outsourced. Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization. Japan, Germany and South Korea have avoided this.
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It’s my impression, from the past 20 years, that Honeywell wants to get out of “messy” industries; that is, ones that run a substantial risk of liability from environmental impact, employee death or illness, or that require substantial capital investment over long periods of time. They’d rather support such industries with software. They see software as having a light footprint on the business. And I’ve observed first hand that leadership fundamentally doesn’t understand software development. Nada.
Deeds and actions. Current leadership team does not have the guts to chase big problems that really matter. Instead they are using old ideas to try and move metrics that create fake impressions of value. They want to be a software company not because it solves a problem but because it has a higher profit .. They will chase this cowardly path until some other shiny goal pops up. If you work in manufacturing your are a liability. Hardware designer ? Liability. Software engineer? Lucky you , you are a resource. Resource in the same sense that hertz thinks about its fleet of rental cars... you generate cash and depreciate quickly to the point you must be auctioned off.
Think of hertz every time you hear little d talk about being a software industrial.
Welcome to the new honeywell. The hertz of aerospace software.
It’s not to late. We make circuit cards in MN, FL etc. your ignorance and pessimism is not reality.
You are 15 years too late. The bulk of manufacturing has been off shored or outsourced. The entire operation of manufacturing circuit cards is done overseas. US operations are primarily final assembly then test and repair & overhaul. It would be prohibitively expensive to return these operations that have been moved back to the US. If Honeywell management desired to return to assembly and creation of first stage components in US or it’s territories it be less expensive to buy a company still doing that in the United States. Based on statements from Honeywell‘s CEO this will not happen as they are trying to transform the company to an industrial software company. The” Apple of the industrial world“.