Any news on this transition to HCMO ?
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They had a meeting a month ago saying they the gear line transition to HCMO won't be complete until at least summer 2023. Many machines have already been taken out of the 103 building and sent to Mexico, but I heard a rumor that those machines haven't even been hooked up and made operational there yet. Also, all of the military parts cannot be manufactured in Mexico, and Honeywell has been unable to find reliable US vendors to completely take over the manufacturing. So ultimately, they may be forced to keep a small cell in place to make gears for military applications.
When upper management tries to calculate the "savings" by offshoring this highly technical work, do they accurately account for ALL OF THE REWORK as well as the schedule slip re-inspecting and fixing the errors? What about the buy American requirement for all the military work?
Half of the machines were gone a year ago.
Oh, so they're trying this again because it worked so well the last time they tried it?
I talked to a guy sitting outside of the 103 about it, and he said it's going to Chihuahua in 2023, and that most of them were going to other jobs within Honeywell. It was idle chat, so...