There is very limited work coming in at IGS. There will soon be too many engineers in the project engineering teams and not much work. Anyone has any info on next rounds?
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@fjz
The scuttlebutt is that St. Louis is on pace for record low number of palletizers this year. Same thing for our robots. Sad to see a world class product being decimated by Honeywell. I guarantee you all that you have eaten, drank, or used something that was palletized by an Alvey palletizer. Alvey was started in 1911 and has lead the way in material handing innovation over all those years. And still may be if Honeywell doesn't ki-l us.
Does anyone know what's going on with the Palletizer/Robotics facility in St. Louis these days?
Also as to IGS, corporate is making it very hard to spend any money on parts needed in the field. Used to be an engineer could make a decision to send something to the field. Now it takes senior level management approval and of course that take several days. Meanwhile, folks wait and wait to get vital components. Our customers see this. Looks like IGS is being ki-led off. Honeywell may not even try to sell it.
Thanks go to JW for the destruction he has wrought. Why is he still working for Honeywell? Oh yeah, he's protected.
Totally agree with you. SPS will be divested by either being sold or spun off to it's own business. I doubt they have enough business to be spun off as it's own business but they may give it a shot.
I could understand if it was one business unit but it is the same story across the whole of SPS. It is either just obscene incompetence or SPS is being prepared for dismantlement.
London manufacturing is closing next year and not taking new projects, West Chester essentially idled doing inventory/cleanup, Danville - minimal output, little to no communication. Hard to sell what you can't make, yet anyway
IGS has been bled almost to death. There is not one area left functions as it should due to attrition and outsourcing which has had a very negative impact on the customer's. Fortunately a solution has been implemented, the remaining domestic workers must perform better!
There is a lot of fixing to be done on existing portfolio, but nobody from leadership cares about it. They only want to sell stuff, but not to solve any design issues, production issues or similar things, that are beating IGS back like boomerang on every order.