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Please send someone to audit our IS department

I do not claim to know everything about IS or manufacturing. Hell there is a lot I do not know. However, I know what can be accomplished with the right people. I would love for someone to come and audit our company's IS department. Then you guys could see the $$$ loss from that department alone. There is no innovation or vision from these guys. We pay $200K for three people to maintain and back up servers. No programming no anything that requires some deep thought. We buy the expensive equipment pay big bucks to outsource programmers or developers so our IS department has, quote from the man himself, "less ownership or responsibility to maintain the programs". It is all "out of the box", "conform to how this works", and "I?m sorry it can?t do that". Now you have to find your own way around to get the data you need to get your job done. Then there is the Lotus notes developer. Nearly $70K to develop and maintain email. However, you know what... he is very skilled in Cold Fusion. Too bad we haven't a single program running CF front ends. The systems I build have not had any downtime in over 1.5 years. Every other system IS maintains, I mean backs up the disks on tape, has crashed the entire network, shutdown production for 20+ hours and ran up our phone bills calling tech support and consultants to get systems back online.

Guys, also be a little more insightful don't point out the obvious "grammar and spelling" mistakes. I will never write a novel or win the Pulitzer. Read the part where it says, "All systems have their strong and weak points". I am just a little jaded b/c of our IS department?s lack of ability to think on their own or take ownership. In our company, through out, you have ownership and high responsibility. Just seems to be a double standard for our Tech department. If the owners had 1/4, the knowledge in IT as they do with every other aspect of our business there would have been sweeping changes a long time ago.

I am one of a couple hundred employees who feel our IS department is at best, forget par, a double-bogey.

Here is a quote from one owner who is third inline for total ownership. "I only call the IS department when my computer is dead". Of the six owners she is the most knowledgeable, when it comes to IT, and that is not saying a lot. She just knows she really cannot depend on our IS department to get a problem resolved in a timely manner. The manager of the department is a great person and all but a bad leader. His passive attitude has been passed on to his subordinates. Now the whole department just seems to be lazy.

Anyhow, IBM is great for certain areas while MS, Oracle and SAP based systems are great for certain areas as well. Just as long as there is justification for the dollars and time spent. The whole email thing is overrated. We do not have very good spam blockers in place so I spend part of my email time sorting through useless junk. Would like to see them take some of that $70K from email boy and spend it towards PLC programming or SQL development. Those are the two main things needed to capture data and automate our machinery. If your a manufacturing or IS I have love for both of you. I have been on both sides of the coin and know just how difficult it can be to deliver the goods. However, I don't care where you work if you are a slacker you just piss me off.

Anyways...good luck all and rrattboy don't forget my invitation

Posted by: relaxman13   Posted on: 08/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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