• Question: do you design object or do you make them

    Asked by heidi to Chris, Holly, Lyd, Mark, Michael on 8 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Mark Dougherty

      Mark Dougherty answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      I don’ really do ether… I design processes. For example if a chef wants to make a new kind of beans I have to design the process so we can make them fast enough, tasty enough and safe enough.

      This includes things like finding out what pumps we need to pump sauces around the factory, what temperature to cook everything at so that all the bugs get killed and no one gets ill and what kind of machines we need to put beans in cans so they don’t end up all over the floor!

    • Photo: Holly Miller

      Holly Miller answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      It sounds like I do a very similar role to Mark but for car parts!
      We have a department called Product Development. This department designs the parts then I will design the process to fit all the parts together. I have to look at how the parts go together, what kind of tools we will need and what order the parts need to be fitted in.
      I have a lot of meetings with the engineers in Product Development to make sure the parts they are designing will work in the real world.

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      I learnt how to design objects at university, but now i dont really do either!

    • Photo: Lydia James

      Lydia James answered on 20 Nov 2015:

      I could do more design work for making fixtures for placing metal castings but I’m mostly involved in writing the programmes to process parts through the factory. My job role is based around re-designing or improving the machines and materials used to make the designed part for the product engineers.

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