Do you feel mislabeled or miscategorized?

[[Ja...]]

Are you guys categorized as part of the quality, machining or engineering team? For me, sadly, it's quality. I say "sadly" because our quality leadership has more or less no idea what I do, or how I do it - nor can they interpret the information I present. It's maddening, because I essentially report to the engineering team in every way, but officially. The engineers provide the prints, the CADs, they discuss the results with me, they include me in their projects, they call upon the CMM for verification of the machining centers, etc. The "quality" team is worried about welds and welds only - dimensional quality is lost on them. The real kick to the groin is this inevitably places the CMM under the quality budget. So, when I need a sensor, adaptor plate, extension, stylus parts, etc, I'm met with "wow, these are expensive" and "are they necessary?" Management nearly flipped when our big MMZ-B needed laser mapping last year ($30k.) Life would be so much easier here, if I reported to engineering or machining. Oh well, maybe someday.

Edited January 14

[[Jo...]]

Hi Jake,

i can feel your frustration, but in the end it is all just categories and names.

I am also placed in quality and glad about it.

At my working place oftentimes engineering can`t follow my train of thoughts and the head of quality is one of the most constructive and knowledgeable guys here.

[[Ri...]]

I quit worrying about labels a long time ago.

I learned a label can't impede my performance.

[[Ja...]]

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I'm not so much concerned about how I'm labeled these days as I am who I report to. Having a boss who has next to no idea what I do, or how I do it, or even the importance of it, is disheartening. I'm fine keeping my title, I just wish this job rolled up under another department, lol

[[Ün...]]

I'm experiencing similar problems, but I've stopped worrying about it.
I work as a quality control and project quality manager.

I sometimes report to the quality manager, but since she lacks technical knowledge, she's only interested in whether the results are satisfactory. We often discuss report details and technical information with the production and project teams. CMMs work for the quality department, but they actually serve the production and project departments. We work with the project team on new products. I adjust the CMM programs according to the production workflow. The quality manager doesn't deal with these things; she only checks whether the work is finished.

Everything purchased for quality is very expensive because it doesn't generate profit. Bosses don't like spending money on the quality department.

We have many machines for production that cost £500,000. When a new CNC is needed, it's ordered without hesitation. But when you want a new CMM due to capacity limitations, it's too expensive for them.

[[No...]]

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Same here (almost). In fact, quality is the top priority in my company, it's rated even higher than delivery reliability. But there were countless times over the years when I tried to explain quality or measurement related concepts to our engineers and had a hard time with it.