Someone has already noticed this as well - that we no longer make good products. To those responsible it seems to be a completely secondary matter because they are too preoccupied with themselves. It’s devastating indeed.
I don’t know what they hope to achieve without quality products. I guess that should be one of the priorities, but they can’t even remember the last time when it was on top of their priority list.
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Forge s—s, period. After the transition to ATL, it all went to hell. Poor leadership. GTH.
A sure sign a company sells lousy products... your biggest customers tell you repeatedly that you are the worst supplier they have and forbid you from bidding on new contracts... ecoute le message?
A sure sign a company sells lousy products.. they spin off the division.
Ie... residential everything, turbos, nylon, .....
A sure sign a company sells lousy product: It sells $30 billion of the product.
My Honeywell thermostat broke not even 1 year after I bought it retail. I sent it in for warranty and not only did they refuse to fix it, they kept the one I sent in. The reason it was refused: the warranty is only valid if bought and installed by an authorized Honeywell installer. That is all you need to know about this company.
In term of aerospace, they are the incumbent on so many platforms that they always have leverage and ready to go assembly lines. So they can offer more of the same 30 year old technology off the shelf with minimal recertification expense.
To put it another way, if Honeywell aero made home electronics, they would be pushing VCRs and wondering why customers are not satisfied with 640x480 resolution.
But, to end on a good note, the plastic desk fans work really well.
Honeywell makes equivalent products to our Chinese/Indian/Malaysian/Romanian competitors. Same workforce , same quality. Same factory in many cases ( surveillance cameras for instance)
Don't worry I am sure Mexico abd China will be producing the Honeywell quality we have lived to make
It’s very specific to each business, of course. The Sisyphean task some have been asked to accomplish by forcing them to use Forge is going to drag down lots of good initiatives with the weight of the accumulated investment and M&A. Perhaps we should have learned from the mess that played out over at GE?
folks remember the time tested motto from Honeywell.... "you can't pay more, but you can always get better (products) elsewhere..... true then and true now.
What a strange post. Honeywell revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2020 was $33.233 Billion. The majority of the the revenue is for parts that are installed on other company's end use products. If there were quality issues they wouldn't buy them. I would challenge the OP to give examples of "(No) good products". I'm a propulsion engines (which have fantastic reliability) engineer and no I'm not an HR troll.
That's the main reason for its bleak future. You can't sell BS forever. You have to have a good product.