Thread regarding Ford layoffs

If you think things are bad now , wait until football season is over and Bill has more time on his hands to continue destroying the Company.

I agree that the leadership team are lying through their teeth. Days of tight adherence to accounting rules are long gone so how do they really know what the real numbers are?

Back in mid 1990's there was a huge emphasis on reliability, Ford had reliability technical specialists to work with engineering teams with software (anyone remember Redcas?) and other tools to prioritize reliability.

Big change in early 2000's. Quality VP did minimal upfront work. Took easy, safe approach of tracking resolution of initial quality issues. VP's organization pointed to silly graph showing INITIAL QUALITY correlated with Reliability. This was really bad as it justified lazy score keeping approach taken by department.

There was a time at Ford before a CNE was promoted to a director they had to launch two programs from start to finish. Now we have clowns who get a bump six months on the job. Sorry you are not seasoned enough. That applies to all ethnical backgrounds and sexes. This company is paying for it. especially in the quality / execution of our products.
Never lower the standards bring that individual up to those standards. Our so-called leadership teams do not meet the criteria of what LEADERSHIP MEANS. Sorry but when you watch them talk about Conway, and new re-orgs and BUZZ WORDS. Thier body language tells me they do not even believe the BS coming out of their mouth. Morale is in the tank. Parents telling their children to stay away from automotive. The company is still a one trick pony as someone posted. That is F-Series. If you look at the Mach E. 65k volume. I wander what the ROI is on that one (20yrs+). New Sheetmetal, new interior. Those items add up in cost. But we are not allowed to ask questions like that. So, assume F-Series ICE is paying for it. Again, one product makes 90+% of your profits. better protect that one. Unlike those old white guys in the 70s-early 90s they knew their customers, and you had more than one vehicle line making money. Put people in positions who know what they are doing. I don't care what color or s-x. but competent know the business.
sorry to vent but it is sad. very sad.

My experience is overall product development and vehicle integration is flawed. Its forgotten in a sea of inclusion and diversity as there are few real leaders. They don't know how to set the proper customer target and make the vehicle work together. Its not the always the individual part quality, but a complete ignorance of the need for an integrated experience with continuous and never ending improvement which is the FUNDAMENTAL objective of Ford's Korean and Japanese competitors. And it shows. They are better in every and any comparison you will find.

Who has windshields coming off their vehicles. Laughing stock of the entire industry. Quality is an afterthought so that vehicles can be assembled with thousands of parts sourced at the lowest price globally. Won't put my family in a Ford.

@qtd+1e5ilG0l

I wonder how equitable and inclusive the blame for all of it will be distributed.

Our quality is extremely disappointing right now. And mark my words, it's only going to get worse.
The guy who posts the recalls on this board is going to be busy.

I support all NA plants. I will say this the Mexico Plants overcome buercracy and the why fix it when we been doing it this way forever attitude to innovate or change the way things are done. Why i suspect part of it is because if they lose their jobs they dont have the welfare state to fall back on like they do in the states. On the flip side USA operations are very set in their ways and are likely to engage in protecting their turf which means if we change i might lose my job is how they think.

@zzv+1e5ilG0l Totally agree. Remember China sourcing?

The biggest problem with Ford is Bill Ford Jr.

@zzv+1e5ilG0l I disagree. At least at Ford, quality is not a requisite. It is all about the "lowest cost" factor, especially if there are short term savings to increase the managers next bonuses.

It is all about the best quality at the reasonably lowest cost, not by whom.

Mexico & China have always been the plan and known secretly under project code names. They have been ramping up facilities and employees for years as well as slowly transferring white collar Purch, STA, Prg Mgt, and PD work for the last few years. There are 'published' plans and there are 'secret' plans. Anyone ever involved in headcount planning that has access to the salary engineering rates Finace carries can tell you the reality is they will do everything possible (regardless of President) to get as much work as possible out of the US. Will be worse because they know the only way to make EV or AVs affordable for some time.