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Preface

Chapter 1 : Company Cash Flow Issue Affecting Design Review Pull-in
Chapter 2 : Setting Up Two Automated Assembly Modules in Malaysia
Chapter 3 : Getting a Senior Wafer Fabrication Engineer’s Life Stabilized
Chapter 4 : Material Delays in a Hydraulic Cylinder Manufacturer
Chapter 5 : Specification Clarifications with Customer in Germany
Chapter 6 : A Recalcitrant Engineer on a Project Team
Chapter 7 : Change in Customer’s Program Manager in the Middle of a Project
Chapter 8 : Japanese Customer Visit to Qualify our South Korean Plant for Volume Production
Chapter 9 : Engineering Interface among Wafer Fabrication Shifts
Chapter 10 : Protecting Intellectual Property during Technology Transfer to a Japanese Company
Chapter 11 : Shelf Life of Photoresist in Wafer Fabrication
Chapter 12 : Fire Fighting during Installation of a System on an Offshore Oil Platform
Chapter 13 : TBD and Erroneous Specifications for a Project
Chapter 14 : Dual Customer Project Managers for a Project
Chapter 15 : Customer Placed a Permanent Observer in our Plant and in our Subcontractor’s Plant
Chapter 16 : Subcontractor Announcement of Shutting Down Operations
Chapter 17 : Customer Is Delaying Installation and Training
Chapter 18 : Cost Overrun Due to Steel Price Increase
Chapter 19 : Error in Motor Mount Moment of Inertia Calculations
Chapter 20 : Engineers Sent to Japan to Improve Manufacturing Yields
Chapter 21 : Training in Japanese Language
Chapter 22 : Final Project Evaluation by Customer
Chapter 23 : Project Engineer Left Company under Adverse Conditions
Chapter 24 : Listening to an Engine Assembler
Chapter 25 : A Scheduling Challenge
Chapter 26 : On Site Equipment Training
Chapter 27 : Russian Federation Technical Passport Issue
Chapter 28 : Excessive Meetings
Chapter 29 : First Article Mishap
Chapter 30 : Getting Rid of a Lackadaisical Team Member
Chapter 31 : Pressure Put on a Team Member by Upper Management
Chapter 32 : A Japanese Wedding
Chapter 33 : Re-dimensioning of Design Drawings Engineer Wants To Return To Her Old Job
Chapter 34 : Task Management between Different Times Zones
Chapter 35 : A Deserving Vacation
Chapter 36 : Honeymoon Period
Chapter 37 : Filtering Information
Chapter 38 : Technical Training Needs
Chapter 39 : Actual Cost of Work Performance
Chapter 40 : Holiday Conflict with Technical Proposal Presentation
Chapter 41 : Natural Disaster Insurance
Chapter 42 : Union Strike in France
Chapter 43 : Abysmal Performance at Design Review
Chapter 44 : Dictatorial Micro Management
Chapter 45 : Farewell Luncheon
Chapter 46 : Patent Rights
Chapter 47 : Project Scope Changes
Chapter 48 : Not Invented Here Factor
Chapter 49 : Promises to Team Members
Chapter 50 : Corporate Division Shut Down
Chapter 51 : Airline Travel Fares Increased
Chapter 52 : QA Department Going Over a Major Overhaul
Chapter 53 : Critical Team Member Getting Married and Going on Honeymoon
Chapter 54 : Bartering Minor Scope Changes
Chapter 55 : Re-specifying Bronze Coating Thickness on Wheels
Chapter 56 : Latitude versus Attitude
Chapter 57 : Component Certification
Chapter 58 : Customer’s Final Inspection Report
Chapter 59 : A Practical Solution to Fluid Flow Simulation
Chapter 60 : Traceability of Heat Lot Numbers
Chapter 61 : Project Closure - Lessons Learned Meetings
Chapter 62 : Project Manager Goes on a Sabbatical Leave
Chapter 63 : Technical Publishing during a Project
Chapter 64 : Technical Conference Conflicts with Project’s Progress
Chapter 65 : Keeping up with Software Revisions
Chapter 66 : Protecting Intellectual Property
Chapter 67 : Project Partners
Chapter 68 : Internal Project Direction
Chapter 69 : Dependence on other Departments
Chapter 70 : Upper Management Stability during a Project
Chapter 71 : Help from Legal Department

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