While the Greenpoint tour showed students a low-stress, relaxed, and collaborate team environment in a small luxury airplane interiors factory, and Boeing gave them a clear understanding of the LEAN procedures, organization, structure, and discipline necessary for mass manufacturing under strict timelines; on Wednesday, October 9th, Umbra showed them a rapidly growing, mid-size company that is also expanding their reach into other motion technologies for the alternative energy industry. It also provided the students with a look at how Italian companies operate, including more intense focus on staff morale and personal growth, design aesthetic, meticulously clean facilities, personal grooming and appearance, and the mission to innovate and expand while also mastering modes of production for existing products. HR Director Jennifer Mazur also taught the students about intellectual property and the importance of in-house design to own the rights to these products so that companies like Boeing have to keep coming back for more parts (like innovative actuators using multiple manufactured tools) rather than giving up a design that Boeing can then go produce themselves. Students gained an understanding of how competition works in the industry to make sure that smaller companies are not swallowed up by industry giants. It was an unexpected but incredibly valuable lesson for the day.
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