I keep hearing MDT is investing more in R&D than ever, but I don't know any OU R&D groups that aren't cutting projects due to lack of funding. ?? What's going on?
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Post ID: @1vzj+1oAO03RA I think people have forgotten large sums of penalties MDT paid in early 2011~ era resulting in d-mb-a-s never ending Quality Training. I guess this will will come back again once R&D’s are moved to places where short-cut is the Norm.
Which locations/functions for robotics are moving to MEIC? At least the rumors
layoff is coming . at least heard it in robotics. they are moving works to MEIC
So Medtronic’s plan for innovation is to outsource R&D to India? JFC…
No surprise here, India and China have those huge R&D facilities, might as well use them. IMHO
Because they snipped out the other parts....
While total spend in R&D will go down as we continue to transfer our spend to lower cost geographies. Medtronic is making big increases in R&D in these particular geographies at by shifting from high cost locations like the US.
Needless to say this strategy fails miserably as you see and extreme uptick in quality issues.
a lot of quality and remediation spend gets called "R&D". Pipelines are starving everywhere.
MEIC - India has started posting openings for R&D positions. So wheels are in motion. Soon, another RIF coming in R&D groups across OUs.
They still allocate release product engineering, sustaining and some of quality to R&D. Are those growing?
Thats all on paper, plan is to eventually outsource R&D with minimal in house support.
Makes sense if you ask me, we have only come up with 3 new projects in CVG over the last 10 years