Engineering Yourself Out

Trend lines lead to you doing the same as everyone else...
Buck the trend, think for yourself.
I once reported a single failure in a meeting, the marketing director asked if this was a trend.<slaps furry head with paw>
Del

Someone has to design and buile these systems. These systems do not replace engineers but replace manual labor.

Ron

All it does is shift the demand for engineers from the OEM to the supplier.

When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, the trend was to keep project engineers on staff, but no designers and equipment development engineers. The project engineer managed outside contractors, but that meant the contractors now needed the engineering expertise working for them.

In other words, we engineers are not working ourselves out of jobs, but the potential employers we can work for has shifted. Engineering talent will become more and more in demand, not less. We are needed!