Im at a bank who's always done everything in-house. It makes sense to hand it off. There's giant companies that will do everything and have applications that all 'talk'. I was a consultant for years I've done the mfg side. (Maybe Ill go learn PLC programming and all that Allen Bradley stuff.) Ive done MSP consulting before for just about every industry. fun fun. I left MSP world because it was a lazy cash grab. Its not just the knowledge going out the door, its the work ethic too. Young people are very different. They either want to be the janitor or the CEO. They made it very uncool to go after a middle class lifestyle in the last 10 years. I don't think we ramp up and be a world power again. We forgot how to build things that build things.

MFG was a strange beast. Funny story. I once worked at a 'green factory' that suppose to have no waste. There were no or very few garbage cans. The place was a dump because you weren't allowed to throw anything away. People would hide garbage anywhere they could. You would look behind something and there would be wrapper and packaging. It was insane and hysterical. But they were 'green'.