i worked for a publicly traded company. building materials. i programmed and operated a 5 axis CNC router. i produced door stiles and rails. the way i was taught, producing stiles and rails for a 1 lite door, 2 stiles, 2 rails, took over 22 minutes. this was the cycle time… from the time the router picks up the tool, runs its routine, drops off the tool was over 22 minutes. i was able to eliminate unneeded operations and set the start point of next operation closer to end point of last operation. i got the cycle time down to 7 minutes for the same door. management's response?…”that's good”. no increase in pay. no questions about what i did, how i did it, or “what else do you see that we can improve on?” after that, i did just enough to not get bitched at.