Not in shipping but in high volume manufacturing it's generally expected that anyone on the shop floor, or creating systems for the shop floor, is exerting at l

Not in shipping but in high volume manufacturing it's generally expected that anyone on the shop floor, or creating systems for the shop floor, is exerting at least some gray matter toward optimization. In most places of decent size, there will be at least one "manufacturing engineer" or "operations lead" whose primary job is to focus on optimization.