Pros
The direct employees are extremely competent, easy to work with and many are very loyal. They have a wealth of subject matter experts in Utah, Cookeville, Essen and Linkoping that will be retiring soon with nor heirs apparent. They let you keep your frequent flyer miles and do not take them for wives to use on annual executive team building trips.
Cons
Dallas executives do not understand that the culture of pitting manufacturing sites against each other is not conducive to global team building. Top down Management decisions with that ignore input from experts. No open door policy. As a whole, the Executives who profess the philosophy of outsourcing engineering and manufacturing as a lower cost to India is akin to the Hans Christian Anderson story of The Emperor's New Clothes. Unless you worked at Masoneilan, there exists no upward mobility. Valtek, Durco, Sereg, NAF, and Kammer former employees will never make senior executives for Flowserve