Engineering in a utility.

[Shannow]

Just wondering how savvy some of you maintenance gurus are WRT to how it's done in heavy industry.

Just say that you suffered a sudden, and unexpected failure in your home life...Maybe a head gasket failure.

What would you do ?

a) curtail all preventative maintenance on your fleet, including oil changes, until you were back on your maintenance budget ?

b) fix it, pay for it, and get on with business ?

c) run in circles...hands flapping ?

d) explain that it's urgent, let someone else fix it...then complain of the cost and run around, hands flapping about the budget overrun ?

 

[eljefino]

e) pay for it out of a previously set aside, rainy day fund, and continue as normal.

Wait, that wasn't an option?

 

[srivett]

a for me. I broke a CV axle last night so I am going to be putting off my timing belt change until later. Gotta stay on budget if there's any hope of me going on a trip.

Steve

 

[Pablo]

That's why we 'mercans own 3 cars...6 if they are all GM's.....(ducking quickly

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Depends - in my unemployed state....GREAT another thing to kill time!!

At other points in my life....I haven't even had time to get the bloody beast to someone else to fix. So then I would choose:

F) shoot the fuquer with a .45 and buy a new GM...I mean car...

 

[srivett]

Bah, it's a blown gearbox. Dad stuffed it into reverse without using the clutch and he knocked out a couple teeth.

If it was a GM I wouldn't have to pay more than 50 bucks for a transmission and I wouldn't have to walk more than 2 blocks to locate one.

Finding a VW transmission with less than 400,000 km on it will be a chore.

Steve

 

[kenw]

e=b

 

[tom slick]

C is the best answer, you need to add yelling cuss words.
my answer is B. the answer A will have you asking the same question over and over again. PM is the most important task for uptime.

 

[Shannow]

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Originally posted by tom slick:
my answer is B. the answer A will have you asking the same question over and over again. PM is the most important task for uptime.

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will you be my manager ?

 

[moribundman]

Hmm, Shannow is being accosted by hand-flapping underlings who run in circles while screaming off the top of their lungs?

 

[chas3]

repair it and pass the costs on to my customers. i would call this a 'continuing service' fee.

 

[Shannow]

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Originally posted by moribundman:
Hmm, Shannow is being accosted by hand-flapping underlings who run in circles while screaming off the top of their lungs?

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Nope, the underlings ('cept they aren't because we allegedly have a "flat" structure) are all great guys, who work hard, and always seem to be able to pull one out of the hat under pressure.

It's our boss that runs in circles flapping his hands.

 

[moribundman]

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It's our boss that runs in circles flapping his hands.

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BWAHAHAHA!

 

[tom slick]

quote:

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will you be my manager ?

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sure come on over.
The management in my company is very open to my ways of increasing their uptime. they often ask about my plans on improving uptime.

notice i don't use the term "downtime". when you use "uptime" to show how PM is making money for your company it becomes a little less difficult for the managers to open thier purse. you turn the downside of spending money on maintance into a postive idea.

 

[Shannow]

I once was in a meeting where a very senior manager was complaining about how much we spent on condition monitoring, and how he saw very little result from it...it didn't stop things from breaking down.

We need a regime change.