2019 RETA Breeze Sept-Oct

EPIC FAIL

Critical Pieces of Equipment!

This is more of me standing on my soapbox and yelling at the top of my lungs to get my point across. You as a Plant Manager have a critical piece of equipment that, when it goes down, stops the entire operation. (Notice the use of the word “when” and it will go down. Everything breaks eventually). I heard it the best, “Every piece of equipment is a smoke machine if operated wrong enough!” Maybe this should be planned and maybe, just maybe, the plant should keep parts to fix it on the shelf, so you don’t have to rely on the factory to quick ship items to get you back up and running. More and more factories are running on what I call, “Just in Time,”meaning they keep just enough stuff in stock for today’s emergency, maybe. With no guarantees the factory even has what you need to get this process back to full operation. I am not picking on any particular factory, many of the valve manufacturers are doing the same thing. It seems the lead times are getting out there for what I would call “simple items.” Just a couple months ago it was 21 days for some simple 120V coils! The attached photo is just for representation. Thank you for listening to me rant and rave. Maybe should have called this article “ticked off.” If you have photos of an epic fail please pass them on to nh3fail@gmail.com the names have been changed to protect the guilty!

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