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I think that's part of my problem. How do you compete against someone half your age who has supposedly done everything...
Actually a big part of why I got pushed out of my manager spot. I was not willing to pencil whip reports to make up for all the crap they were not willing to spend money on to fix. So it looked like other sites were somehow getting things done and I wasn't. Yet my facilities were some of the safest, best looking, smoothest operating... Just not perfect on paper. Too many people just don't give a **** and wonder why everything is going to ****. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:
I hear ya...
When I was at the engine factory, the engine line was supposed to change the sockets on the connecting rod tightening stations every week... the maintenance guys would come in on weekends with overtime and fill out the reports that they were changing the sockets every week...
When we were in one Saturday in Feb to test the new tools to run the new aluminum cam bearings (change from babbitt), I stopped at the connecting rod stations and put paint marks on the sockets and extensions on the multiples there...
Those same marks were on the sockets and extensions on the equipment still in July....
I mentioned this to a co worker and when he brought it up in the morning meeting, the maintenance supervisor jumped all over him calling him a liar... I kept quiet because I didn't want to let him know how I can prove it...
Those sockets and extensions were on there for months after that, but the maintenance crew kept signing the paperwork each week saying that they were replaced... You could also pull up the tool room stock to see that they were not using that many sockets and extensions to support their claims...
If they would have cooperated, I could have gotten with the tool engineer and changed the maintenance frequency to every three months, but since they were being a--holes I left it as it was...
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Another time as I'm passing through the lunch room at lunch time I hear a skilled trade guy ask another if he's working overtime this weekend...
The guy replied, "I'm coming in, but I ain't working..."
Then stated that he was an oiler...
I mentioned this to the tool engineer and he said, "No wonder our air motors keep burning out, that a--hols is not filling the oilers like he's supposed to and the motors are running dry....
So the tool engineer and I got with some tooling vendors and tested their electric equipment... we found some very repeatable equipment and retooled the whole engine assembly line with DC elelctric motors and got rid of the air motors and the need for the oiler on that line since he didn't want to do his job....
The new equipment reduced 66% of our torque audit violations.... :thumbsup: