Please help me diagnose this 273
Yeah but that doesn't explain why the decks were crooked as hell. Alcohol maybe? lol
Casting variation, the machine operator not making the proper adjustments on the line, or sometimes they didn't want to shut down the line and make the adjustment and loose production...
If they were running tight on parts and could not afford to shut the line down to make the adjustments, the managers that ran the line... No matter what us engineers said, we were overridden by the managers who had to report to the plant manager and he had to report to the executives in the headquarters why their production numbers were low...
If we couldn't make enough engines and shut down an assembly plant, somebody's *** was on the hot seat...
However we usually tried to build ahead and have a bank of engines as a buffer... But even then, downtime on the lines is looked down upon... Every line has it's production volume that they are expected to meet every day...
All production numbers were reported to the execs in the headquarters every day and they had to justify why they didn't meet their daily targets...