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    actaeon277

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    They used to clean insulators waay back one also. I know for a fact when Gary Neale was CEO of Nisource he said "when it breaks, we'll fix it" when lack of maintenance was brought up in a meeting.
    Cause they're no consequence.
    If they had to pay for their mistakes, maybe something would get done.
    But it's cheaper to 'let it fail'.
     

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    We had the same thing at work for awhile.

    Decades ago, they paid good money for a study, that told them it was cheaper overall to do preventative maintenance, as scheduled.
    And the company pushed it.
    And it worked.

    Then those managers left, over the years.
    And the new guys come in, and they 'knew better'.
    Next thing you know, instead of replacing 3 motors that were at the estimated 'end of life', the pencil pushers said we were wasting money because they still had life on them.
    Then the motors died, one at a time.
    So, instead of shutting down the line once, and changing them as scheduled, we shut the line down 3 separate times.
    Each time you shut the line down, you lose production. Enough you could have bought thousands of those motors. And we did it 3 times.
    Then, they complain because of those shutdowns, we don't have the money to do more maintenance...
    So we shut down MORE.
    A fifty cent part, terminates the cast while we're pouring automotive safety cage steel. Approx one million dollars per hour. 2 hours to restart the cast.
    Gee, that was smart, not getting us that part.
     
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