The latest regarding VW..........

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

I have Mexican friends who claim the working conditions (not pay) in Mexican plants are better than they are in most of the plants here in Az.

My new supervisor is a Swede. He says he can't believe how top heavy and poorly run our plant is.

He's pushing for a revamp of the maintenance system that I think will be great, but he's facing a lot of resistance from both above and below. Management doesn't want to spend any money and goofy mechanics don't want to learn new tricks.

He got them to buy us all I-pads with a maintenance system loaded in them, so that all breakdowns, material issues, planned maintenance, etc. can be tracked and analyzed to pin down recurring problems, far more efficiently than with the old paper system that was pretty much ignored.

He also wants us all to learn vibrational and heat analysis to detect equipment failures before they cause downtime.

I think it's awesome. But, we'll see how it goes. The internal politics and the resistance to change in that place are ridiculous.

Dave