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Old 02-21-2014, 02:09 PM
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Thinking back, when I left high school in the 70's the job to have was at the Ford assembly plant in St. Louis. Paying $10 per hour, it was a high paying job....

I didn't get one, but still, I lived well enough on the $4.00 an hour job I had.
The same seventies when I could fill up my bug on empty for under $3.00?



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Old 02-21-2014, 02:11 PM
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Yea. If wages had only increased ten fold like prices did...
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Old 03-06-2014, 06:54 PM
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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.
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:19 PM
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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.

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Old 03-07-2014, 05:45 AM
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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.



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Old 03-07-2014, 07:43 AM
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Dave that system does sound awesome, and detecting issues before they break? Amazing.

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