Planning for a scheduled Electrical Outage

[Tony S]

My thought is this, if an unplanned outage doesn't hurt the equipment then what's the difference between that and a planned outage. Yes years ago it would take a long time to restart some of this equipment, but now days not so much.

I found a fault on a furnace inductor. Lost revenue £35M and most of the workforce layed off for a week. I wasn’t the most popular person in the world.

 

[iceworm]

Problem is we are doing it at night --Saturday night--and everyone wants to be home. And I'm writing the procedure and they will be cursing me --but that's life. If everyone likes you, you are doing something wrong

That is certainly a different problem than the one you started with.

So, let's see, from post 1, you are scheduling a shutdown the perform a task that will improve reliability, or perhaps fix a regulatory issue. And the people that have to come in for the shutdown are upset at you personally - for making their jobs more secure. Cause that is what you ae doing. If the plant does not stay running, they don't get a pay check.

Or, if the issue is the boss is not paying overtime or comp time - shame on her, not you.

In either case, that has to be some dim bulbs. You really should consider hanging around a better class of dumpsters.

Shutdowns happen through all industries. Why this one is turning into cursing baffles me.

Tell the boss to pony up a thousand bucks. You're buying pizzas an soda.

 

[iceworm]

I found a fault on a furnace inductor. Lost revenue £35M and most of the workforce layed off for a week. I wasn’t the most popular person in the world.

These incidents are another case of the company needs to hire a better class of inmates.

So you find the fault and the management says, "Eh, we ain't fixing it. Keep running" What happens?
So you don't find the fault and the plant keeps running. What happens?
Same thing right?

And the crew is upset why?

Stupidity is permanent and discouraging.
Ignorance can be fixed. The fixing is encouraging