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Avoiding Landmine Repairs, Part 7
2013-07-09 17:44:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
How should a field technician close out a repair? read more
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Avoiding Landmine Repairs, Part 6
2013-06-25 17:48:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
On the skeleton crew third shift, a critical piece of equipment breaks down read more
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Avoiding Landmine Repairs, Part 5
2013-06-07 20:40:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
A really bad way to find a missing torque wrench is to energize the equipment and wait for the arc blast. Tool counts help prevent such outcomes, but what if you can't find a missing tool? If you conclude your initial count was wrong but the tool is sitting across Phase A and Phase B bus rails, a disaster will follow. read more
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Avoiding Landmine Repairs, Part 4
2013-05-28 19:31:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
In Part 3, we presented an example of a temporary repair involving an HVAC unit that became permanent. This kind of situation arises too often. In most cases, its solution is really a matter of timing. Get approval of the purchase order for the correct replacement first, while the decision-makers still have a crisis mentality about the problem. Then get the approval for the temporary fix. But note that purchase orders can be cancelled. To prevent this: read more
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Avoiding Landmine Repairs, Part 3
2013-05-13 18:33:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
If the correct replacement part has a long lead time, a safe but suboptimal substitution can get production running. Production managers, understandably nervous about excess downtime, agree to the temporary solution. But temporary becomes permanent with attendant maintenance problems. read more
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