Maintenance

[Knobhead]

Obviously a bit different to the one I worked in. Maintenance needed jet propelled roller-skates to get from job to job. The best thing I did when I started there was to ask for a week with the printers learning how the presses worked.

I’ve also worked on 3 axis CNC, I can understand the company getting help from the manufacturers. Both the electrical and mechanical sides are a nightmare.

 

[Knobhead]

Like every print factory ive worked in as well!

Out of interest what sort of presses were you working on?

 

[pennychew]

I was a machine setter but the presses were small format Komoris, large format were Rolands and heidelbergs

 

[joel89]

stick to house bashing, maintenance is no fun... no life, call outs, and how long is it going to be broke down!!?

 

[Jonspark]

stick to house bashing, maintenance is no fun... no life, call outs, and how long is it going to be broke down!!?

House bashing! Are you having a giraffe. Maintenance is the way to go, fault finding, panel building, getting paid loads to change a fuse or reset a overload on a call out, the fun never ends!!!

 

[joel89]

I do maintenance and panel building I'm telling the other guy to stick to installation

 

[7029 dave]

Feet up all day then . lol

 

[Robotstar5]

I'm a maintenance electrician and would feel quite embarrassed if we had to contract jobs out, except large projects obviously. Never heard of a maintenance electrician only changing lamps.

I'm a maint elec too but do very little electrical work, most of the installation work is contracted out so any production losses caused can be blamed/costed to an external company and at an estimated £30k loss per minute downtime I can understand why.

 

[rapparee]

Feet up all day then . lol

Swings and roundabouts. One minute everything is ticking over nicely feet up having the craic with the boys. One phone call later and blind panic descends. A critical machine breaks down and if it is not running within 30 mins the general workers further down the production line will be out of work with nothing to do.

 

[7029 dave]

Understand Rapp, only winding up the maintenance boys.

 

[7029 dave]

Only an cable monkey, well Tony reckons. lol

 

[rapparee]

Understand Rapp, only winding up the maintenance boys.

Yeah i know you were and you're right, i even agreed earlier on in the thread but i was just giving both sides of the coin.

 

[Knobhead]

I was a machine setter but the presses were small format Komoris, large format were Rolands and heidelbergs

We were using 8 colour web offset single pass presses.

I cocked up adjusting the limits on a flying splice, it’s amazing how much web comes out the side of a machine when it’s running at 350m/min. Guess who had to rethread the machine and reregister it.

I’ll be honest, I hated the place and was glad to get out and back to heavy engineering.

stick to house bashing, maintenance is no fun... no life, call outs, and how long is it going to be broke down!!?

You’ve got to be off your trolley. The mind numbing drudgery of the same thing every day as opposed to the variety of dealing with breakdowns.

 

[Jonspark]

I'm a maint elec too but do very little electrical work, most of the installation work is contracted out so any production losses caused can be blamed/costed to an external company and at an estimated £30k loss per minute downtime I can understand why.

30k? We have reactors on a plant that can breakdown during exothermic reaction, money doesn't even enter the equation when that happens and still carry out the fault finding / repairs ourselves!!