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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story takes place about 4 years ago. I was flying down to a customers plant in Georgia to go over some existing equipment to quote a retrofit. We had recently shipped another line to this facility, and recently got it signed off. When my plane landed at around 9pm the night before I was scheduled to be in the plant, I saw several voicemail’s and missed calls. My phone began ringing within 5 minutes of turning it back on. The call was from the 2nd shift supervisor telling me the line we had shipped was down; they couldn’t get the last station to cycle. They were told I was flying in that night, so they were begging for me to stop in right away and see if I could get the line back up. Since the plant was all of 5 minutes from the hotel, and the meeting the next day wasn’t until around 9am, I figured why not. A show of good faith and extra support before going in for a bid on something else is always beneficial. I got my rental car and made it to the plant around 10:30pm. I had a badge to the facility, so I let myself in and walked over to the line, while sending a text message to the shift supervisor. When I got to the line, I saw the red stacklight on the last station (10 manual stations on the line). I walked over to the HMI as the maintenance guys were arriving back to the cell. Right on the bottom was the flashing red and yellow alarm banner : “LIGHT SCREEN FAULTED”. Well of course it wont run if the light screen is broken! Lets see what we have. I took a look at the light screens and found that the plant’s Quality Manager had posted a quality alert with a casting issue, taped right to the light screen guard, with the paper over a large section of the light screen. I pulled the paper off, stuck it to the side of the machine, and said “Try it now and it’ll run.” as I walked away towards the door. Turns out plant personnel are not allowed to touch quality bulletins, so nobody even thought about it.<\/p>\n
Long story short, you can save everyone alot of trouble if you just read your HMI’s alarms, the alarm history is a great resource as well!<\/p>\n
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