GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Got to say Terry it sure would be nice to run like that. I work in the gage lab and have had some very heated discussions with a few of our management. I have known our plant manager for 15 years and when I send him an e-mail things usually happen. I have been threatened to be walked out by a few stupidvisers. I just look them dead in the eye and tell them I can use a paid vacation, lets do it. But no vacations for me :W .

I get the whole we have to make rate, but at what cost? Every time you have to run a part back through and machine you have lost 2 parts! The part you are handled the second time, then the part that you should be running!

Just shut the machine down and fix it for goodness sake. But oh no that would cause downtime and downtime is bad!, but re-running parts is not bad?

I guess I just don't understand the workings of a modern business model, like these guys and gals with their fancy degrees and such.

Don

Agree. Lose 2 parts at a minimum when you Rework. We marry the ring to the pinion. So when we fail a set, It takes 4 parts to fix the first 2, and that's IF they both pass with the new ring or pin. Usually one doesn't. So they don't say a whole lot when it takes awhile to hit the magic offset. The operators give me more grief than my coach. They are the ones that have to make production.

Thing is. What I do. there is no gage, or M&M machine to tell me what offset to make. The tester gives me an idea. But it is experience, and training that helps to make the correct move, and it don't always happen the first try. Sometimes it take several moves to get where you need to go. Sort of an educated guess, if you will.