GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/05/recall-alert-2014-chevrolet-silverado-and-gmc-sierra-2015-chevrolet-tahoe.html Fortunately it's not that many.
Forum Discussion
So nice to finally hear from folks inside these OEMs, albeit on the
floor, but never the less, an insiders view/comments/etc that I whole
heartily agree
As 'line down' is unknown to folks out side of the process.
The calls that even the design team/manager (me) gets at any time of
the day or week...albeit high end computing (super computers) to fix
'my' problem...
That kind of notice goes to the CEO, COO, President, GM, etc and they
*ALL* run around like chickens with their heads cut off...trying to make
managerial decisions to look good, but lost in the frey is that they
were the lamebrains who made the decision that may caused this in the
first place
I was in the automation & process business and heard this as a constant:
"remove the people and replace with the robotic XYZ"...but they never
listened to the part of my presentations that, that will then require
a higher level of maintenance with an even higher and more expensive
'worker'.
They never seemed to have read that, and if they did, ignored that to
pass that responsibility to the line ops manager(s)
This particular thread is telling to me...as to how often they have
regularly schedule 'maintenance' of their tooling. The numbers of
vehicles divided by the numbers built per day/week/month.
A 'person' with the training and longevity on the job would have known
or should have known way before the quality checks, that the torque
was either too much or not enough, or both
A robot is only as good as it's maintenance and the "people" involved
directly.
The low hanging fruit that management normally picks on is the folks
on the line that have no or little input on their decisions...
floor, but never the less, an insiders view/comments/etc that I whole
heartily agree
As 'line down' is unknown to folks out side of the process.
The calls that even the design team/manager (me) gets at any time of
the day or week...albeit high end computing (super computers) to fix
'my' problem...
That kind of notice goes to the CEO, COO, President, GM, etc and they
*ALL* run around like chickens with their heads cut off...trying to make
managerial decisions to look good, but lost in the frey is that they
were the lamebrains who made the decision that may caused this in the
first place
I was in the automation & process business and heard this as a constant:
"remove the people and replace with the robotic XYZ"...but they never
listened to the part of my presentations that, that will then require
a higher level of maintenance with an even higher and more expensive
'worker'.
They never seemed to have read that, and if they did, ignored that to
pass that responsibility to the line ops manager(s)
This particular thread is telling to me...as to how often they have
regularly schedule 'maintenance' of their tooling. The numbers of
vehicles divided by the numbers built per day/week/month.
A 'person' with the training and longevity on the job would have known
or should have known way before the quality checks, that the torque
was either too much or not enough, or both
A robot is only as good as it's maintenance and the "people" involved
directly.
The low hanging fruit that management normally picks on is the folks
on the line that have no or little input on their decisions...
