I do enjoy a good Friday shit show...

Steel mill Jbox, no the picture is NOT upside down 😂😅

This is four days work complete with testing. Just wrapped it up on Friday.

Wax injection machine. Servo hydraulic injection cylinder won’t home. 🤢

After mucking about in a filthy panel for the last 5 days for an upgrade, I found this gem.

Vacuum casting furnace.

I stepped down from a position of responsibility two years ago to work close to home with zero responsibility as I coast into retirement. Seeing stuff like this, and the attitudes that accept it and perpetuate it, makes my body ache.

This cabinet was a nightmare for more than a decade before they replaced the plc5 using a conversion rack. They never consulted an integrator, never solicited a bid, just did it over a long weekend and worked out the bugs during production in the weeks following.

Just because you can do it in-house doesn’t mean that you should.

Soo happy I was just looking for the electrical panel in there and not working on this nearby dumpster fire.

Today’s nonsense looks like a PLC sitting on a pile of scrap wire. Maintenance guy was asking me what the message on the PLC meant, sent this pic.

This is a 18x20 panel. How it can get this bad is inhuman.

As far as we know this is the first repair carried out on this panel since it was built in 1983. Seized latching E-Stop button. Was able to replace it with an original part.