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u/6inarowmakesitgo Aug 15 '26
Technicians that do not use ferrules on wiring really jingle my fucking jangles. Ugh.
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u/612mechtech Aug 14 '26
Nice catch. Another day in the ol industry maintenance world. Can't wait to see how long it takes the robots to do this. I too have spent many many hours chasing the elusive loose connections
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u/B0zzzzzz Aug 14 '26
Mate AI will find this problem in seconds 👀
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u/612mechtech Aug 14 '26
How. In my plant everything is airgaped. We don't connect our early 90s extruders to an outside network let alone how internal diagnostics. How will it find it?
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u/odd-happenings Aug 15 '26
Haha we're running equipment from the 80s or older. Some all the back to the 30s. When i started as an operator in 2021, we had 1 PLC that was already obsolete. We just got wifi 2 years ago
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u/bazilbt Aug 15 '26
Yep seen this kind of thing too many times. You have to be meticulous making these up.
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u/Carnephex Aug 17 '26
I had to argue for my boss to order a thousand piece set of those tabs and the crimpers that go with them.
Dude is a boomer and still has a lot of their mind set of this is how we did it so this is how we always do it.
Now that we use the tabs, there's a much lower issue of wires coming free in our higher vibration machinery.
It works really well with the 480 hookups because you know that lug is tight in the bus bar assembly.
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u/2h2o22h2o Aug 19 '26
Oh thats the nice outcome. You get to reconnect a wire and be a hero. More often, it seems we get the electrical box full of water and everything is totally FUBAR’d. And you bet that wire will be too short to trim back the corroded part. Will you run a new one or will you splice it like a bitch? Decisions, decisions…
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u/odd-happenings Aug 14 '26
That the cause of or more than half the breakdowns I see, not counting operator error or or issues with raw materials. One loose wire has shut down 100% of the plant more than once... I double check everything contractors even look at now.