Panel paranoia

摘要

In a famous scene from the 1954 movie "The Caine Muntiny", Humphrey Bogart's character Captain Queeg describes four ways to do anything: "The right way, the wrong way, the Navy's way and my way", and then announces that everybody aboard had better do it his way.On the hopefully less dramatic setting of the production floor, Bogie's theory still holds true. Maintenance personnel often develop ideas that sometimes don't seem important or relevant to others. Here's one of mine: Electrical panels and distribution boxes. Every plant has them, and most have been spliced, patched and modified until a schematic is a necessity if you're tackling a problem any distance from the source or load. Trouble is, that schematic is usually in an engineer's filing cabinet, and I can't find it or him...and the downtime is piling up.