Six Steps Towards Eliminating Obsolete Controls Equipment
“It’ll keep working as long as we don’t look at it!”
Everyone has that control panel lurking in the back of their minds. Each time it’s opened, something breaks, so naturally don’t open it! Don’t look at it or even breathe around it! That’s the impression I get when I visit a lot of manufacturing facilities, and there is a big problem with this mindset…mainly that it won’t work forever. There is a reason why people don’t drive cars from 1985 every day and expect them to keep on chugging along forever, the same goes with the equipment we use to run our manufacturing facilities.
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