Saturday, March 26, 2016
Week 4
During the previous week, the cutting and welding of metal during the construction of a new hydration tank caused rust particles to spread into the air and contaminated the entire hydration room. I had to help with auditing boxes of the battery seals to check for rust particles, we had to check individual seals until we found one with rust or we hit 100. Every box that we audited had rust contamination. The facility had to halt the hydration of seals and they had to clean the hydration room with a power washer and clean the air ducts. The hydration tank was brought to the car wash to be thoroughly cleaned. The production was slowed and a lot of work was need, all resulting from one small mistake.
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Hi Liwen, your project looks great! What was it like to deal with an unprecedented mistake of this level? Did you feel flustered?
ReplyDeleteThe rust held back the production of seals for about a week, the contaminated products could not be recycled and had to be tossed out. A lot of resources were wasted and it took a lot of labor to fix everything. I could see a lot of people, especially the QA department, were frustrated because the contaminants not only slowed production but also they would have to sort out the problem with the battery companies who have high standards. Nikhil and I were given more work in auditing but it wasn't that overwhelming for us
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