A culture of maintenance is sorely needed by the custodians of public assets

[Jan]

How to save Eskom and South Africa

Even as South Africa transitions to a low carbon future, whatever the technologies employed, a culture of proper reliability maintenance of all plant is needed, including coal-fired power stations, boilers and associated power generation equipment, throughout the plant lifecycle.

 

[SubtleBeast]

This will only happen when all parties, including government, the utility, private sector energy providers and OEMs pool their resources, expertise, experience, technology, innovation and skills. This will help save Eskom, and the country.

Why do I suddenly think of that great John Lennon song?

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[spiff]

 

[Sapphiron]

Solution is 3 simple words.

Break the Monopoly!

 

[My_King]

They currently have a "muh heritage" of thievery.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

They currently have a "muh heritage" of thievery.

and muh BMW and muh land and muh ANC,
custodianship of state assets, what twaddle is that? when they charging the taxpayer 25K for a roll of loo paper.
and lightbulbs cost 50K just 'cause, muh ANC....

 

[Rickster]

Deja Vu,

We going to see an article about this every week?

 

[ShaunSA]

This is news to who exactly?

 

[PaulMurkin]

This Is Africa
Maintenance, and suchlike are frowned upon..

 

[Pegasus]

 

[HunterNW]

This Is Africa
Maintenance, and suchlike are frowned upon..

Couple of years ago i visited learners in a plant. They were doing fokol. Asked them when's maintenance being done ? Told me the artisans leave it - waits for something to break so they can get a call out and overtime.

 

[wingnut771]

Couple of years ago i visited learners in a plant. They were doing fokol. Asked them when's maintenance being done ? Told me the artisans leave it - waits for something to break so they can get a call out and overtime.

Do they get paid to wait aswell?

 

[HunterNW]

Do they get paid to wait aswell?

Offcourse. They walk around doing fokol, or if there's a breakdown it will get attended to. But maintenance like in the old days ? Fokol.

 

[PaulMurkin]

Offcourse. They walk around doing fokol, or if there's a breakdown it will get attended to. But maintenance like in the old days ? Fokol.

Or like long ago, I tried to tell apprentices that there is this thing called routine maintenance.
Their response:

"Haibo p*ss off, that's not my job!"

@Jan
Eskom cannot be saved, its beyond the point of no return.

 

[HunterNW]

Or like long ago, I tried to tell apprentices that there is this thing called routine maintenance.
Their response:

"Haibo p*ss off, that's not my job!"

@Jan
Eskom cannot be saved, its beyond the point of no return.

There's Planned maintenance officers who prints out jobcards for equipment. Daily, weekly and monthly maintenance. They'll fill in jobcards without doing jack schit. Problem is the foremen - they're so busy with kak paperwork they don't have time to oversee.

 

[TheChamp]

A culture of maintenance is in contradiction to the measured performance targets, but no one will admit it, the mere fact that maintenance jobs cost time but are not given the necessary recognition is proof to that.

No one wants to get bogged down with maintenance jobs while your bonus depends on other more important jobs, it's not the people but the system that is broken. Find the right way of measuring performance in such environments instead of treating everyone like a sales person and things will get much better.

 

[grok]

A culture of maintenance is in contradiction to the measured performance targets, but no one will admit it, the mere fact that maintenance jobs cost time but are not given the necessary recognition is proof to that.

No one wants to get bogged down with maintenance jobs while your bonus depends on other more important jobs, it's not the people but the system that is broken. Find the right way of measuring performance in such environments instead of treating everyone like a sales person and things will get much better.

Funny how the system worked fine under wypipo management..

 

[ToxicBunny]

Funny how the system worked fine under wypipo management..

Probably because the measures being used were more accurate and valid for the results being sought.

Many companies and entities that were performing fine 20+ years ago have gone through periods of chaos and struggle because some senior exec/manager read a book about performance monitoring or went to a course and implemented a system that didn't work for the company/entity.

 

[JohnStarr]

A culture of maintenance is sorely needed by the custodians of public assets <-- this is in the ideal world where custodians of public assests (The government) actually give a hoot about their constituents.

In South Africa's case, it would mean LESS money for things like colonial Jaguars, expensive assets, money to back-pocket etc. No need to stop that gravy train.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Why do I suddenly think of that great John Lennon song?

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Wait, who made that proposal? The proposal is to bind energy to a consortium, meaning that it will continue to be monopolised. Consortiums are best established to compete against monopolies and 'big' businesses, not to assimilate. What is the point having such a consortium when it will be the government and Eskom wanting the most seats at the table?

Anyhow...