Re: Is there a answer for this? -- MIDRANGE-L

What a nightmare Mac !

At my last job (that involved us being part of a large manufacturing facility) 
we
were lucky enough to have our VERY OWN power feed into the Computer Room's HUGE
UPS... All breaker boxes., etc. were also in our area...

Chuck

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> VWilliamson@glazers.com writes:
>
> > You can try to
> >  educate people until you are blue in the face, but everytime you have
> >  turnover and the new night warehouse manager shuts it down, you have it all
> >  over again.
>
> There are power panels for factory that get flipped when crew leaves at end
> of shift when less people will be there the next shift.  Thanks to
> pervasiveness of computers,  and various duties trying to get work completed
> for each day, we have salaried people in offices attached to the factory area
> trying to wrap up the last of the day's transactions when the factory folks
> are flipping off all the switches.
>
> Now the wiring is such that years ago, before computers in every office,
> these salaried offices off of the main factory got wiring so they can have
> lights when the rest of the factory has gone dark, or have people go out to
> supper & return in the evening for a couple hours to get caught up, and the
> switch panels are labeled to hopefully communicate with people which should
> not be flipped because of the side offices they supply what to.
>
> I have asked that computer network power not be off the same main panels as
> general factory building & for the historical equipment that is the way it
> is, but as new people get computers, there is the high chance that they get
> plugged into the same power panels as the rest of the structure.  I have had
> concerns about surges when an entire factory does down or up, but correlating
> 400 error messages with timing of shift changes has identified & resolved any
> such risks.
>
> I am basically suggesting that you correlate where the power panels are for
> your facility that are involved with regular factory electrical support & for
> computer operations supporting the factory, and make sure they are labeled so
> as to minimize accidents, and also have the UPS placement so that if there is
> an accident thanks to new personnel not told all the nuances, the 400 & any
> other critical equipment goes down gracefully, just as it should if there is
> an external power supply disruption.
>
> MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
> AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax
> interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of
> Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical
> sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838
>
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