Re: Is there a answer for this?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

And you ought to see the huge hunk of steel guarding the big power lever
feeding our computer room.  Some a** put the power lever at the same height
as the door handle to that hall.

Rob Berendt

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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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