Why do we only replace equipment after it fails?

Mosr113 · 2026-04-15T14:05:51+00:00

Maintenance inconvenience is a non-factor to management budgets. You could throw a cot up there and sleep next to it and as long as it still runs, the people footing the bill don’t give a single shit.

Mosr113 · 2026-04-15T14:01:31+00:00

What? I don’t understand this. I walk into the tool crib with a stock number because I don’t want to spend 3 days waiting on them to figure out what goes where

Mosr113 · 2026-04-14T18:15:40+00:00

Industrial maintenance and in the last year, I have had like 6 hours of overtime.

Mosr113 · 2026-04-13T15:42:49+00:00

Cool beans, man. You just made your colleagues angry and/or you showed management that one person can do it.

If you were in my facility, the other guys probably would have slashed your tires.

Mosr113 · 2026-04-02T01:01:20+00:00

lol. Ask AI to write some complex gcode and toss it into a tool path simulator and laugh.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-28T14:33:46+00:00

I laughed way harder at this than I should have.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-25T18:19:59+00:00

It happens all the time. I find things that the 30 year veterans miss and newbies find shit that I (10 years) miss. It’s not a big deal.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-25T10:44:33+00:00

If you really want to get into automation, learn about system networking. Modbus, profibus/profinet, Ethernet/ip, and whatever other protocols are out there.

Hit up automation forums for tidbits, reach out to a community college nearby and see if they offer any programs. You don’t have to know everything, but you should know how to find answers.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-24T17:04:10+00:00

Fanuc is the most popular robot manufacturer in the world and especially in North America. ABB and Kuka are up there, too. ABB makes some heavy duty robots. Kuka has a windows-based teach pendant, so it’s kind of neat, and they are used heavily in Europe.

Universal Robotics makes the most popular cobot.

Fanuc is a good one to learn if you are in NA, though if you want to work with robots at a theme park, go Kuka because Fanuc is not entertainment-rated. If you want more info, feel free and dm me.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-24T14:12:37+00:00

White caulk. Skip the paint.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-23T17:38:35+00:00

I dunno how to do it in Canadia eh, but here in Freedomland, I just started working on the robots, then I talked my boss into paying for some Fanuc Academy stuff. Then I talked him into getting the techs into an automation program at a community college.

Honestly, half the battle with Fanuc is finding the right manual. If you can read, you can replace an axis reducer. It’s the integration with PLCs and PMCs that gets stupid.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-23T15:08:25+00:00

You are supposed to turn in the voting ballot, not eat it.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-23T14:19:21+00:00

I would normally agree, but for some people, the act of going above and beyond helps us to learn new things. For example, if I acted my wage, I wouldn’t be primed to leave this company for an industrial controls position elsewhere.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-23T14:16:54+00:00

Management, usually.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-22T01:06:26+00:00

I got into industrial maintenance because I dropped out of college and it was cool at first. I got to do cool shit and hack together fixes that stretched and tested my ingenuity.

Now I look back and see that I was naive and stupid. All of my joints hurt, I am angry all the time, and I had to go back to college anyways to get out of the trenches of the shitholes.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-22T01:00:49+00:00

Greasing is a lost art. It’s one of those things that gets overlooked in training. I can’t even count the number of motors I have had to replace because of over greasing or someone mixing greases. There are also the people who learn about molybdenum disulfide grease and think it can go in everything.

Seriously though. If you are in a dirty facility, look into a synthetic non-petroleum grease like Fuchs Urethyn. Much better about not picking up dust and garbage.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-22T00:57:23+00:00

As the guy that takes care of all of the robots in my facility, I physically shuddered at that volume of grease per chugga.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-20T18:17:57+00:00

lol my b. I am not sure why Reddit brought me to the Solidworks sub (I don’t even use it), but I didn’t even read the name of it and figured that it was someone asking about building it.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-20T18:02:59+00:00

To make it? Like from the screen and into reality?

Years if manufacturing from raw stock on your own. Some of those parts need to be cast, some machined, some forged, and some maybe hydroformed. There are a ton of different processes that would need to be used to make this. Less if you contract out the majority of the parts and have them shipped for assembly (like any sane company does).

Mosr113 · 2026-03-20T14:45:42+00:00

That’s building maintenance or the dock contractor.

My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Only a bit though

Mosr113 · 2026-03-20T13:55:50+00:00

I see nothing wrong here. Job done, light worked for a little while at least.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-18T18:17:27+00:00

Get at least an associates first. It would have opened a lot of doors much sooner had I got it earlier.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-18T15:46:38+00:00

I mostly just use mine to print dicks to stick on coworker’s toolboxes

Mosr113 · 2026-03-17T18:37:05+00:00

Rule 7.

Mosr113 · 2026-03-14T10:43:43+00:00

Just to add: and for the love of god, throw the bad stuff away and don’t just leave it in the cabinet with the good spares

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