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I'm not sure when or how SAP got into Maintenance Excellence but it was one of the more brilliant fields they could have brought to their special brand of German autism. Every stereotype you can think of concerning computer science, accounting, and engineering autism all applies to SAP. Its just too convenient it happens to be German. We've come so far from OSHA.jpg. The only bone I can throw is the time after machine gunning through more burst discs than we ever should have in a week resulting in after hours me, a shift supervisor, and a maintenance supervisor staring at SAP queries trying to figure out if another one was hidden in storage somewhere. I did high school intern work at NASA at a desk across from one of the remaining fortran experts and apparently part of the problem is that you need to understand both rocket science and fortran to tease through the extant code base. Same sort of thing why we don't just program solvers per installed chemical process.
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BattleMaster posted:And yet it's still cheaper to find someone to make new PDP-11s for you than to get a new digital control computer hardware and software design past the regulator. So it goes. If only someone could make nuclear power great again.
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Just wear your longest sleeve and nicest watch
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Synthbuttrange posted:Just wear your longest sleeve and nicest watch And a wedding ring so the machine knows I have a family and has mercy.
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Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'
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Nuclear is the one industry that aviation can look at and feel good about their regulatory lot in life.
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Olothreutes posted:The maximum thermal power we're licensed for is five watts, so it's not like these things are going to hurt anyone if something goes wrong, Thank goodness that license is there to stop thermal power exceeding five watts when things go horribly wrong  Or (I'm guessing) is there more to it that makes this reactor safe to play with? fake edit: Found what appears to be the sort of reactor you're talking about as well as an article titled Predicted Behaviour of the AGN 201 Reactor at High Power Levels  Really it only talks about cranking things up to 1,000 watts, but I like the way some people think. I suppose you'd have to work pretty drat hard and avoid all supervision to screw things up to the point people are getting hurt.  Aerojet General Nucleonics Model No. 201, dating from the 50's. With Glory Hole! (1")
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The Sausages posted:Thank goodness that license is there to stop thermal power exceeding five watts when things go horribly wrong It is indeed an AGN-201m. One of like five in the world still operating (four, if you don't count the one that isn't operating at that other school, and three if you want to be specific and not count the korean knock off that one of the korean universities uses). I think, given enough time and fresh fuel, that you could maybe get one of these up to a kilowatt with some clever loading, but they aren't designed to run that high for very long. As the fuel heats up your reactivity will go down and your power will as well. We've discussed this sort of thing in the lab, and probably 100-200 watts is the steady state maximum. However in our system if you hit more than five watts the control panel scrams the reactor and you get to fill out a mountain of paperwork and lose your license. Good times! Also, in that diagram there, the core fuse is mentioned. The fuel is polyethylene loaded with UO2, but the fuse is polystyrene and has a double loading of UO2 in it. Polystyrene melts at a much lower temperature than polyethylene does, so if things go really pear shaped the core fuse will melt and the bottom half of the core drops down. Once that happens the reactor can't be critical, so it's safe, and you get to fill out a mountain of paperwork and lose your license. E: The NRC actually has teeth, though, and fines are insane compared to OSHA poo poo. One year I took my annual operating exam, and the paperwork shows that I was logged in to operate the reactor for the purposes of my annual exam. There's notation that I passed my annual operating exam and the signature of the SRO who was administering the exam. They ran this paperwork up to the guy who keeps the records (the reactor administrator, also an SRO, but not the one giving me my exam) and he put it in my file. But he didn't note in my file that I had passed my annual exam (in a separate location). So that was an $8,000 dollar fine, and I got a stern talking to from the NRC inspector for not making sure that my paperwork was fully completed. Olothreutes fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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Grognan posted:*doesn't kill anyone, gets more years than serial killers* It's probably something like, sentenced for every failed indication, every runlight ran, every reckless driving. Multiple counts of ALL KINDS of traffic violations! I think it's also possible to pick up multiple speeding charges in a single run.
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I find this all very interesting but I don't think someone like me would survive in an industry with that much scrutiny. Financially survive, that is. Thanks for the info. Apparently ISU in Bengal is still using the first AGN-201 ever built.
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Olothreutes posted:The teaching reactor at my university has been in the same configuration since the 60s, and another school with the same model reactor tried to upgrade their reactor to digital instrumentation. They have been out of operation for nearly two years at this point. The maximum thermal power we're licensed for is five watts, so it's not like these things are going to hurt anyone if something goes wrong, they're like the nuclear version of an easy bake oven. MIT? I got to tour that reactor when I worked there, it was super sweet. My favorite anecdote from the tour was in the energy crisis in the 70s, MIT explored converting their reactor to generate power rather than just be a neutron source (and be a sweet nuclear reactor) and they couldn't (safely) get it hot enough to even boil water.
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Fail-safe magnet, perfect for when a failure state can involve high levels of heat
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shame on an IGA posted:Older discussion, but I just want to point out that this isn't a network closet. The orange and green cables are for Siemens servo drives, one is power and the other control data. The purple ones are RS-485 Profibus data bus cables, and this is the nerve center of an unspeakably complex robot. If that robot has 3 million bucks worth of cabling, can someone please post a picture of Saud robot?
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mllaneza posted:I can top that. He was an unemployed truck driver that had lost his job after falling off of a balcony and hurting his back. I think he died in prison. Shine on you crazy diamond.
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Synthbuttrange posted:*Finally falls in a way that he's carried up the escalator after repeatedly tumbling down* Wait, what? I honestly watched it for thirty seconds and thought it was a loop!
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Gorilla Salad posted:Wait, what? Nope - the end is when someone finally notices and runs to stop the escalator.
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Desert Bus 2017 lookin' good.
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I work for an SAP competitor, and we can't even lock down our own Source of Truth among our internal systems/connected systems/legacy internal/crap some sales guy bought to please a client and forced down our throats and no one bothered to decomm it in 7 years/etc. I don't expect many companies using our products bother to utilize them properly, either. Reading this thread made me realize just how OSHA.gif my entire family is. Grandpa lost 4 of his fingats as the supervisor warden of the tag plant at the state prison. They had a giant press to emboss the license plate numbers back then, with buttons on either side, more than an arm's reach apart, that had to be pressed simultaneously. Grandpa had his hand in the machine, probably yelling at the inmates to stop being fuckups and put the plates in straight, goddammit, and that was that. Somehow, the man managed to be a stained glass artisan and carpenter until he finally died in his late 80s. He also would walk up to random people and say, "GIMME ONE!" Or he'd keep his hand tucked by his waist when he first met my friends, just to giggle at their reaction to his thumb-stump. Will they grab the thumb? Grab the wrist like a Roman soldier shake? Attempt a fist bump? JUST STAND THEIR LIKE A CHUCKLEFUCK WHILE HE LAUGHS? Grandpa was awesome. My uncle was a shop teacher who sliced off the tip of his index finger showing his students what not to do with a table saw. That was probably 20 years before he retired. Oh, also, if anyone wants any Libby, MT stories about vermiculite and zonelite asbestos, WR Grace lawsuit fuckery, and the ins and outs of mesothelioma and asbestosis, I may know some things. Guess how my dad paid for college? If you guess, "Worked in the Vermiculite mine in Libby," you are correct.
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Wanna meet Stumpy the grandpa.
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Last Friday I was very careful to wear gloves while mixing a 2M solution of sodium hidroxide, and everything went ok. I wasn't careful 20 minutes later when I rinsed the glassware without gloves. At least fingerprints grow back eventually.
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Bubblyblubber posted:
Only if you still have fingers
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:He was an unemployed truck driver that had lost his job after falling off of a balcony and hurting his back. I think he died in prison. Shine on you crazy diamond. The spy hunter smoke screen he ran for a while was rad af.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:My uncle was a shop teacher who sliced off the tip of his index finger showing his students what not to do with a table saw. That was probably 20 years before he retired. Also your grandpa sounds awesome.
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hanales posted:The spy hunter smoke screen he ran for a while was rad af. I like to think he planned for the tires to catch and spread to the load allowing him to shake loose burning lumber to deter his pursues. Sucks he dropped his payload on a loving short bus, tho.
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this is like a recurring nightmare of mine.
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I warned you about stairs bro! I told you dog!
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Collateral Damage posted:I've never met a shop teacher with ten complete fingers. Mine shortened his by half an inch on the planer. Mine did. In fact sometimes he had eleven digits, if you count the chisel that went through his hand.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Wait, what? There's a timestamp in the bottom right to help 
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Donald Trump looking good.
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Lady Demelza posted:Mine did. In fact sometimes he had eleven digits, if you count the chisel that went through his hand. It's the sworn duty of the shop teacher to either tell stories on how he lost fingers, or demonstrate it. Our's lost a few screwing around with explosives in his youth and had no qualms with telling us how to make various compounds ourselves with help from the science teacher. "Go talk to Mr Science Teacher and ask for some Magnesium if you need a high temp fuse of sorts"
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Humphreys posted:It's the sworn duty of the shop teacher to either tell stories on how he lost fingers, or demonstrate it. Sounds like the physics teacher I had who owned illegally over-powered lasers and helped us build siege engines. When my class did rocketry, he decided 9v batteries were too weak to use for ignition, so he ganked a car battery and wired that up instead. A fellow goon, after I graduated, got to build a trebuchet capable of hucking bowling balls across the football practice field. Still jealous.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:I work for an SAP competitor, and we can't even lock down our own Source of Truth among our internal systems/connected systems/legacy internal/crap some sales guy bought to please a client and forced down our throats and no one bothered to decomm it in 7 years/etc. I don't expect many companies using our products bother to utilize them properly, either. We use sap at work. I really wish I even knew how it was supposed to work, because as is, it's just a hurdle. People have functions that they are supposed to perform, but they don't know how to do them. In some cases they don't even know that they are supposed to do them, or that they even exist. I feel like it just amplified our organizational weaknesses. I wish there was an sap thread, but I doubt there are many people who want to talk about it.
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Bubblyblubber posted:At least fingerprints grow back eventually. Eh, kinda. I can still see the spot on my left index finger where I OSHA'd in high school 20 years ago with 12M HCl. It's looking better after 2 decades but still there.
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Ol Standard Retard posted:what know we of these Toblakai gods Sufficiently niche reference 
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Zev posted:
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Bubblyblubber posted:Last Friday I was very careful to wear gloves while mixing a 2M solution of sodium hidroxide, and everything went ok. What, 2M NaOH is nothing, you can get 50% on your fingers and be fine if you rinse right away. The only thing in a normal lab that insta burns like the movies is concentrated sulphuric.
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