The C-46 and The Ferrari

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 01/17/2014 at 12:56 • Filed to: Planelopnik, Ferrari, C-46

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I'm part of a project that has me away from my normal work area. In the hallway there are a bunch of historic company photos. I like this one in particular.

For anyone interested, we have an FMEA with 2500 data points and climbing. For Sweden will probably enjoy that number.

Bad Idea Hat > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 12:57

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Oh dear god that's a fire hazard.

Jayhawk Jake > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 13:00

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Well, now I can guess what airline you work for...

I should take some pictures of the stuff we have in our service center. Badass historical photos are everywhere

f86sabre > Bad Idea Hat 01/17/2014 at 13:07

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Tee hee

f86sabre > Jayhawk Jake 01/17/2014 at 13:08

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I don't know what you are talking about ;)

Gamecat235 > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 13:10

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What is the FMEA focused on? I'm curious (from a general point of view), and as far as data points, are we speaking of individual lines or something more along the lines of actual field data/reports?

f86sabre > Gamecat235 01/17/2014 at 13:16

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I can't really say exactly what we are doing. Sorry.

The number was potential faults, causes and current controls, severities, occurrence and detection probabilities.

Gamecat235 > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 13:25

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No worries. I figured as much... Some sort of subsystem? I work on the software side of FMEA/RCM/MSG-3 type things. That's a lot of datapoints. (I can guess that you're doing something aero related, I was just curious as to the basic nature of the system you were evaluating).

Bad Idea Hat > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 13:31

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It so completely tragic, too, because the C-46 was such a beautiful, beautiful aircraft.

f86sabre > Gamecat235 01/17/2014 at 13:36

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An underlying business process.

Gamecat235 > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 13:38

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That's far more exciting to me than it should be. =)

f86sabre > Gamecat235 01/17/2014 at 14:08

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Sick puppy. We've been at it, more or less, since the week before Thanksgiving.

f86sabre > Gamecat235 01/17/2014 at 14:09

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You have an engineering degree? I can't remember. We will be hiring some reliability engineers in the next couple of months.

Gamecat235 > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 14:16

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I don't... Actually, getting prepared for a life reset in the relatively near future, too many years of saying that I should have studied to be an engineer. As soon as my daughter is in school full time and my wife is back to work, I want to go back and go for engineering. Better late than never, right?

ETA: After working directly alongside reliability engineers for the last few years, this feeling has only grown. I may return directly to what I'm doing afterward, but I would love to actually have the degree and use it.

f86sabre > Gamecat235 01/17/2014 at 14:31

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Never too late to do something like that. Having the background you have and getting the degree will be a powerful combo. At least in my industry.

Gamecat235 > f86sabre 01/17/2014 at 14:42

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That is sort of my thought process, having had the software and relational database side of things covered, getting the actual engineering knowledge under my belt could actually be a fairly strong position to be in. Not to mention my natural inclination toward tinkering and wanting to understand more about... well... everything. =)