mendonsy
Member
Sooo ... they are losing $100K per day and they don't have a backup system??? That's a new level of stupid!!
Money is no object!
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Management would rather worry about it than take a cut in bonuses to solve this kind of issue.
Imagine a 13 year old business class low grade desktop computer meant for typical office functions being used to run an HMI that controls the entire plant floor with no backup and the software being too old to run on new hardware.
AustralIan
Member
I am picturing it. It has a CRT and the screensaver asks in scrolling red text what I want to do today. Yes, in my imagination 1997 is 14 years ago..
Windows 2K Pro on a 1997 machine hehe.
AustralIan
Member
I just changed my screen saver to the "what do you want to do today?" Message. Right in the nastalgia!
jraef
Member
We quoted the spares when we built it, they decided against it. It follows that old adage about leading a horse to water.
They are kicking themselves now of course...
cardosocea
Member
It was stupid of them not to get spares (particularly for the computer side of a system), but I've seen plenty of times where companies put out a spares list that is almost a disassembled machine. No regard given to probability of failure and easiness of replacing/upgrading and even quantity, so it looks more like an attempt of selling overpriced parts that no one even thought a bit of.
This being said, apart from certain systems, they should have done their homework and get the parts from the cheapest vendor, just in case.
Got one of those here...only a matter of time.
Had an old Windows NT system go out in '15. Shut down an entire department for several days.
IT Department: "Why don't we use our off-the-shelf computers? They cost so much less!"
Pi
Earlier this year I was a few months at a maintenance department at a heat/power plant.
A computer broke down, it was using XP and some old software that wasn't possible to get anymore. And even if, there was no way of getting the license. They had no backups or anything. This made it impossible for them to run a 90MW heat + 40MW electric power waste fueled CFB boiler. Lots of money lost there.
I managed though to recreate the information on the harddrive and clone it, put new drive in and voila! 12 hours downtime..
A computer broke down, it was using XP and some old software that wasn't possible to get anymore. And even if, there was no way of getting the license. They had no backups or anything. This made it impossible for them to run a 90MW heat + 40MW electric power waste fueled CFB boiler. Lots of money lost there.
I managed though to recreate the information on the harddrive and clone it, put new drive in and voila! 12 hours downtime..
harryting
Lifetime Supporting Member
I think I told this true story before... long long time ago in this other company I worked for. We chartered 2 plane in 2 days to run a $10 capacitor over from the midwest US to the West Coast.
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