Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» When you shut all machines completely down how long does it take to bring them back up again and ready to start production again?
On the other hand: I know the local paper mill would take hours to bring some of their machines back to full production, after being shut down for maintenance, to ensure everything was working as expected.
It's a lot easier to completely shut things down than it is to start things back up again I expect. And then wouldn't you have to do test runs to see if any damage had been done from disuse? Thank you for your reply Walt! :)
It varies, depending on what all has to be "brought back up". Turning on machines is relatively simple. However, in manufacturing one has to have the "raw materials" on hand, energy (electricity, diesel, etc.) as well as (skilled) manpower. This requires trucks to bring in the raw materials and take out the "finished" product. This requires fuel (diesel, gasoline) for the trucks. Etc... etc... etc... So depending on how much was shut down how long it will take to "get back up" again.
For example (simplistically speaking) - Say there are 2 plants - one makes cans the other makes food to go into those cans - and 1 grocer who relied on the food plant to stock his shelves. Now, say the plant that makes the cans is forced to shut down due to having too many sick workers. This leaves a shortfall of cans for the food plant to use to distribute their product. Even though the food plant doesn't have to shut down (they have plenty of food to can), the shortage of cans will eventually cause their their production to grind to a halt. This means that the food plant will have to layoff their workers (no work to do) in an effort to stay solvent. This also means that the grocer can't buy the food plants product to fill his shelves, so he has to have to layoff his employees. In order to get back to normal, the can plant must produce enough product to deliver to the food plant. Once this happens, then the food plant can rehire its staff and then get their plant online. Then once the food plant gets up and going, it has to produce enough for the grocer to stock his shelves. Even if the can plant starts again, the other 2 entities have to wait before they can restart... and that takes time.
Thank you for a very thoughtful informative and SIMPLE to understand explanation of what is involved Shuhak. Shutting down is always a lot easier than starting up I expect. Is there any damage done through disuse? :) You can destroy a building faster than construct one. The destructors have it easy. It's the constructors that have it real tough.
Walt O'Reagun 