What You Should Do Before a Plant Closure
It’s happened … the pronouncement that a major portion of your facility is being closed for the foreseeable future. What do you do next?
Accept the news that your plant is fa an impending plant shutdown. It is not necessarily a “knockout” for the plant or your career. Commemorate, in the often uneven battleground called the global marketplace, just about anything can happen. Be ready to get up and start fighting again. Write responsibility to an individual for writing a list of possible scenarios. The individual should have enough clout to implement the chosen master plan, if necessary. Go to the top of the company and request that sufficient funds be made available to execute the initial shutdown and retention strategy. Choose the right type of long-term equipment caretakers. Those selected are often certainty or ex-supervisory types rather than experienced operator/craftsmen with intimate knowledge of the equipment. Don’t admit critical
