Many of the hourly employees here are moving into the combustion/repair services areas because that is where the work load is. Many others are on temporary layoffs next year and being offered unpaid time off currently. The repair area is seriously lacking in training and organization and they are just dumping warm bodies into a pile with no plan of action expecting things to work out. The plant is riding on these areas for livelihood and some areas are already 7 months behind in repair customer delivery dates! Outlook seems bleak given the caliber of leadership and current situation. I smell more lower moral and higher layoff numbers! How long before customers get fed up with the backlog? I'm sure our competitors are also turning their focus to repair services.
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There is a lot more news about aircraft moving manufacturing to Tata India.
Lots of new stuff happening in 2018 Q1
GE is already moving aircraft engine manufacturing to India to cut costs ASAP for Q1.
Any word about Greenville moving to India?
Poor quality and outage extensions from rework and turbine problems from sending out untrained warm bodies is also plaguing field services and we are getting an ear full from angry customers.
GE has really fallen down because GE believes you don't have to be experts anymore and promote people who aren't to leadership positions. Recipe for failure
Don't get your hopes up. Repair is already getting messed up in GVL and customers are getting angry with missed delivery dates and poor quality. There's no shelter here in repair!
Hopefully, the warm bodies will apply their brains and be willing to learn and be productive.Since the repair work is in Greenville, we need to make sure it stays here and doesn't go to the competitors.
They are doing the exact same thing in turbine field service for billing reasons.
Send out people to work on customer turbines who don't know what they are doing, instead of experts for specific machines. Its all about warm bodies and billing but the cost of quality is huge, especially in customers plants with downtime $300,000 a day or so. Only GE managers who don't know what hey are doing would do this because it just doesn't work
With all the new people from new make coming into repair, the company has decided to transfer most of the current leadership, anyone that has even the most remote bit of knowledge about what we do, to departments that they know nothing about and replacing them with leadership that are clueless to help us train the folks that are being transferred to repair. Who makes these decisions? Its no wonder that the ship is sinking.
You don't have to know anything to repair gas turbine parts.
Why cant they just give the warm bodies a six sigma type procedure so they don't have to waste effort training them like they are doing in GE turbine field service? Also they can charge customers to fix the high failure rates lie they do in service when they screw up, which is a lot.
Why should the workers know what they are doing, if the managers who get bonuses and high pay don't. This is how you bring good things to life
You should see how much knowledge is required for people to properly install and service gas turbines of all designs and vintages in the field, especially with untrained warm bodies. GE used to have the best training and field engineers were generally well qualified to do it all after the training program in Schenectady.
This is what is destroying the service business these days and costing GE and our customers a fortune. There is no substitute for expertise and doing it right he first time. Yiu cannot get there with warm bodies and the useless Atlanta PAC
Why does GE do such a lousy job these days, where we used to be a top notch company with the best capabilities operating close to customer needs?
Its obvious per this web page and employees who know what they are doing, yet the management is completely disconnected from this reality. Unfortunately GE has a very bad reputation, instead of being he best like it used to be.
The stock price and earnings tell the story of how GE is valued because of this
There is no substitute for training and expertise especially in parts and turbine service where you really have to know what you are doing. In addition to doing things wrong, expensive rework and forced outage failures traceable to improper work, an exert can usually do things correctly and better in many times faster than those who just don't know.
If you think this is bad where you are, you should see the turbine service business where we have to know steam and gas turbines from all the product departments manufactured since the 1950's including control systems. GE is a mess because present management has never done the work, are disconnected to the realities, and don't respect knowledge anymore and believe in the warm body concept of doing business.
All this is alienating our customers, costing them and GE a fortune, and giving us a bad reputation not to mention boosting our competitors who have their act together.
Sounds like you work in power nozzle repair, better start training that new meat before you get farther behind.