Controversial Issues In The Automotive Refinish Industry

The second accident at the "Timken Steel Faircrest plant" company which a is an employee fall down more than 40 feet which led to several broken bones because of just a small mistake. The problem is when he made a maintenance on a crane he wasn't ware Certified safety harness which it could safe his live from the risk. I used to do a maintenance on more than one cran and my company doesn't allow me to go without waring a Certified safety harness because they have to keep all the employees a way from all the risk and even if they didn't told me to ware it, I will not go up to the cran without it, do the fact that no one knows what will happen and even if I am good at this job, I have to work safely. I agree that this company should teach all

The overall performance of the carwash is excellent; the workers finish up the car with no flaws and I make sure that the customers get treated in a professional manner. I know that I have only worked for a few months and you don't think it's a good time yet for me to

One of the main reasons people complain about car repair companies is that what they thought would be a very cheap repair ends up costing much more than advertised, or taking longer than expected. In most cases, this can be avoided by choosing the right car repair company and ensuring that all the work done is documented and agreed before anything is done to your car.

A polyurethane coating is a high gloss finish with exceptional weathering performance characteristics and superior resistance to corrosion and chemicals. The Navy Industrial Hygienist does an annual assessment for the entire command and does the paint operations quarterly. The Hygienist has been conducting a workplace assessment survey of all touch-up painting operations on aircraft and equipment for the past 12 years and the survey records are located in a file cabinet in Shawn Hurdle office. A team of 4 will be here beginning July 7th for a week monitoring our processes and operations. They take an assessment of areas with high potential risk for injuries, occupational illness or damage to Navy

Actions are ethical - Government sets regulations to ensure that safety standards are being met and as long as the manufacturer is meeting those requirements, it must be safe and they must be acting ethically.

If coatings do not penetrate or adhere to the surface well, water can permeate through the coating and cause displacement, further causing corrosion. Factors to prevent this from occurring include reducing the surface tension, viscosity and solvent blend of the coating, and increasing the application temperature and curing time. Coatings are only considered to be a primary defence, and it is therefore recommended to be used alongside another corrosion defence mechanism.

Someone will get hurt easily if there are problems with a machine. If you let someone on a machine that has a problem, even if you weren't aware of it, it will be very difficult to fight fault on that one. It is your job to make sure the machines are safe.

Automotive body repairers hold an advanced degree of harms and sicknesses than the national standard. These employees may experience minor injuries, such as incisions burns, and rasp skin. These workers are unprotected to an assortment of dangers each day, from dealings with unsafe chemicals to the probability of surgically remove members or digits with machine-driven tools

The devised code of ethics plays a vital role in the deciding factor for the engineers. Thus, in the case of the Gee-Whiz Mark 2 (GWM2) having evidence that 25,000 units are not compliant with safety standards in North America or Europe shows that the public's security is in jeopardy. Complying to the first fundamental canon of the NSPE code of ethics for engineers states that, "engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public”. Sadly to say, the current products only put users at a much higher risk of electrocution and death. Thus, by the virtue of the fundamental canon, engineers at Gee-Whiz Mark 2 morally cannot distribute detrimental products to the public in any geographic location, even if the law permits. Taking Toyota Motors in 2009 as an example, where more than 680,000 vehicles were recalled in the United States alone, due to safety concerns of the airbags and the brake lights being defective (Valdes-Dapena, 2012 ). Even though this company could have disregarded the issue and continue to sell defective machines, they instead did what was morally right for the citizens and recalled the products. A product recall of thousands of units is not easy for any company, resulting in a multi-billion financial loss and the expenditure of sales time. Nonetheless, when someone’s life is at stake there is no choice but to resolve the emerged problem, no matter the loss that will be incurred by the

When looking at the paint coating industry you will find that is separated into three different segments, architectural, original equipment manufacturing coatings and special purpose coatings. The segment, which we will focus on, is architectural coatings, which are basically the paints, varnishes, and lacquers you see in your home or any commercial buildings. Usually architectural coatings or shelf goods are purchased by do-it-yourselfers. It has been estimated to account for 43 percent of industry market. Nearly 50% of architectural coatings are sold through brands such as Sears, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Home Depot and hardware stores such as True Value and Ace hardware. Despite heavy competition from these mass specialty paint stores, lumberyards, and hardware outlets have also been able to compete in the paint business Specialty paint stores represent 36 percent of paint and sundry sales and hardware stores and lumberyards represent 14 percent.

When engineers design a product many things go in to the decision making process when it comes to selecting materials, design, and the manufacturing processes. One concern that has always been in the decision making process is trying to make sure the outcome will always be ethically good, although this isn’t always the case. Try as they might, no person is perfect, and accidents do happen. When engineering disasters happen there are many factors that may be involved, such as human factors, design flaws, extreme conditions, and materials failures. When these things do happen it is important to look at the ethical aspect of each part of the failure and

I have always had a love of two things: music and classic cars. It was of no surprise that I purchased my first muscle car at the age of 17. It was a 1973 Mach I Mustang. In 1999 I began employment at Bob’s Auto Body in Rochester, Minnesota. I was a general shop assistant that was responsible for cleaning of the shop, maintenance of equipment as needed, and assisting the auto body technicians. Within six months I had applied and been accepted to Wyoming Technical Institute (WyoTech) in Laramie Wyoming with the goal of obtaining the knowledge necessary for restoring classic cars to even better than their original condition. I attended WyoTech from 2000-2001 and graduated with an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Collision Refinishing Technology with minors in Trim and Upholstery Technology and Applied Service Management. I returned to Bob’s Auto Body upon graduation to start my dream of car restoration in 2001.

Industrial Engineers often face the ethical dilemma of attempting to balance costs with quality and safety. Company management pressures Industrial systems engineers to design processes that are cost efficient, time constrained, and produce a high quality output. This puts the engineer in a tricky balancing act in which they are trying to make every stakeholder happy. Taking risks in order to create cost efficient solutions is not specific to only industrial engineers but applies to all disciplines of engineering, making this topic a relevant discussion. However, this conflict is especially true in a manufacturing setting where industrial engineers thrive, machine operators are often overworked, companies make products in high stakes, large batches, and the range of quality acceptance is growing ever smaller. A relevant example is the engineer who was designing a chemical plant in Mexico. In order to achieve the correct viscosity of the paint stripper, the engineer asked the plant operator to babysit the chemical mixture and manually release the valve when necessary. Engineering management’s decision puts the plant worker at a safety risk in order to achieve a tighter quality and standardization of the chemical stripper production process. Ultimately, this resulted in the catastrophic death of the plant worker and the destruction of the plant.

Engineers are trusted individuals which the public has set high standards for. The public relies on engineers to efficiently, and accurately determine the safety of all products they create. Engineers are required to follow safety procedures in order to ensure the quality of the products they create. However, are these procedures enough to ensure the safety of the public? Or can additional actions be taken in order to improve the safety of a product? If so, to what extent should engineers be required to take matters into their own hands and ensure the safety of products, in return reducing the number of injuries and fatal accidents?

This work is done to study the improvement of the quality in automobile industry. This chapter consists three sections named as “Problem definition”, “Objectives” and “Methodology of the study” respectively. The section 3.1 named as “Problem definition” describes the challenge or difficulty that is to be solved. The solution may be achieved after fulfilling the objective by using some sub-objectives that are described in section 3.2 named as “Objectives”. The methodology described in section 3.3 in details. This methodology has been devised keeping in mind the view of “Problem definition” and the “Objectives” that are suggested for the fulfilment of the solution for the problem.