Managers who make these decisions have absolulutely no idea of the implications of either freezing a post or making a technical person redundant. They only look at the financial savings.
The person in charge of the department needs to put these implications in writing so that management are aware that they will be held responsible for their actions.
Here's a few
1. Loss of morale
2. Increase in sickness due to stress
3. Failure to comply with manufacturer's service intervals
4. Increase in equipment breakdowns which affects waiting times
5. Increase in repair costs
6. Destruction of a PPM/Service System that has probably taken
years to set up and run.
And last but not least.
All responibility for equipment failures due to lack of maintenance should be clearly passed to the management level making these decisions.
