Evidence
Read together, they show molds here are cleaned after they fail, not at a set count of shots.
On the walk
Mold cleaned in a stopped press
17:35We saw a mold being cleaned inside a stopped press. Its job waited while the press stood.
Checked by us on a still of the film
Repair log on the mold shop wall
22:10The repair log on the wall lists most repairs after a mold had failed in a press.
Checked by us on a still of the film
Staff remark on mold repairs
22:34 to 22:43Plant staff said a mold is fixed when it stops. Nobody named a plan for cleaning molds.
Said by plant staff on the walk
No counter on molds on the rack
24:40We counted 14 molds on the rack. None showed a counter of the shots it has made.
Counted by us on stills of the film
Plant records
Repairs logged after a failure
Of 212 mold repairs in the log, 171 were made after the mold had failed in a press.
The mold shop repair log, twelve months
Stops on eight molds
Eight molds stop a press about nine times per week. A fix would start with them.
The ERP downtime log, twelve months