Do you have a routine/activity to start the working day?
* formal daily operations meeting?
* informal chat with crew/operators with a cup of coffee?
* walkthrough/inspect areas?
* checking e-mails, yesterday's completed orders?
* answer the phone that is ringing even before you arrive to the desk?

Coffee.....give me coffee........now!

After the marvelous miracle caffeine has risen me from the dead, I check e-mail and phone messages for any special requests that may have come in. Next, it's off to the races for a daily juggle between my routine vibration inspections and my mountain of special projects.

David Eason

I vote for coffee also...

Checking our electronic daily log for all unscheduled events that may have occurred since the previous day and of course a strong cup of coffee.

First distributing tasks between the crew, then a short talk about security and finally an informal chat with some jokes.

I plan to do some PM work.
And we discuss the problems found by the operator.

We have team meetings between the shifts, then I run through my emails and check our equipment monitor and look for down machines. If everything is up and running then I'll look through our pms and talk to production to see what machines we can have for the day

I check e-mail, CMMS registers and talk with my boss for diferents items (jobs, sports, life...). Then I start my tasks programmed for the day. And I prefer the mineral water
...have a great day

On arrival I pass through the mess room and prepare a capuccino which I take with me to the office.

I look at the SCADA/BMS system to check plant, alarms, values and look at trends throughout the nite.

Then cheeck messages left on the phone...(in the morning these are normally the calls for help!)

Then I turn to emails.

If there is no email which need to attend to right away I do a plant tour to meet my men.

We try to discuss programmes at the end of the day so that in the morning everyone knows where to start and what to do. We try to keep to the plan unless we get urgent requests.

Rennie, I envy you. At my pharma plant no coffee or any other food can be taken out of the cafeteria, break rooms or some conference rooms. Food residues attract insects so pest control procedure rules out it. Many office areas are close to manufacturing / packaging areas and insect could crawl from one to another.