I'm Erica Miller, we're here at Stanley Electric in London, Ohio where I work and I graduated from Columbus State with a degree in Electromechanical Engineering Technology.
Welcome to Stanley!
I went through middle school thinking, Engineering, then I got to High School and all these other stuff was thrown at me and I thought, well, maybe not.
Maybe I have it wrong.
But I'm glad I picked Engineering 'cause that's really where I fit in.
So, troubleshooting is essentially problem-solving.
Getting down to what's wrong with the machine.
We start out with the very basics arriving at the machine.
We have a rough idea of what's going on so sometimes it's not returning back to the original position...
Sometimes something gets stuck.
We tend to ask the operators and the people around the machine that run it everyday what's going on.
And then from there we can trace down the problem to what exactly is happening and why it's happening.
And then if it's a reoccurring problem, we obviously haven't traced it down far enough.
So we'll go back later and try to troubleshoot even more and get to the absolute root cause.
I've always been kind of a "prove 'em wrong" kind of person.
If someone tells you you can't do it, if there's not a pretty good reason why, then why can't I?
You know, if there's a safety issue or a good solid reason... but just 'cause, "Well that's a guy's job," well that's not a good enough reason for me.
And the fact that I've gone out there and I've succeeded, you know, I've got a job.
I've got a pretty good job.
And it's a stable job and it's something that I enjoy.
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