• Question: If you and your colleagues stopped working for a week what would happen

    Asked by naps532cham6 to Caroline on 30 Sep 2025.
    • Photo: Caroline Roche

      Caroline Roche answered on 30 Sep 2025:

      Probably nothing, the project timeline might get longer but we never leave a control system in a dangerous position at the end of the day so if we don’t come back in the morning it will still be ok.
      We would all have to down tools for atleast a month or so (depending on the customer) to really start to have an affect.

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    Andrew M commented on :

    It would depend on the time of the year. We shut down for maintenance for one week to allow the machinery and services to me overhauled without us getting in the way, adding to the dangers and delaying the work. The rest of the year it would mean that products aren’t released, production is delayed, parts aren’t shipped out..This could lead to line stops at our customers for which we’d be liable – the costs would add up very quickly. We might miss submission deadlines for product trials and loose out on future business. If it was just a week, we could probably cope with rush shipment and supply from stock. If it was longer we might start getting into trouble. The recent cyber attacks on, for example, M&S and Jaguar Land Rover, have sent a cold sweat down many management spines.