To resurrect this thread, I must heartily congratulate the lads who did the 6S event on the squadron c-stores. Great idea to move the most commonly used consumables from the cages at the side of the hangar into carousels dotted around the work area. And the green label = stuff in the container, red = its nearly depleted, upside down= its empty is also a good idea.
BUT, who the heck did the survey as to what should be in those carousels? What appears to have been asked is..
"What consumables do you need to do training task X so we can ensure we have enough stock"
To which the answer would be...
"A few seals and split pins"
What should have been asked was...
"Even though you haven't run some of these exercises for over four years can you get out your crystal balls and tell us what consumables you need to maintain the ageing Adour training engines in a useable condition bearing in mind the cack-handed trainees will shear bolts, strip thread inserts and, because they can, remove the wrong parts and need other seals, split pins and bolts not included on the original list."
To which the answer would have been
"Well, all that stuff in those neatly catalogued and sorted bins in the c-stores cage tucked away at the side of the hangar causing nobody any harm and costing no-one nothing."
So, rather than having everything we need readliy to hand, we now have a small handful of items and have to hope to god the trainees don't break anything or remove the wrong thing either accidentaly or for access.
And, the piece-de-la-resistance is the fact that all the bits we failed to identify because we didin't think we needed to will either be:
Binned if they weren't in their original packaging, even though they may have been sitting innocently in their own dedicated and clearly marked bin with no doubt as to their identity because, in the case of bolts, they have their freakin part numbers stamped on them. What a bloody waste of money.
Or, returned in their packages to a bonded area in Supply Sqn where we can demand them on a 'collect'. Cosford isn't actually geared up to do collects like a normal unit so we'll still need to fill in a demand voucher and get one of two designated individuals in the hangar (anyone see a flaw here) to sign it before sending the trainee across to supply (for which he'll probably have to get changed because Cosford can't have trainees going around in demins outside the hangar) to find out if they've even got the poxy item in the first place. How fecking streamlined and efficient is that?
Sorry guys, great idea with the carousels, bit of a SNAFU over what actually goes in them.