"Free Dave" Day 4: Plant Health Committee

🥱 Dave gets invited to every meeting he shouldn't have to attend.

Every month, the plant health committee needs someone who can connect the dots across systems, departments, and the last fifteen years of maintenance history.

𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐲: Six hours of prep the day before. Two hours in the meeting as the room's institutional memory. Every month. Without fail.

𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧: The system health workflow runs automatically. Recent work summarized and cross-referenced, equipment trending by system, open actions with status, historical context clickable. Dave reviews it, adds what only he would know, and walks in prepared instead of exhausted.

Dave still adds what the data can't. He looks at the briefing and says: "That pump's been touchy since the 2017 impeller replacement." He spots two CRs on different systems that both trace to the same vendor's replacement parts. He initiates an extent-of-condition review before anyone else saw the pattern.

Dave's been this committee's memory for fifteen years. After he retires, that memory is gone — unless the trending data and cross-references are in the system. Today's briefing package creates a record the next system engineer can build on.

Now we’re at 33 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝. Dave didn't work this weekend; 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐤. His wife is suspicious.