[forum456]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/t...with-costs

[Lukongsimi]

cars also need maintenance
This type of money can’t be saved
It costs even more to repair if trains breakdown

[Ola]

Seah graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Electronics Engineering (EE).  He then went on to complete a Master of Science (EE) from Naval Postgraduate School, California and graduated with distinction in 1983.  He attended the Stanford-NUS Executive Program in 1993.  At Harvard University, he attended the Management Development (1996) and Advanced Management Programme (2005)

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Nothing wrong with AI but the stewpig Seah, lah

Did he add the weather conditions, the number of times it rains or the number of times the train brakes

into the formula or it is his "Garbage In, Garbage Out"  instead?

[revealer]

Preventative maintenance is never considered over maintenance. Mechanical parts would usually have symptoms of noise and vibration b4 they breakdown. Proper data analytics and preventive maintenance should have avoid such mechanical breakdowns.

[Alice Alicia]

Over maintenance or cutting corners?

Where have the maintenance costs gone to?
Pap's cronies ' companies?

[Everything Everywhere]

Scrapping cars after only 10 years is worse than over maintenance.

A waste of resources and raw materials to generate huge government revenue.

[p1acebo]

Sack the useless phucker. Now only Saw Phiak Hwa beri heypi

[p1acebo]

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2024/09...l-program/

[p1acebo]

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2024/09...isruption/

[FangFang]

Same as all companies

[cityhantam]

cars also need maintenance
This type of money can’t be saved
It costs even more to repair if trains breakdown

 COE for cars only last for 10 years!

SMRT's Kawasaki : 35 years! 

[Scythian]

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No maintenance is different from over maintenance

[RiseofAsia]

 COE for cars only last for 10 years!

SMRT's Kawasaki : 35 years! 

Objectives are different lah.
One is squeezing the sheep.
The other one is maximising profit lah.

[cityhantam]

Objectives are different lah.
One is squeezing the sheep.
The other one is maximising profit lah.

Wow!

Will SIA follow and use until 35 years or more to maximise profit? 

[revealer]

The date of the Straits Time article is June 2023, more than one year ago. The timing and the remarks about over maintenance appears to suggest tt the maintenance crews could hv been cut to save cost; as a result, the loosening of the axle box of the problematic train was not spotted and allowed to b used. Every vehicle on the road has axle box and we never read about axle box dropping off and cause accidents.

[Alice Alicia]

Yes, correct.

Avoiding over maintenance is a cheap excuse for no maintenance. In spite of the constant fares increases.

[Pegasus]

Why are we reverting to that overpaid ex DFS salesgirl management style? Didn’t we learn our lesson? Or are we really moving from 1st world to third?
10 years and our cars have to be scrapped or sent to other third world countries to be used. I saw my late father’s Mercedes model in Cheras this year, beautiful. I recalled sitting in the front seat when I was a child. I am now a senior citizen. My father passed away last century.
Contrast this with our SMRT?
I recalled SMRT engineers called to the scene of the hotel new world collapse. These were real expat engineers from first world countries. They were really good. I remembered these because I was one of the 39,000 SAF reservists who were transferred to SCDF to strengthen our height and ground rescue operations.
Contrast this to our present situation. Things are breaking down and our leaders are still howling about over maintenance? What have we been over maintaining? Their salaries? Or the axles of our aging trains? How many decades since SMRT was built?
Are we really moving from 1st world to 3rd?

[ArielCasper]

Neither do we want SMRT to keep raising prices year in year out..

The best thing despite such long disruption, consumers are likely to receive 0 compensation.

[Scythian]

Yes, correct.

Avoiding over maintenance is a cheap excuse for no maintenance. In spite of the constant fares increases.

"All MRT train commuters prefer over maintenance than no maintenance 

How can W/O budget be over maintenance?"

[Blasterlord2]

Technically, what he said isn't wrong. It's wrong only when bad things happen.

[Bigiron]

But the image of Singapore’s MRT has taken an occasional knock over the years from breakdowns and delays. The latest troubles prompted some netizens to grumble about the government’s announcement earlier this month that fares for buses and trains will increase in December.

It’s another challenge for new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who is preparing to lead the ruling People’s Action Party in a general election after his predecessor stepped down in May.

The government has spent billions building new lines and buttressing its existing bus and rail networks. It recently completed a S$2.6 billion upgrade of its two oldest lines, including the East-West line that suffered this week’s outage.

I was one of the hundreds of unlucky commuters caught up in this week’s Singapore MRT chaos. Here's what it was like.

That and more in this week's free Singapore Edition:

https://bloom.bg/3Y0WSIq

📷: Paul Miller/Bloomberg

[Huliwang]

This time axle box dropped. What's next to fall apart? Will the floor board drop when the train is overcrowded with more than 6 million people? Dam scary.     

[kc172021]

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No maintenance is different from over maintenance

Precisely. they alwaus  come out with this kind of lame excuses on over maintnance" to cover their MIA, But what to do, they have mountain behind their non performance

[revealer]

If the SMRT Chairman had known tt this incident due to poorer maintenance is do extensive and cost the company so much money and affected the hard livings of so many residences, would he had said the same thing last year?

[starbugs]

This type of person studied engineering but didn't practise as an engineer before. Career soldier. I bet he doesn't even know to maintain his own car but he just sends it to the workshop.

[klat]

Over maintenance? Don’t kid people lah. More like no maintenance.

[singaporean1964]

why do u think the chairman is saying 'We don’t want overmaintenance’: SMRT chairman flags to balance reliability with costs'

he obvioudly cut cost on maintenance...

rigt now he should get his engineers to check all the axle boxes of the trains (if he had been negleting maintenance on the boxes to cut costs...

the problem of cost comes down to their huge salaries
they had to cut cost to boost 'profitable'..so they can take their pay 'peacefully'
if smrt only makes a frw million or even lose a few million

pple will be asking why is he there and earning millions in salary...
so he needs to cut from somewhere to bring smrt to more profitability...and recently got the audacity to increase the fares...bet that he was thinking of increasing his pay package...

[Alice Alicia]

Meanwhile...

they are over maintaining the ministers and mayors. Double standard.

[Ola]

Technically, what he said isn't wrong. It's wrong only when bad things happen.

PAP is now using AI to make guesses and decision

Then hire so many Army Generals, lawyers and Bookworms for what?

[talky]

PAP is now using AI to make guesses and decision

Then hire so many Army Generals, lawyers and Bookworms for what?

why smrt does not employ real qualified experienced engineers fr taiwan hk japan ,
their  salary ofe ard1m a yr   is by any measure better than those paper general drawing 1m to 2m.