Plant recordkeeping

[rmiell]

Our electric plant was commissioned in 1939. Daily log sheets were, and continue to be recorded by hand. Up until 2007, this recordkeeping was done on a 16 1/2" X 26" sheet. Since then, the operators enter info onto a legal sized paper which is then input into a Microsoft access program I created.

My question concerns the large logsheets. In the past, each year's logsheets were bound using a masonite top and bottom, and bound together using bolts & nuts. These yearly books have been kept in a varity of cabinets, both homemade and modified paint cabinets. See attached image (sorry, I forgot to rotate image before uploading it.)

We have a total of 69 books, all about 5" thick. The records from 2007 are stored in a file box, with two years worth of sheets in each box.

I want to see if anyone has purchased or made cabinets for these old types of books. I am assumming that other plants used the same types of daily logsheets, in the good old days.

I am also attaching an image of our plant from around 1940. If you look closely, you can see the operator bending over a table, lower left side, where he is entering the engine information onto a daily logsheet.

Anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks in advance.

[RStevens]

Hello your plant is impressive with the exposed generators. regarding the old log books, have you looked into digitizing it? There are professional outfits that will convert old printed documents into a digital form and with it digitized you can easily search logs for past history. With the hardcopies, you can just encase it to preserve it. The three power plants that ive worked at all were using excel for the daily log.. there are some software programs out there that will incorprate real time opearting profiles with each log event but since your units are fairly simple it might not be worth the expense for such an intuitive program.
thanks

Originally Posted by rmiell

Our electric plant was commissioned in 1939. Daily log sheets were, and continue to be recorded by hand. Up until 2007, this recordkeeping was done on a 16 1/2" X 26" sheet. Since then, the operators enter info onto a legal sized paper which is then input into a Microsoft access program I created.

My question concerns the large logsheets. In the past, each year's logsheets were bound using a masonite top and bottom, and bound together using bolts & nuts. These yearly books have been kept in a varity of cabinets, both homemade and modified paint cabinets. See attached image (sorry, I forgot to rotate image before uploading it.)

We have a total of 69 books, all about 5" thick. The records from 2007 are stored in a file box, with two years worth of sheets in each box.

I want to see if anyone has purchased or made cabinets for these old types of books. I am assumming that other plants used the same types of daily logsheets, in the good old days.

I am also attaching an image of our plant from around 1940. If you look closely, you can see the operator bending over a table, lower left side, where he is entering the engine information onto a daily logsheet.

Anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks in advance.