[bigjohn1139]

Hi,
Newbie here. I am an Engineer here at the Nissan production plant in Smyrna, TN where your Frontier was built. I have owned many Nissans over the years but this is the first time I have ran across this site. Glad I did! Seems as though many aftermarket and auto part related companys never carry products for our Nissans so I'm thinking the time here will be well spent with the combined experience of ownership on this site.

Thanks for accepting my registration and I will do everything in my power to help anyone I can. I'm not an expert by any means but I do know a few things and the resources I have here at Nissan may be useful to someone.

Currently Own:
2001 Frontier, SE, Desert Runner, 152K.
2004 Xterra, SE, 4x4, 128K.

BigJohn

 

[HightecRednec]

Welcome to the club from a fellow Tennessean!

 

[goody]

Welcome aboard.

 

[HKYStormFront]

welcome! what does your job specifically entail (if you have permission to say)? were you at ZCON last week?

 

[Wirenut]

Welcome. Did the plant tour a few years back. Really enjoyed it.

 

[bigjohn1139]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am a Maintenance Engineer. I design permanent countermeasures for recurring issues on the plant production equipment. Facets of the design changes include networking, robotics, machine automation, hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanical. As you can see we are a well rounded group...

 

[HKYStormFront]

very cool, i do PLC work at an automated warehouse as well :thumbsup:

 

[chaz]

welcome to the club,you must be amazed at what some of the members here have done to to thier trucks,i was

 

[bigjohn1139]

StormFront - Yes I do lots of PLC work. What brand do you have there? We have all AB - PLC5, SLC500 and ControlLogix.

Chaz - Yes amazed doesn't describe it well enough though.

BigJohn.

 

[HKYStormFront]

Siemens here, never tried AB stuff. this is my first PLC job, was a mechanic before. pretty fascinating how all this stuff works

 

[bigjohn1139]

Yes it is...I learn something new every day and I have been doing it for almost 20 years.

 

[HKYStormFront]

i know what you mean, seems like every time i get called out to check on an issue it's something new :wtf:

 

[bigjohn1139]

Well stick with it because that skill set is highly valued in a lot of markets. The more experience you have the more job security you have.

 

[SilverBullet]

Welcome to CF!

 

[bigjohn1139]

Thanks Silver Bullet! Nice Ride.

 

[techtable]

:hi: Welcome to the club bigjohn1139, glad to see you as a Nissan Engineer onboard here. Hope to hear you share some of the future build at Nissan plan. And I'm proud to own one of your built Nissan product. :goodjob: :fantastic:

TT,

 

[bigjohn1139]

Thanks TT, glad to be a part of the club! I will be happy to share what info I can.

BigJohn.

 

[ToddG]

Welcome aboard the best site for everything Frontier!

Now we know who to blame for any problems we have with our trucks . . . . . LOL.

 

[bigjohn1139]

Thanks Todd Ive been warmly welcomed...

 

[d1sc0ver]

Well stick with it because that skill set is highly valued in a lot of markets. The more experience you have the more job security you have.

Welcome aboard BigJohn.

I've had some PLC experience in my career path as well. They called us Automation Engineers at Dexter Shoe Company where I worked from 1998-2002. Most of my work consisted of gutting Italian shoe manufacturing equipment, looking at the schematics to figure out what they were doing and converting the whole business using Allen-Bradley PLC gear. Intersting and challenging work, and I learned to 'read' Italian.

Again...welcome.