[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Yes replace one dumpster fire with another dumpster fire.
James Vowles will get it as right as possible.

"Williams boss Vowles labels Albon/Sargeant chassis swap situation in Melbourne ‘unacceptable in modern day F1’"
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...D8sM5JU3zX0wrd

James Vowles was shocked to realize that Williams used to work with an Excel spreadsheet to manage parts:

"The shocking details behind an F1 team's painful revolution"
The Race - Mar 19, 2024
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/s...f1-revolution/

"It is not an exaggeration to say that up to and including at least the initial work on the 2024 Williams, its car builds were handled using Microsoft Excel, with a list of around 20,000 individual components and parts.
Unsurprisingly, ex-Mercedes man Vowles - someone used to class-leading operations and systems – had a damning verdict for that: “The Excel list was a joke. Impossible to navigate and impossible to update.”
Managing a car build is not just about listing all the components needed. There wasn't data on the cost of components, how long they took to build, how many were in the system to be built.
“Take a front wing,” says Vowles. “A front wing is about 400 different bits. And when you say I would like one front wing, what you need to kick off is the metallic bits and the carbon bits that make up that single front wing.
“You need to go into the system, and they need to be ordered. Is a front wing more important than a front wishbone in that circumstance? When do they go through, when is the inspection?
“When you start tracking now hundreds of 1000s of components through your organisation moving around, an Excel spreadsheet is useless.
“You need to know where each one of those independent components are, how long it will take before it's complete, how long it will take before it goes to inspection. If there's been any problems with inspections, whether it has to go back again.
“And once you start putting that level of complexity in which is where modern Formula 1 is, the Excel spreadsheet falls over, and humans fall over. And that's exactly where we are.
“There is more structure and system in our processes now. But they are nowhere near good enough. Nowhere near.”
Missing that raw level of data makes it easier to understand how 20,000 bits end up in limbo. In the scenario Vowles describes, an Excel spreadsheet is “useless”, with emails bouncing back and forth between people and departments chasing missing information. Vowles recalls hearing shop floor workers at Williams saying ‘I don't know where this component is’ and having to physically look around the factory for certain parts."