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    • Root Cause isn’t that Important September 2009
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    • Preventive Maintenance for Instrumentation Feb 2009
    • Do Maintenance Planners Actually Do Maintenance Planning? Jan 2009
    • What is Reliability worth in $ June 2008
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    • Maintenance Managers – Do you have a clear... Feb 2008
    • What's a "Root cause"? Jan 2008
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    • Adjusting packed centrifugal pumps with open impellers Sept 2007
    • Defining "Maintenance costs" July 2007
    • Using corrective maintenance work plans to ... June 2007
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    • Novozyme wins maintenance excellence using IDCON philosophy
    • Plan a Clear Path to Reliability Improvements
    • Reliability and Maintenance Management Current Best Practices (part 1)
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    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 1)
    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 2)
    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 3)
    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 4)
    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 5)
    • What constitutes world-class reliability and maintenance (part 6)
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    • Should you contract out maintenance?
  • Culture and Management
    • 70-30 Phenomena
    • Are all maintenance organizations overstaffed?
    • Can your mill produce the right results
    • Do You Listen When Your Equipment Speak to you?
    • Headcount Reduction
    • Health care of humans and maintenance of equipment, is there a correlation?
    • Improve Basic Work System First
    • Is people your most valuable resource?
    • Let's Kill Wrench Time Studies!
    • Morning Meetings
    • Plan a Clear Path to Reliability Improvements
    • Reliability and Maintenance Implementation Model – Step I.
    • Reliability and Maintenance Implementation Model – Step II.
    • Reliability and Maintenance Implementation Model – Step III.
    • Right-Sizing of a Maintenance Organization
    • Why many maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver expected results I.
    • Selling maintenance to management
    • The Cost of Doing Nothing
    • The emperor's new clothes
    • Top Management Culture Change
    • What is reliability and asset management?
    • What comes first?
  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI'S)
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  • Leaders in maintenance: A good idea, perhaps?
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    • From Good to Great with Lean Maintenance
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  • Maintainability and Design for Reliability
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    • Beginning a Maintenance and Operations Partnership
    • TPM Maintenance Training: I Bet an Operator Can Do This Inspection!
    • Is maintenance a supplier or partner?
    • Can Operations Manage Maintenance?
    • Operations + Maintenance = Production (part 1)
    • Operations + Maintenance = Production (part 2)
    • Operations + Maintenance = Production (part 3)
    • Operations + Maintenance = Production (part 4)
    • Operations + Maintenance = Production (part 5)
    • Operator Driven Reliability - Who owns your mill’s equipment?
    • Operators in Maintenance
    • The partnership organization
  • Planning and Scheduling
    • A driving lesson for operations and maintenance
    • In Maintenance, Two Plus Two Can Equal Eight
    • Maintenance Planning and Scheduling - The New Profit Center
    • No-no’s for the Maintenance Planner Role
    • Proactive approach to shutdowns reduces potlatch maintenance costs
    • Setting disciplined priorities
  • Preventive Maintenance
    • Checking Best Practices for Preventive Maintenance
    • How to decide frequencies of Preventive Maintenance (PM) Inspections
    • Know Why Training
    • Maintaining a strong performance in the mill
    • Maintenance program reduces pulp loss at Fletcher Challenge Canada
    • Maintenance Training and Maintenance Seminars
    • Optimize your Preventive Maintenance
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    • Preventing failures and extending life
    • Preventing failures and extending life part 2
    • Preventive Maintenance Optimization
    • Preventive Maintenance Optimization (part 1)
    • Preventive Maintenance Optimization (part 2)
    • Preventive Maintenance - CMMS (part 1)
    • Preventive Maintenance - The right content? (part 2)
    • Preventive Maintenance - Execution (part 3)
    • Revitalizing a preventive maintenance program
    • Smurfit stone peruses profitable path with Fernandina maintenance program
    • TPM / Preventive Maintenance at Swedish Steel, the First Three Years
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance
    • Can you really Justify Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) - Part I
    • Can you really Justify Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) - Part II
    • The Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Trap
  • Reliability vs Cost
    • A plan for breaking out of budget jail
    • Inappropriate Measures?
    • Reliability Improvement = Cost Reduction
    • Reliability Improvement = Cost Reduction
    • Reliability Improvements Drive Down Maintenance Costs
    • Reliability and Maintenance in a Recessionary Market
    • Visible and Invisible Maintenance Cost Savings
  • Root Cause Problem Elimination at IDCON
    • Implement a Cost Effective Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) Process
    • Root Cause Analysis is more Effective After Basics are Implemented
    • The root cause just isn’t that important
    • Root Cause Problem Elimination for the Frontline
  • Safety and Maintenance
    • Norbord [an IDCON Client] Achieves Safety Milestones
    • Reliability and Maintenance II.
  • Smart methods
    • Blessed Bolts or Freaking Fasteners Or Bolt Basics!
    • Smart methods (part 1)
    • Smart methods (part 2)
    • Smart methods (part 3)
  • Training
    • Developing and retaining future craft skills
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    • Ninety percent of all Training is wasted
    • Sustainable Reliability and Maintenance Improvements
    • The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
    • Training to maintain
    • Work Processes and Craft Skills
  • Christers Krönika (articles in Swedish)
    • Driftsäker produktion = Drift + Underhåll. (Del 1)
    • Driftsäker produktion = Drift + Underhåll. (Del 2)
    • Driftsäker produktion = Drift + Underhåll. (Del 3)
    • Driftsäker produktion = Drift + Underhåll. (Del 4)
    • Driftsäker produktion = Drift + Underhåll. (Del 5)
    • "Outsourcing" av underhåll. Rätt eller fel? (del 1)
    • "Outsourcing" av underhåll. Rätt eller fel? (del 2)
    • Kalla en spade en spade
    • Det är viktigare att göra rätt saker än att göra saker rätt. II-1
    • Det är viktigare att göra rätt saker än att göra saker rätt. II-2
    • Det är viktigare att göra rätt saker än att göra saker rätt. II-3
    • Kan driften leda en underhållsorganisation?
    • Planering eller Schemaläggning (1)
    • Planering eller Schemaläggning (2)
    • Implementeringsmodell för bättre driftsäkerhet och lägre underhållskostnader I
    • Implementeringsmodell för bättre Driftsäkerhet och lägre underhållskostnader II
    • Nyckeltal för organisationens frontlinje
    • Implementeringsmodell för bättre Driftsäkerhet och lägre underhållskostnader III
    • Implementeringsmodell för bättre Driftsäkerhet och lägre underhållskostnader IV
    • Från underhållsfronten inget nytt?
    • Skador och planerat underhåll
    • Varför misslyckas många förbättringsinitiativ inom underhåll?
    • Varför misslyckas många förbättringsinitiativ inom underhåll? II.
    • Igelkott eller räv? I
    • Igelkott eller räv? II
    • Underhållsparadigmer I.
    • Underhållsparadigmer II.
    • Underhållsparadigmer III.
    • Underhållsparadigmer IV.
    • The Reliability Event
    • Driftsäkerhet och underhåll av Maskiner och Människor - finns det en korrelation?
    • Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 1
    • Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 2
    • Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 3
    • Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 4
    • Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 5
    • Att sälja underhåll till företagsledningen
    • Varför planerar inte planerare?
    • För många ingenjörer?
    • Planeringsmall
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    • Partner eller kund?
    • Partner eller kund? del II.
    • Partner eller kund? del III.
    • Partner eller kund? del IV.
    • Partner eller kund? del V.
    • Bra underhåll är osynligt
    • Vad är Underhållsproduktivitet?
    • Grundorsaksanalys. Tänk med rätt hatt
    • Arbetssätt i en organization som jobbar i ett partnerskap
    • Många vet men få genomför
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    • Underhållsincitament I
    • Lean Maintenance VIII
    • Lean Maintenance IX
    • Öka produktionssäkerheten eller minska kostnaderna?
    • Varför kostar en del pumpar mindre än andra?
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