Organizing a Maintenance Department Are you trying to figure your role in your company or attempting to improve the effectiveness of your organization? Or maybe
How to reduce maintenance cost the right way comes up a lot for our clients. Unfortunately, many organizations often have the goal of reducing maintenance
A maintenance management expert is one option when you decide to perform a reliability and maintenance assessment of your maintenance organization. In this video and
The chain of effective maintenance management is key to improving your This video is from Christer Idhammar’s Keynote presentation at Mainstream Conference in 2021. He
Continuous improvement is hard to get to if you don’t know where to start. Gathering the right data about your maintenance team Imagine you are
Leading maintenance in a plant/mine/mill takes a lot of effort. Emergency work comes in a steady stream, some are breakdowns, other work is just “honey-do-jobs.” The workforce needs to be managed, the budget must be met, and equipment reliability must be maintained and hopefully even improved…
If you don’t know by now, the maintenance planning and scheduling process is integral to reliability in industrial and facilities management. Over my 30 years
There’s a certain category of maintenance jobs known as “small jobs” which meet four criteria. This type of job is managed instead of planned and as such they do not need to go through the formal planning process.
Shutdown/Turnarounds aren’t managed well. Late start-ups make it impossible to complete work on time. Different departments having disparate objectives makes it impossible to work as a team.
We cover a lot of ground in this article. Below is the table of contents to help you navigate. What is maintenance planning and scheduling?
Owe Forsberg introduces you to Risk Based Work Selection for shutdown or turnarounds in part 2 of this six part video series. This shutdown technique
From operations point of view, they want to produce. But in order to produce you have to have your equipment running at peak performance and
What is Autonomous Maintenance? The term Autonomous Maintenance is most known as one of the eight pillars in TPM – Total Productive Maintenance. The main
Preventive Maintenance examples of why you can’t just document a PM program, you have to execute the program. Is it just me who thinks that
What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? Reliability Centered Maintenance or RCM an in-depth asset analysis tool used
Recently, I saw a sign in a plant that read – “MAINTENANCE – TO MAINTAIN, KEEP, PRESERVE, PROTECT” may be simple but it is the
You have some maintenance tasks to complete and you may be considering who can do it? In this video from our Develop and Manage PM
Part III of our Root Cause Analysis series “Common RCFA Mistakes” Techniques for root cause analysis include avoiding common mistakes. In Parts I and II
RCFA problem statements are key to solving the right problem at your plant but sometimes the problem statement that we write down isn’t a fact.
It is easy to make mistakes when performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – we have all done it. Common RCFA mistakes includes overwriting
What tools are effective for Root Cause Failure Analysis or RCFA? What tools are effective when you’re conducting a root cause investigation? In this second
Root cause confusion There is a lot of confusion between diagram, tools, software and company names for root cause. This video series, featuring Torbjorn Idhammar,
How often is the phrase “The ROOT Cause of the problem” used at your plant/mill? This phrase is a bit symptomatic of how Root Cause
As a planner using a CMMS system, are you confused about what to add to the system as you are planning work? Are there times
Checking bearings to detect early signs of failure is an excellent way extend the life of equipment, but don’t do it wrong! You need to
When you are performing condition monitoring tasks, don’t just rely on expensive condition monitoring tools, some unusual and simple tools can be used. Here’s a
Enjoy this quick recap from our time at this year’s MINExpo 2021 in Las Vegas. This video features interviews and presentations from LOKRING, COGEP, Lanfranco,
A trailer was repaired after scraping the side a few years ago. The bolts that hold the cross members to the aluminum frame on the
Infrared (IR) thermography has become an essential tool in many Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Programs. In spite of becoming more user-friendly and affordable, there is a
The Bill of Materials is a complete and accurate list of parts for each asset. Having correct BOMs is a key element of the technical database.
Kitting and staging of parts is a supporting character in overall maintenance efficiency. Tom Odden, with IDCON Scandinavia is giving you practical advice to improve
Let IDCON President and CEO Tor Idhammar walk you through why it is important to have good PMs for Spare Parts.
Are you sure that the parts you need will be in the storeroom when you need them? Materials and Spare parts management is an opportunity
When is a spare part obsolete? There are a few myths surrounding obsolete spare parts:
Our storeroom and spare parts organization are usually the area with more opportunities regarding reliability operation. What does good look like? What elements are needed?
Svar på fråga Kritikalitet av utrustning har inget med inspektionsintervall att göra. Det är felutvecklingstiden som bestämmer hur ofta en komponent bör inspekteras. Om kostnaden
Jag har länge påstått att det finns ett starkt förhållande mellan skador och planerade underhållsarbeten likaväl som det finns ett starkt förhållande mellan planerat och
Jag har skrivit mycket om att arbeta i ett partnerskap i stället för att arbeta i ett kund och leverantörförhållande mellan drift och underhåll. Jag
Alla som medverkat i förbättringsinitiativ inom produktion och underhåll inser snart att det handlar mer om en kulturförändring och ändrat beteende än om teknik. Teknik
I denna och följande krönikor kommer jag att beskriva de steg en organisation bör ta för att framgångsrikt åstadkomma en bestående förbättring av driftsäkerheten och
I den här krönikan kommer jag att fortsätta att beskriva en helhetssyn på de element som påverkar en maskinell utrustnings driftsäkerhet och kostnad. Som framgår
At IDCON, we understand the pressure you face trying to build a reliable plant
We provide side-by-side, reliability and maintenance consulting and training designed to keep your equipment running.
For over 45 years, we’ve partnered with hundreds of manufacturing plants around the world to eliminate the costs and the pressure caused by unreliable equipment.
And we’d love to do the same for you.
IDCON © 2023 All rights reserved
Reduce your costs with an effective PM program