In manufacturing the term “production downtime” is often met with a sense of urgency and concern. It represents periods when production halts, directly impacting a company’s operational efficiency and profitability. These interruptions can range from equipment failures to systemic operational lags, each contributing significantly to reduced efficiency and lost production time. Downtime can be scheduled […]
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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 dives into how Roman aqueduct maintenance management is relevant today and how the chain of maintenance processes need to stay intact. So, what exactly is the chain of effective maintenance
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What is asset management? How’s it different from maintenance management? First, I think you have to further define asset management as “physical asset management” because there are a lot of things that are assets that can be managed. Most people think in terms of finances when the words asset management is used. You need to
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Are you a reliability engineer? Or maybe your plant manager or HR manager trying to figure out exactly what a reliability engineer’s job description should be. Christer Idhammar gives you the key responsibilities of this key position in your organization. The role of reliability engineer The role of reliability engineer includes evaluating equipment failure modes
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What is the know-do gap The Key to success is to bridge the know-do gap. What does that mean, well in my 60 years of working with organizations around the world, I’ve seen them fail to do the most important step in making real change – getting from knowing what to do and actually doing
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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 preventive maintenance example from my early days in maintenance management consulting. The bearing was not hot, but it the sound was getting worse during the last month. The maintenance manager
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If you are a maintenance manager often times you may have heard “We’ll be cutting your maintenance costs (budget)” but you know if you just cut your costs your reliability and performance will suffer.
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In this video, Christer Idhammar deep dives into how managing your equipment assets is dependent on preventive and corrective measures. With examples of calculations and specific techniques that can help you manage your maintenance more effectively with the right outcomes of improving production and equipment reliability.
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Attention Planners! Christer wants you to know how much using a Bill of Materials can help you in your planning process. Check out this video for examples of how beneficial Bills of Materials are to organizations and what can happen when they are overlooked.
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Many Reliability and Maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustainable (and continuously improving) results in improved safety, manufacturing throughput, and costs. There are many reasons for this, but the lack of engaged, visible, and caring plant leadership is the most common of them. Doing regular Gemba walks, which takes management to the front lines to
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Reliability is a term that has become more commonly used in the industry. Many organizations are using this word to describe their predictive maintenance department. To me, reliability has always encompassed the measurement of manufacturing efficiency and includes operations, maintenance, engineering and spare parts/stores as the major players. Together these departments shall deliver manufacturing, or
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In Part I of his Gemba Walk Series, Christer will walk you through what to look for when walking the plant floor. Cleanliness Safety And more Keep an eye out for the next installment! Want more information about how to manage Reliability and Maintenance? Read these articles: Why 90% of all Training is Wasted The
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Since the mid 1970s I have been preaching the importance of a partnership between Operations and Maintenance. I see it as Operations + Maintenance = Production. You could include also stores and engineering in this concept. A true working partnership between Operations and Maintenance is one of the most important elements I have seen in
Are you a Reliability Engineer trying to find your place in your team?The role is important but many organizations aren’t using REs effectively. In this video, Christer Idhammar discusses what REs should be doing and what you can do if they aren’t focused on their role. Want to learn even more? Read the article “The
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In this video, Christer Idhammar answers the question for. Someone is always planning a job whether you have the role of planner or not. But the best organizations have the role of “maintenance planner.” Planners should be protected from disruptions and be focused on planning future work. Wondering about other best practices for planning work
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Christer Idhammar finishes up his 4-part series of Maintenance and Reliability beliefs. To be successful in developing and implementing a reliability and maintenance you have to have the right people leading it. If not, the initiative will fail.
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Have you asked yourself “What’s the right thing to do in my organization?” In this video, Christer talks about the wrong things that many organizations are doing and how to change them to improve reliability and maintenance performance. The right people are an organization’s most vital asset. I see this statement quite often, “People are
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Christer Idhammar, reliability and maintenance management guru, discusses two more key beliefs. People cannot be more productive than the system they work in allows them to be. For example, you may have a maintenance team with precision skills but in a reactive environment. If so, these skills are often wasted because there is no time
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