Life Cycle Cost is important, but we must understand before we can evaluate. Many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives are successful, but most do not deliver the results that are possible to reach. I have observed that the rate of success is higher in many other countries than USA. Some common denominators I have observed […]
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One of the reasons many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustaining results is lack of teamwork between and within departments. It is still common that operations and maintenance do not work as the team they should be. The engineering department is sometimes described as “the black hole” by the maintenance staff. “This
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“People are our most valuable resource” is most probably the correct political statement to make, but is this true? I do not think it is not true and in this article I will explain why I think so. In his book “Good to great” Jim Collins talks about having the right people on the bus
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Lean manufacturing including lean maintenance in manufacturing has long been a concept both in the United States and in Europe. Lean Maintenance in Manufacturing & Delivery of Raw Material Manufacturing Reliability Partnership between Operations – Maintenance – Engineering Elimination of root cause of the problem Storage Integration and application of increased knowledge and skills Over
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What is a World-Class Maintenance? And what plant was the first world-class maintenance organization? Since 1972 I have been bench marking maintenance organizations all over the world. In 1992 IDCON structured a very formal way to do evaluations and benchmarking of maintenance organizations. The structure includes about 285 Current Best Practices elements. Each element is
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Developing and Retaining Future Craft Skills is often mentioned that this is a future crisis; my observations tell me that the crisis is here now and it will be worse in the future. Here are some facts from a recent survey: 9% of respondents say they can easily find skilled crafts people 65% say they
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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 av bilden behandlade jag de blå rutorna från upphandling, förråd till renovering, förebyggande av problem, inspektera, prioritera, planera och schemalägga i föregående krönikor. Här fortsätter jag med att behandla fler
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First I like to tell you about myself and from what perspective I write this article. My world is process industries such as Iron, Steel, Pulp, Power and Wood based industries such as Oriented Strand Board (OSB), medium Density Fiber (MDF), Chemical, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage etc. In short all industries where a
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One of the reasons many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustaining results is lack of team work between and within departments. It is still common that operations and maintenance do not work as the team they should be. The engineering department is sometimes described as “the black hole” by the maintenance staff.
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