What is Reliability Consulting and how can my organization benefit? The word reliability is used from your cell phone network to your car, but what does it mean for industrial organizations?
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Effective maintenance management requires continuous learning and adaptation to new techniques and technologies.
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What is Maintenance Management? Maintenance management is the overarching process of planning, organizing, executing, and controlling the preventive and corrective maintenance of an organization’s physical assets. It involves effectively managing the maintenance of equipment, machinery, buildings, and other tangible assets to maximize their availability, reliability, and lifespan. An effective maintenance strategy is critical for many
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Enhance your team’s analytical skills The ability to dissect and address the foundational causes of problems is not just an advantage; it’s a necessity. At IDCON, our root cause analysis course is designed to equip your team with the practical skills needed for effective problem elimination. Whether through onsite customized training or public courses at IDCON’s headquarters,
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What is Industrial Maintenance? Industrial maintenance is a comprehensive process crucial to the reliable operation of various industrial plants, mines, and mills. It extends beyond simple repairs, involving a systematic approach to condition monitoring, fixed time maintenance, and corrective maintenance approaches for industrial equipment. The primary goal is to ensure that the assets operate safely,
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Root Cause Analysis Examples In the realm of maintenance and reliability, understanding the root cause of problems is pivotal. At IDCON, we’ve mastered the art of dissecting complex issues, offering you a glimpse into our proven methods through real-life root cause analysis examples. This journey will not only enlighten but also empower you to take control of
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What is Root Cause Analysis? Defining a problem can be simple or it can become very complicated depending on what process you follow. We believe it is important to keep the root cause analysis simple for the frontline (planners, supervisors and hourly). So, what is root cause analysis? Root cause analysis, commonly referred to as
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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 you need to improve the job descriptions (or maybe you want to prove to your boss you’re working on the wrong tasks.) Key Roles and Responsibilities Let’s look at the
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What is Autonomous Maintenance? The term Autonomous Maintenance is most known as one of the eight pillars in TPM – Total Productive Maintenance. The main idea in Autonomous Maintenance is that operators are responsible for performing minor maintenance tasks. You may also have heard of terms such as Operator Essential Care, Operator Based Maintenance, Operator
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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 improvement projects have gotten more complicated than necessary? I mean to a point where implementation becomes impossible, projects fizzle out completely, sometimes after thousands of work hours have been put
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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 of this series , we covered the problem statement and common mistakes when writing a problem statement. In Part III, we’re going to talk about saving parts and organizing information.
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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? 1 The definition of daily and weekly planning and scheduling 2 What is Shutdown planning and scheduling? 2 What is the difference between maintenance planning and scheduling? 2 Detailed definition
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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. We pick something that’s not quite true. It’s a little bit off, and that makes our root cause very long. Sometimes we miss the root cause altogether because it’s wrong.
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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 cost. While the maintenance cost is an important long-term outcome of maintenance management, it should not be the main goal. If the reduction of maintenance cost is the main goal
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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 article, Torbjorn Idhammar is going to detail the pros of hiring an objective expert to conduct your maintenance assessment. Watch video 1 of this 2-part series Imagine you are walking
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It is easy to make mistakes when performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – we have all done it. Common RCFA mistakes includes overwriting the problem statement. An essay is not the way. We tend to want to write everything that happened and everything we know. This makes it very confusing for the people
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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 walking the floor of your plant, gathering information for a maintenance assessment. You ask the front line, “Hey, are jobs being planned before scheduling?” The answer will most likely be
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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…
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If your organization wants to achieve world class maintenance, one good tool to use is regular Maintenance Assessments. They will help you decide what improvements need to be made and develop an action plan to implement and track those improvements over time. Why do a Maintenance Assessment? It is important to perform these assessments not
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Should Every Organization have a Maintenance Supervisor? We like to say that a good Maintenance Supervisor will work themselves out of their own job. The idea is to have the crew trained so well that they can really make it on their own, but, turnover happens, new people come in, and the Supervisor needs to
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