To put it simply, the main responsibility of a Maintenance Supervisor is to ensure that maintenance work is executed. But what are the essential skill set required of this position? What is their role in work execution, reliability and maintenance and maintenance planning and scheduling? To perform this job well, a good Maintenance Supervisor must […]
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Operations needs to be involved in root cause investigations Operations and root cause investigations should go hand-in-hand. This is In part 2 of this video series, Tor Idhammar and Owe Forsberg discuss a very important part of the partnership that may be missing in your plant business process – Root Cause Problem Elimination or root
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Having business process workflows improves cooperation, morale and cohesion in an organization.
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What’s my job? a Maintenance Manager’s job is much more than you think. If you are a new Maintenance Manager, want to become one, or maybe you are an experienced Maintenance Manager who needs to refresh your skills, this is the video series you are going to want to bookmark! Watch Part 1 and Part
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Improving work management is key to overall reliability But it’s difficult to improve because ultimately it’s about changing behavior in the workplace. 90% about making improvement to your reliability and maintenance management processes is the people in the organization. If they are resistant to changing behavior then you cannot gain the big rewards of improved
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What is an Operations Maintenance Coordinator? An Operations Maintenance Coordinator job can be defined as “a person who is responsible for the coordination of operations and maintenance activities or the one point of contact between operations and maintenance. In this YouTube Video, Tor Idhammar and Owe Forsberg discuss why this role is smart to have
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Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success are revealed in the second video of this three video series. Watch Part 1 and Part 3 Poor leadership is a morale and reliability & maintenance management killer and we need our maintenance managers to be effective. What are the skills and tasks that maintenance managers need to have/do
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As a maintenance organization, you want to provide the reliable performance of equipment to ensure production is reliable. We believe that production reliability is a partnership between maintenance, operations and engineering. How to get reliability? Partner with operations But what exactly does operations need to do to support maintenance in order for reliability? First, operations
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Maintenance manager, be an expert that your job? What do you need to specifically do to not only manage your team but the maintenance processes at your plant, mill or mine. This three part video series will give you the answers you need to succeed. What does a Maintenance Manager need to be an expert?
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Why do you need to know how to estimate maintenance work orders? There are key reasons why estimating work orders is important to the effective management of maintenance. What costs should be included when estimating work orders? What are the steps to estimating? The 1st pass on estimating is a rough order magnitude estimate of
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Effective Work Management is essential to managing a maintenance team. Common work management questions are typically about the roles within the organization and tools to use. Tor idhammar, IDCON’s president is answering your work management questions after his seminar “Who’s missing in your work management process…the answer may surprise you.” What exactly is an Operations
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What’s Best for Communicating a Weekly Schedule for Maintenance Work? When you put a lot of effort into a good weekly schedule for your weekly maintenance work, but people still do not know when to do the work, it’s easy to get frustrated. This video will give you some quick best practices to help you
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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, and Nord-lock. Visit their websites linked below: Lokring TechnologyCOGEP J.Lancfranco Nord Lock’s Superbolt Comment on what you want to learn about next or other SMART products we’ve found that help
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Let IDCON President and CEO Tor Idhammar walk you through why it is important to have good PMs for Spare Parts.
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Your reliability and maintenance management questions answered in this Q&A information session presented by MEETA Asset Management Association of Ireland, featuring IDCON President and CEO Tor Idhammar.
Most maintenance managers feel the pressure of lowering maintenance costs and at the same time improving reliability. As you know, annual maintenance costs have a strong correlation to how well basic work processes such as planning, scheduling, and preventive maintenance are executed in our mills, mines and factories. But, another factor that heavily influences maintenance
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Tor Idhammar interviews Eitan Vesely, director of artificial intelligence at SKF about what Artificial Intelligence means for Machine Learning in Maintenance Management. Is your organization really prepared to add Machine learning as a tool? You’ll learn what you will need to become prepared and some of the most common ways machine learning is being used
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Are your managers trained in Management of Reliability and Maintenance? In this video, Tor Idhammar, IDCON’s President and CEO, explains why it is imperative that managers have proper Reliability and Maintenance management training and gives his advice on how to organize it.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is still creating casualties around the globe and many companies’ finances are shaken to their core. If you manage maintenance, you are probably feeling constantly under pressure to lower costs. Sometimes you may even be ordered to lower maintenance costs with X % and that within a certain time frame. This is
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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 video of the series “Root Cause and Thinking”, Tor Idhammar discusses the common tools and how they should be used in the process of Root Cause Problem Elimination. Did you
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