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Lean Maintenance in Manufacturing: How to Go From Good to Great

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Christer Idhammar

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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First World Class Maintenance Organization

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Christer Idhammar

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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The Cost of Doing Nothing

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Michael Lippig

The cost of maintaining the status quo is enormous. The status quo affects each and every one of us every hour of every day, at work and at home. We have come to accept doing nothing as a safe and acceptable alternative. We even make it the default solution. Doing nothing is the management equivalent

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Useful Reliability and Maintenance Definitions

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Torbjörn Idhammar

Dictionary for Reliability and Maintenance We’d complied a list of useful reliability and maintenance definitions. It seems that maintenance terms are evolving, new terms are being created all the time, but of course, they are just new names for maintenance terms still in existence. The definition of Maintenance is the act of maintaining, the state

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Reliability Maintenance Basics: If you execute well you will get guaranteed results

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Christer Idhammar

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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The Key to Success after Maintenance Training Seminars

Preventive Maintenance / Torbjörn Idhammar

Maintenance Training is most successful when followed by practical experience. This prevents money from being wasted on maintenance courses and seminars that workers quickly forget. Companies can spend thousands of dollars on maintenance training, but often, very little of the knowledge gained on maintenance and reliability training courses is ever used in the plant. In

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Maintenance Scheduling – A Hot Potato?

Work Management / Planning and Scheduling / Torbjörn Idhammar

Improving equipment reliability often comes down to improving basic work systems such as planning and maintenance scheduling, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, technical database, and stores. Preventive Maintenance and maintenance planning are often easy sells in plants because they are not very threatening to people and they make sense to do. Root cause is harder

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What is RCFA or root cause failure analysis?

Root Cause / Torbjörn Idhammar

RCFA is the process of investigating failure of a product, process, equipment and using the information to implement a change. It’s also commonly referred to as Root Cause Analysis or RCA. IDCON is convinced that the process of analyzing the root cause of failures and acting to eliminate these causes is one of the most

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Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Torbjörn Idhammar

It is often said that “what gets measured gets done”. And getting things done, through people, is what management is all about. Measuring things that get done and the results of this effort is an essential part of successful management, but too much emphasis on measurements, or the wrong measurements may not be in your

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Definition: Break-in jobs

Work Management / Planning and Scheduling / Torbjörn Idhammar

Break-in jobs is a term used for identifying maintenance jobs that are added to a schedule without proper lead time allowed for planning and scheduling.

Break-in Jobs are often incorrectly identified as a synonym to break downs, or true emergency work. In our experience, break-in jobs are often NOT true emergencies, instead they are often EMOTIONAL emergencies.

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Lean Maintenance in Manufacturing: How to Go From Good to Great

First World Class Maintenance Organization

The Cost of Doing Nothing

Useful Reliability and Maintenance Definitions

Reliability Maintenance Basics: If you execute well you will get guaranteed results

The Key to Success after Maintenance Training Seminars

Maintenance Scheduling – A Hot Potato?

What is RCFA or root cause failure analysis?

Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Definition: Break-in jobs

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