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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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Why a Joint Reward System Drives Results and Teamwork

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Christer Idhammar

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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What is Reliability worth in Dollars? $

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Torbjörn Idhammar

What is reliability worth in dollars to your plant? Do you know? If not, it is a good idea to figure out how much a 1% increase or decrease in reliability is worth. Here is a couple of ideas on how to do so. Reliability is most interesting to measure on current production bottlenecks. For

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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 Management for Supervisors

Leadership in Maintenance Articles / Torbjörn Idhammar

All maintenance management processes you implement in your plant come down to a change at the frontline (hourly and first line of management) at some point. Nothing improves until your maintenance management improvement projects hit the frontline. Maintenance Management for Supervisors is a vital part of your plant reliability. For example, if you are focusing

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Digital Cameras

Technical / Equipment / Torbjörn Idhammar

Digital cameras, with the addition of simple notes, are a very powerful planning tool and can save hours of work. Here are a couple of examples: Here the message to the tradesperson is clear, and it took just seconds. The text and arrows are added using the “Drawing” tool bar, in MS Word. In the

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A Helpful Guide for Using CMMS Codes in Maintenance

Work Management / Planning and Scheduling / Don Armstrong

This article provides guidelines on the selection and structure of the codes and categories that CMMS Software work order systems use to filter and sort backlogs of work. When many organizations first introduced a computer software (CMMS) to manage maintenance they saw an opportunity to use the computer’s ability to sort and filter work in

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Industrial Preventive Maintenance (PM)

Preventive Maintenance / Torbjörn Idhammar

Improving an industrial preventive maintenance process can be a daunting task. Existing PM processes have often developed continuously over many years. The current preventive maintenance process may therefore be hard to organize and analyze. Where does one start to improving an existing PM process? The PM tasks are often divided by department in any given

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Spare Parts Management Indicators

Materials Management Articles / Torbjörn Idhammar

There is a saying: “What you can’t measure, you can’t improve”. The saying are not necessarily always true, but it is interesting, because I think a derivative of the saying is true: “What you measure, is usually what you get.” Reducing Inventory Value It is common for plants to have a lot of focus on

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