Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Leadership in Maintenance Articles
How to get reliability? #1 Partner with operations
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Maintenance Manager, be an expert at your job
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
What’s more important? Cutting maintenance costs or improving your results?
Christer Idhammar
If you are a maintenance manager often times you may have heard “We’ll be cutting your maintenance costs (budget)” but you know if you just cut your costs your reliability and performance will suffer.
Reliability and Maintenance Management: Q&A with Tor Idhammar and the MEETA Asset Management Association
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Building Your Reliability and Maintenance Strategy from Scratch
Owe Forsberg
Imagine you are the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at a new manufacturing facility. The Plant is a major greenfield site with a CapEx budget over
Your Maintenance Debt Dictates Your Maintenance Cost
Torbjörn 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
The Role of Machine Learning in Maintenance: Interview with Eitan Vesely
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
A Planner’s Best Tool: The Importance of a Bill of Materials
Christer Idhammar
Attention Planners! Christer wants you to know how much using a Bill of Materials can help you in your planning process. Check out this video
5 Steps to make your Gemba walks successful
Christer Idhammar
Many Reliability and Maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustainable (and continuously improving) results in improved safety, manufacturing throughput, and costs. There are many reasons
Reliability or Cost? Prevent Disasters Through a Partnership System
Christer Idhammar
Reliability is a term that has become more commonly used in the industry. Many organizations are using this word to describe their predictive maintenance department.
What Reliability and Maintenance Managers Need to Do
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Walking the Plant Floor – What to Look For
Christer Idhammar
In Part I of his Gemba Walk Series, Christer will walk you through what to look for when walking the plant floor. Cleanliness Safety And
Your Maintenance Cost is Too High!
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Happy Islands, the Illusion of Being Good: Why Overall Equipment Efficiency is not a Good Measurement
Christer Idhammar
Overall Equipment Effectiveness isn’t an effective measurement in my opinion. Since the mid 1970s I have been preaching the importance of a partnership between operations
Reliability Engineer: What’s My Job?
Christer Idhammar
Are you a Reliability Engineer trying to find your place in your team?The role is important but many organizations aren’t using REs effectively. In this
Sustainable Reliability through Leadership
Christer Idhammar
Christer Idhammar finishes up his 4-part series of Maintenance and Reliability beliefs. To be successful in developing and implementing a reliability and maintenance you have
Reliability and Maintenance: What’s the right thing to do in my organization?
Christer Idhammar
Have you asked yourself “What’s the right thing to do in my organization?” In this video, Christer talks about the wrong things that many organizations
