A reliable plant needs a cohesive maintenance strategy. This strategy should include the operations team actively participating in the care and basic inspections of the
To have reliable production, you need reliable partnerships. This means Operations, Maintenance and Engineering working together towards the common goal. So, the question is…what does
I am all for new technology. In the late 1970s I introduced and taught technologies such as SPM and Acoustic Emission, Wear Particle Analyses with
Your Maintenance Cost is too High! The Coronavirus is spreading around the world as I’m writing this article, and many companies’ finances are shaken to
If you measure reliability by department, electrical, mechanical, process control etc. you may each have a reliability of 97-99%, and everybody is very happy on
I recently visited a plant in South America for an assessment. They had done some really good things in the plant over the past 2-3
Sometimes I think about the fact that many companies pay a lot of money for leadership and teamwork simulations…how come we sometimes have a hard time getting things done efficiently on the floor in the maintenance industry when we’re paid so well?
There are many reasons why many reliability and maintenance management improvement initiatives do not generate the return of investment they can deliver. From my 58
I’ll summarize these two reasons for you and then give you more details. – Lack of long-term consistent leadership – Focus on the tools that
In Part 1 of this series on maintenance leadership, I explored two points:
During a recent reliability and maintenance conference, we met several new Reliability Engineers telling us they found their job different from what they expected it
For a competitive advantage, an organization must have a basic development for a Reliability and Maintenance Strategy. Following the best Reliability and Maintenance strategies maximizes
Root cause analysis and root cause failure analysis are commonly used terms. I have always felt that these terms are somewhat misguided. Here’s why I
This can be a pretty loaded beginning to a sentence. From role definitions to reliability definitions, your organization has a lot of definitions to figure
You can develop, document, and preach your improvement plans as much as you want, but if those plans do not result in better front line
In poorly performing mills it is typical that production, maintenance and engineering organizations work in silos without much cooperation. The traditional view in these mills
Before we discuss current maintenance management best practices, we must first discuss comparing maintenance cost with ERV You have been told you that your maintenance
Excellent leadership maintenance management is essential for lasting results of any improvement initiative that an organization undertakes, including the improvement of Reliability and Maintenance performance.
A potential client asked if IDCON could do a productivity study of the hourly maintenance staff at a mill. My initial reaction was “WHY?” and
With IDCON’s Shutdown Optimization Program, shutdown (SD) best practices are reviewed to safely reduce shutdown duration and costs. Here are some best practices for you
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