Some plants buy a high-powered microscope in order to do failure analysis. While this sometimes is necessary, it could be good to consider other options
The fundamentals of an effective electrical preventive maintenance program is to reduce the potential for a serious electrical interruption.
What Maintenance Method would you choose for the 4 components below?
Picture 1: Offset, or Parallel – the shafts are parallel to each other, but are not co-planar, or in the same plane. This can be both vertical
Any plant maintenance department wants to be known as a cost effective organization. For the purposes of this article, “Cost Effective” will be defined as:
One of the most common questions I am asked, especially from those that are new to maintenance, is, ”How do I know that we are
Manufacturing facilities know downtime is money. Every hour you are offline for a shutdown (SD) is costly from both lost revenue and cost of the
I interviewed a mine operations manager in Newcastle, Australia, who said, “I have no idea what work orders or reliability improvements have been finished in
Imagine you work in a mill as a mechanic and get a work order that states: Replace bearings on a press roll due to high
Does rapid change of maintenance performance exist? If change is equivalent to sustainable improvements the answer to this question is “No”. My experience has shown
One of the exercises in IDCON’s Work Management Planning and Scheduling Training is to assign the right priority for jobs. Read the following scenarios and
A successful partnership between operations and maintenance is rooted in unified work processes. IDCON defines work processes as something documented, executed and followed up on.
Companies tend to minimize the impact of basic cleanliness on equipment / components. Maintenance usually emphasize in condition monitoring programs such as vibration, temperature (motors,
Management’s responsibility is to develop a process that the organization can follow in their daily job to execute or perform their work. Here are 4
The skilled millwright and pump specialist has experienced multiple breakdowns with a centrifugal pump. The pump has been rebuilt multiple times but it keeps breaking
If you want to improve production reliability in one or more facilities, it is important to have a clear picture of the goal(s). At first
I was seventeen years old when I joined the Swedish Merchant Marines as an apprentice in the engine room of M/T Sven Salen, a 40,000
We all know that in a reactive maintenance organization 60 – 70 % of crafts people’s time is wasted on finding out what to do,
Reactive maintenance is here defined as all maintenance work that was scheduled less than 20 hours before it was executed.
The purpose of this articles is to raise questions and challenge plant leadership on strategy, vision and execution of plant reliability and overall maintenance management.
IDCON © 2020 All rights reserved
DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX