Managing Maintenance
Torbjörn Idhammar
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea. The same though
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Reliability Management: Change
Torbjörn Idhammar
If you are a reliability professional or reliability management, you may sometimes wonder why it is so hard to improve equipment reliability. At first glance
Philosophy: Maintenance work
Torbjörn Idhammar
There is a strong correlation between maintenance work carried out as an emergency job versus carried out as a planned and scheduled job.
Philosophy: Inspection Interval
Torbjörn Idhammar
When we work in plants and get involved in discussions of what the right inspection interval (condition monitoring) is for different equipment, we run into
Technique: Benchmarking
Torbjörn Idhammar
When it comes to benchmarking, a popular measurement is maintenance cost (MC) as a percent of Estimated Replacement Value (ERV). The data from our SIMATM
