How to Calculate the Backlog and Manage Your Resources
Owe Forsberg
Are you finding it difficult to manage your maintenance and reliability resources? Do you feel like you cannot catch up on the work order backlog?
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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
Do We Need Maintenance Planners?
Christer Idhammar
In this video, Christer Idhammar answers the question for. Someone is always planning a job whether you have the role of planner or not. But
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
Where are the parts that I need?
Owe Forsberg
Are you sure that the parts you need will be in the storeroom when you need them? Materials and Spare parts management is an opportunity
Root Cause and Thinking – Part 2 What tools to use?
Torbjörn Idhammar
What tools are effective for Root Cause Failure Analysis or RCFA? What tools are effective when you’re conducting a root cause investigation? In this second
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
Root Cause + Thinking, the Best Way to Solve Problems: Video 1
Torbjörn Idhammar
Root cause confusion There is a lot of confusion between diagram, tools, software and company names for root cause. This video series, featuring Torbjorn Idhammar,
Short Story: The Truth about Kimberly the Hydraulic Unit’s health
Torbjörn Idhammar
By: Kim Hydraulic a.k.a. Torbjörn Idhammar, IDCON – a Reliability and Maintenance Management Consulting firm Hello, My name is Kimberly, but you can call me
The Strategic Role of the Reliability Engineer
Owe Forsberg
We asked members of the operations team in process manufacturing: What is the strategic role of the Reliability Engineer (RE)? The answers vary from a
Leading in Maintenance: People cannot be more productive than the system they work in allows them to be
Christer Idhammar
Christer Idhammar, reliability and maintenance management guru, discusses two more key beliefs. People cannot be more productive than the system they work in allows them
Does Operations Know Their Role?
Torbjörn Idhammar
We know that we need the support of operations in order to reach top-notch reliability in our plants. But does your operations manager know exactly
Maintenance Language Everyone Can Understand
Michael Lippig
Developing a common language at your plant for reliability and maintenance is important for eliminating confusion and misinterpretation. The maintenance world has so many acronyms it
Reliability and Maintenance Management: Part I, Belief I
Christer Idhammar
Beliefs are very important for an organization. Join Christer in this new video series that details how beliefs connect to improved reliability and maintenance.
Should Maintenance Report to Operations?
Torbjörn Idhammar
What happens when Maintenance is required to report to Operations? This usually happens when organizations go from a centralized to decentralized maintenance. While many tout
How to Facilitate Planning and Scheduling Meetings
Owe Forsberg
A key element of an effective Work Management System is to hold weekly planning and scheduling meetings to confirm the the next week’s schedule, what
Maintenance Supervisors and the Balancing Act
Owe Forsberg
In today’s maintenance organization the supervisor is one of the most important positions. The skill of “balancer” is essential to her/his success. The need to
A Driving Lesson for Operations and Maintenance
Christer Idhammar
Picture this. The operations and maintenance manager, plant manager and production manager from a plant are in a car speeding down the road. The maintenance
What Can Be the Impact of Dissimilar Metal Corrosion?
Owe Forsberg
A trailer was repaired after scraping the side a few years ago. The bolts that hold the cross members to the aluminum frame on the
Which PMs Should Operations Do?
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
