The Smurfit-Stone paperboard mill at Fernandina Beach, Florida, finds opportunities to increase mill productivity and reduce costs by improving their preventive maintenance program.
High investment costs mean that it is the interests of paper makers to look after their equipment. After all, prevention is better than cure.
The pulp and paper industry in Western Canada is in a period of unprecedented change. Against a background of poor markets, rising costs, aging plants,
A very important part of a cost-effective preventive maintenance program is what I call the route-based activity. These are activities that are easiest to do,
Here are preventive maintenance examples of best practices and the questions you need to ask to determine if your plant is using them. Visiting plants
Making money, not tons, has become the mantra of the pulp and paper industry in recent years. Consolidation moves in the sector have resulted in
Preventive Maintenance Essential Care and Condition Monitoring (PM/ECCM) Definitions Preventive Maintenance is essential care and fixed time maintenance together. Both essential care and fixed time maintenance
For decades, many “experts” have used the graph in Figure 1 to discuss the optimum level of maintenance. This Figure is based on an old-fashioned,
Preventive maintenance (PM) is often set up in a very inefficient way in many mills. It is typical to see that the PM program is
Question: How do you decide the inspection frequency for condition monitoring? Maintenance Supervisor, International Paper Answer: The inspection frequency is based on the Failure Developing
Question: OK, so how do you decide the FDP? Maintenance Supervisor, International Paper Answer: It comes down to an educated guess unless you have very
In the previous three issues of Reliable Plant, my columns touched upon defining best practices in order for leadership to clearly communicate the plant’s direction
This article series explores sample business processes that need to be implemented in order to improve overall plant reliability. In parts one and two, equipment
Implementing predictive maintenance practices can be complicated. Are you experiencing unnecessary equipment repairs that are avoidable and reactive in nature and do you have recurring
This column is likely to create a lot of reactions from the academia of reliability and maintenance management, and all comments are welcome.
This article series discusses sample business processes that must be implemented in order to improve overall plant reliability. This article and the previous one focus
Maintenance Training is most successful when followed by practical experience. This prevents money from being wasted on maintenance courses and seminars that workers quickly forget.
IDCON often gets the question, “What kind of Preventive maintenance should be in place for instrumentation?” from maintenance managers with mechanical background. The exact answer
Reliability Centered maintenance is a step-by-step instructional tool for how to analyze a system’s all failure modes and define how to prevent or find those
Improving an industrial preventive maintenance process can be a daunting task. Existing PM processes have often developed continuously over many years. The current preventive maintenance
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