A potential client asked if IDCON could do a productivity study of the hourly maintenance staff. My initial reaction was “WHY?” and I am sure my facial expression was probably one of disbelief. But quickly, my manners and professionalism caught up with me and I posed the same question again, this time with a more […]
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IDCON’s Shutdown Turnaround Optimization Process reviews the best practices to safely reduce shutdown duration and costs. The process reviews the 6 distinct phases of shutdowns or turnarounds at plants of any type. This process can be applied to both annual shutdown/ turnarounds and outage down days. The six phases of the Shutdown Turnaround Optimization Process
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Christer Idhammar is a world renowned and awarded Reliability and Maintenance Consultant and Guru. He is the founder and executive vice president with IDCON, INC in Raleigh NC, USA; A reliability and maintenance training and consulting company to Industry worldwide since 1972.
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An effective Preventive Maintenance program should result in better equipment and production quality. Let’s look at the tasks you need to develop and manage your preventive maintenance program through the eyes of a new Reliability Engineer. This RE works in a plant that currently lacks documented procedures. Want to learn more about what a Reliability
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Our storeroom and spare parts organization are usually the area with more opportunities regarding reliability operation. What does good look like? What elements are needed? How can we change our stores towards these best practices? Several elements are taken in consideration: Master Data Storeroom Organization Storeroom Operation Inventory Control Quality Program PM program Reports, KPI’s
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Test your knowledge of maintenance methods. How is a cost effective maintenance process established to so that the process generates more money than it costs? The answer is to choose the most cost effective maintenance method for all components. There are maintenance methods for existing components: If you don’t know these concepts, you should purchase
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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: “Maintenance without waste, where waste is defined as the gap between how good the organization is and how good it can become”. The waste includes poor safety, losses in quality
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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 right-sized within our maintenance organization?”
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What guidelines would you give for the frequency of preventive maintenance inspections? This is a question I often get so I like to offer some guidelines from the real world. The short answer to this question is that you have to use your experience and common sense supported by a logic decision structure. For you
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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 workforce employed to maintain the facility. That’s why you must optimize shutdown programs.
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