When to Train Your Team for Success
Torbjörn Idhammar
Effective maintenance management requires continuous learning and adaptation to new techniques and technologies.
Reliability and Maintenance
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from the knowledge leaders of IDCON
Leadership in Maintenance
Maintenance Management: The Key to Optimizing Performance
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is Maintenance Management? Maintenance management is the overarching process of planning, organizing, executing, and controlling the preventive and corrective maintenance of an organization’s physical
Defining Production Downtime
Christer Idhammar
In manufacturing the term “production downtime” is often met with a sense of urgency and concern. It represents periods when production halts, directly impacting a
Industrial Maintenance
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is Industrial Maintenance? Industrial maintenance is a comprehensive process crucial to the reliable operation of various industrial plants, mines, and mills. It extends beyond
Organizing a Maintenance Department
Torbjörn Idhammar
Organizing a Maintenance Department Are you trying to figure your role in your company or attempting to improve the effectiveness of your organization? Or maybe
How to Reduce Maintenance Cost The Right Way
Torbjörn Idhammar
How to reduce maintenance cost the right way comes up a lot for our clients. Unfortunately, many organizations often have the goal of reducing maintenance
Work Management / Planning & Scheduling
Planning and Scheduling Mistakes to Avoid
Owe Forsberg
If you don’t know by now, the maintenance planning and scheduling process is integral to reliability in industrial and facilities management. Over my 30 years
Small Jobs in Maintenance – Top Tips
Greg Mecomber
There’s a certain category of maintenance jobs known as “small jobs” which meet four criteria. This type of job is managed instead of planned and as such they do not need to go through the formal planning process.
6 Phases of Shutdown and Turnaround Management
Owe Forsberg
Shutdown/Turnarounds aren’t managed well. Late start-ups make it impossible to complete work on time. Different departments having disparate objectives makes it impossible to work as a team.
What’s The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling?
Torbjörn Idhammar
We cover a lot of ground in this article. Below is the table of contents to help you navigate. What is maintenance planning and scheduling?
Risk Based Work Selection for Shutdown or Turnarounds – an effective method
Owe Forsberg
Owe Forsberg introduces you to Risk Based Work Selection for shutdown or turnarounds in part 2 of this six part video series. This shutdown technique
Operations’ Role in Shutdown Scheduling
Owe Forsberg
From operations point of view, they want to produce. But in order to produce you have to have your equipment running at peak performance and
Preventive Maintenance
How to Implement Autonomous Maintenance
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is Autonomous Maintenance? The term Autonomous Maintenance is most known as one of the eight pillars in TPM – Total Productive Maintenance. The main
Preventive Maintenance Examples – Execution is Crucial
Torbjörn Idhammar
Preventive Maintenance examples of why you can’t just document a PM program, you have to execute the program. Is it just me who thinks that
What is Meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance and is it Right for You?
John Sewell
What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? What is meant by Reliability Centered Maintenance? Reliability Centered Maintenance or RCM an in-depth asset analysis tool used
Comprehensive Preventive Maintenance to Maintain, Keep and Preserve equipment
Terry Taylor
Recently, I saw a sign in a plant that read – “MAINTENANCE – TO MAINTAIN, KEEP, PRESERVE, PROTECT” may be simple but it is the
Who Does this Maintenance Task?
Michael Lippig
You have some maintenance tasks to complete and you may be considering who can do it? In this video from our Develop and Manage PM
Root Cause
Training root cause analysis
Torbjörn Idhammar
Enhance your team’s analytical skills The ability to dissect and address the foundational causes of problems is not just an advantage; it’s a necessity. At
Practical Root Cause Examples
Torbjörn Idhammar
Root Cause Analysis Examples In the realm of maintenance and reliability, understanding the root cause of problems is pivotal. At IDCON, we’ve mastered the art
What is Root Cause Analysis?
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is Root Cause Analysis? Defining a problem can be simple or it can become very complicated depending on what process you follow. We believe
Techniques for Root Cause Analysis – Broken Parts
Torbjörn Idhammar
Part III of our Root Cause Analysis series “Common RCFA Mistakes” Techniques for root cause analysis include avoiding common mistakes. In Parts I and II
RCFA Problem Statements, Avoid These Mistakes!
Torbjörn Idhammar
RCFA problem statements are key to solving the right problem at your plant but sometimes the problem statement that we write down isn’t a fact.
How Do I Write a Problem Statement? Common RCFA Mistakes: Part I
Torbjörn Idhammar
It is easy to make mistakes when performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – we have all done it. Common RCFA mistakes includes overwriting
Technical / Equipment
What to add to the CMMS? The answer may surprise you.
Michael Lippig
As a planner using a CMMS system, are you confused about what to add to the system as you are planning work? Are there times
You’re Doing it Wrong! Checking Bearings
Owe Forsberg
Checking bearings to detect early signs of failure is an excellent way extend the life of equipment, but don’t do it wrong! You need to
Unusual Condition Monitoring Tools
Christer Idhammar
When you are performing condition monitoring tasks, don’t just rely on expensive condition monitoring tools, some unusual and simple tools can be used. Here’s a
MINExpo – Features Videos and Interviews with Vendors at the Show
Torbjörn Idhammar
Enjoy this quick recap from our time at this year’s MINExpo 2021 in Las Vegas. This video features interviews and presentations from LOKRING, COGEP, Lanfranco,
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
Infrared Thermography – not just for Electrical Switchgear
Torbjörn Idhammar
Infrared (IR) thermography has become an essential tool in many Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Programs. In spite of becoming more user-friendly and affordable, there is a
Materials Management
What is Parts Kitting and Staging?
Leslie Skelly
What is Parts Kitting and Staging? Parts kitting and staging are two important processes in manufacturing that contribute to reducing equipment downtime and improving maintenance
7 Steps to Improve Bill of Materials
John Sewell
The Bill of Materials is a complete and accurate list of parts for each asset. Having correct BOMs is a key element of the technical database.
Kitting and Staging of Parts – Practical advice
Tom Oden
Kitting and staging of parts is a supporting character in overall maintenance efficiency. Tom Odden, with IDCON Scandinavia is giving you practical advice to improve
Preventive Maintenance for Spare Parts
Torbjörn Idhammar
Let IDCON President and CEO Tor Idhammar walk you through why it is important to have good PMs for Spare Parts.
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
Dispelling the Myth about Obsolete Spare Parts
Torbjörn Idhammar
When is a spare part obsolete? There are a few myths surrounding obsolete spare parts:
Swedish Articles
Varför misslyckas många förbättringsinitiativ inom underhåll?
Christer Idhammar
Svar på fråga Kritikalitet av utrustning har inget med inspektionsintervall att göra. Det är felutvecklingstiden som bestämmer hur ofta en komponent bör inspekteras. Om kostnaden
Skador och planerat underhåll
Christer Idhammar
Jag har länge påstått att det finns ett starkt förhållande mellan skador och planerade underhållsarbeten likaväl som det finns ett starkt förhållande mellan planerat och
i en organization som jobbar i ett partnerskap
Christer Idhammar
Jag har skrivit mycket om att arbeta i ett partnerskap i stället för att arbeta i ett kund och leverantörförhållande mellan drift och underhåll. Jag
Kulturförändring
Christer Idhammar
Alla som medverkat i förbättringsinitiativ inom produktion och underhåll inser snart att det handlar mer om en kulturförändring och ändrat beteende än om teknik. Teknik
Implementeringsmodell för bättre Driftsäkerhet och lägre underhållskostnader I
Christer Idhammar
I denna och följande krönikor kommer jag att beskriva de steg en organisation bör ta för att framgångsrikt åstadkomma en bestående förbättring av driftsäkerheten och
Helhetssyn på Utrustningsdriftsäkerhet. Del 3.
Christer Idhammar
I den här krönikan kommer jag att fortsätta att beskriva en helhetssyn på de element som påverkar en maskinell utrustnings driftsäkerhet och kostnad. Som framgår
KEEP THINGS RUNNING
At IDCON, we understand the pressure you face trying to build a reliable plant
We provide side-by-side, reliability and maintenance consulting and training designed to keep your equipment running.
For over 45 years, we’ve partnered with hundreds of manufacturing plants around the world to eliminate the costs and the pressure caused by unreliable equipment.
And we’d love to do the same for you.
