When to Train Your Team for Success
Torbjörn Idhammar
Effective maintenance management requires continuous learning and adaptation to new techniques and technologies.
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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
Internal resource or maintenance management expert for your assessment?
Torbjörn Idhammar
A maintenance management expert is one option when you decide to perform a reliability and maintenance assessment of your maintenance organization. In this video and
The Chain of Effective Maintenance Management
Christer Idhammar
The chain of effective maintenance management is key to improving your This video is from Christer Idhammar’s Keynote presentation at Mainstream Conference in 2021. He
Continuous Improvement of a maintenance organization
Torbjörn Idhammar
Continuous improvement is hard to get to if you don’t know where to start. Gathering the right data about your maintenance team Imagine you are
Discover Your True Potential through Reliability and Maintenance Assessments
Torbjörn Idhammar
Leading maintenance in a plant/mine/mill takes a lot of effort. Emergency work comes in a steady stream, some are breakdowns, other work is just “honey-do-jobs.” The workforce needs to be managed, the budget must be met, and equipment reliability must be maintained and hopefully even improved…
Why do a Maintenance Assessment? There’s 1 good reason.
Torbjörn Idhammar
If your organization wants to achieve world class maintenance, one good tool to use is regular Maintenance Assessments. They will help you decide what improvements
Should Every Organization have a Maintenance Supervisor?
Torbjörn Idhammar
Should Every Organization have a Maintenance Supervisor? We like to say that a good Maintenance Supervisor will work themselves out of their own job. The
What is asset management?
Christer Idhammar
What is asset management? How’s it different from maintenance management? First, I think you have to further define asset management as “physical asset management” because
Role of Reliability Engineer at your organization
Christer Idhammar
Are you a reliability engineer? Or maybe your plant manager or HR manager trying to figure out exactly what a reliability engineer’s job description should
The Key to Success: Know-Do Gap Examples
Christer Idhammar
What is the know-do gap The Key to success is to bridge the know-do gap. What does that mean, well in my 60 years of
The Essential Skills of Maintenance Supervisors
Torbjörn Idhammar
To put it simply, the main responsibility of a Maintenance Supervisor is to ensure that maintenance work is executed. But what are the essential skill
Operations and root cause investigations is a safe bet for solving problems
Torbjörn Idhammar
Operations needs to be involved in root cause investigations Operations and root cause investigations should go hand-in-hand. This is In part 2 of this video
What’s My Job? Maintenance Manager, what is takes to succeed Part 3
Torbjörn Idhammar
What’s my job? a Maintenance Manager’s job is much more than you think. If you are a new Maintenance Manager, want to become one, or
Operations Maintenance Coordinator – a superb role to include
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is an Operations Maintenance Coordinator? An Operations Maintenance Coordinator job can be defined as “a person who is responsible for the coordination of operations
Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success
Torbjörn Idhammar
Maintenance Manager’s key roles to success are revealed in the second video of this three video series. Watch Part 1 and Part 3 Poor leadership
