How to Optimize Your Shutdown Programs in 5 steps
Torbjörn Idhammar
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
Leadership in Maintenance Articles
Does Rapid Change of Maintenance Performance Exist?
Christer Idhammar
Does rapid change of maintenance performance exist? If change is equivalent to sustainable improvements the answer to this question is “No”. My experience has shown
Practical Prioritizing for Leadership in Maintenance
Torbjörn Idhammar
A successful partnership between operations and maintenance is rooted in unified work processes. IDCON defines work processes as something documented, executed and followed up on.
4 Steps Plant Managers Can Take Toward Maintenance Improvement
Owe Forsberg
Management’s responsibility is to develop a process that the organization can follow in their daily job to execute or perform their work. Here are 4
How to select your materials when doing corrective maintenance or installing new equipment?
Owe Forsberg
The skilled millwright and pump specialist has experienced multiple breakdowns with a centrifugal pump. The pump has been rebuilt multiple times but it keeps breaking
Practical implementation of production reliability goals
Torbjörn Idhammar
If you want to improve production reliability in one or more facilities, it is important to have a clear picture of the reliability goal(s). At
Highly Effective Maintenance Training is to “Know Why”
Christer Idhammar
Maintenance Training should always include “why” someone is doing a task. I’m going to tell you a story about my early days in maintenance to
How does your maintenance organization use time?
Christer Idhammar
We all know that in a reactive maintenance organization 60 – 70 % of crafts people’s time is wasted on finding out what to do,
Safety and Reactive Maintenance
Christer Idhammar
Reactive maintenance is here defined as all maintenance work that was scheduled less than 20 hours before it was executed. It makes sense that there
Maintenance Management: Defining & Clarifying Plant Reliability
Torbjörn Idhammar
The purpose of this article is to raise questions and challenge plant leadership on strategy, vision and execution of plant reliability and overall maintenance management.
Using Diplomacy and Psychology in Your Maintenance Leadership
Torbjörn Idhammar
In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this column series, I outlined the need for developing maintenance leadership (visit the Reliable Plant Web site at www.reliableplant.com to
Maintenance Roles: The Roles of Execution and Motivation in Effective Maintenance Leadership
Christer Idhammar
In this article, I will explain the roles of execution and motivation in effective maintenance leadership. Bridging the Know-Do Canyon There is a small gap
Reliability and Maintenance Implementation Model – Step II.
Christer Idhammar
This column is the second in a series of articles about the implementation steps you need to take if you want to be successful in
A Reliability and Maintenance Implementation Model
Christer Idhammar
How do you actually implement Reliability and Maintenance in your manufacturing plant? What should you do first? What’s comes next? This article will outline the
What the Emperor’s New Clothes Says to Plant Reliability and Maintenance Professionals
Torbjörn Idhammar
What could an old fairy tale mean for Plant Reliability and Maintenance Professionals? Let us start with a short version of an old story. Once
Operator Driven Reliability — Who Owns Your Mill’s Equipment?
Chris Hykin
By narrowing our focus to the variables that are within our control, most mills have found that improved reliability is a key area of cost
Why 90% of all Training is Wasted
Christer Idhammar
I believe that most training efforts are wasted unless the training is focused on the training needs of each individual. After going through training, a
Visible and Invisible Maintenance Cost Savings
Christer Idhammar
Maintenance cost savings are usually realized with a short-sighted approach instead of long-term. In my earlier column I wrote about the Fox versus the Hedgehog
Reliability Improvements Equal Cost Reduction
Christer Idhammar
In the May column, I discussed results that a mill had experienced in the ten years following implementation of initiatives with a primary focus on
