What is Reliability worth in Dollars? $
Torbjörn Idhammar
What is reliability worth in dollars to your plant? Do you know? If not, it is a good idea to figure out how much a
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Maintenance Managers – Do you have a clear path forward?
Torbjörn Idhammar
I recently visited a couple of plants where I asked the same question to all people I met. The question was “What are the most
Long-lasting change in maintenance?
Torbjörn Idhammar
Sustainable improvements to the maintenance function can be achieved the same way as any other successful change in an organization. For change to be successful,
Setting Maintenance Priorities
Torbjörn Idhammar
Perhaps you, or one of your management team, feel that a better way of setting maintenance work priorities is needed. This usually happens because it
Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Torbjörn Idhammar
It is often said that “what gets measured gets done”. And getting things done, through people, is what management is all about. Measuring things that
Defining Your Plant’s Maintenance Costs | Maintenance Cost Definitions
Torbjörn Idhammar
One universal measurement of maintenance performance, and perhaps the measure that matters most in the end, is actually maintenance costs. Unfortunately, maintenance costs are often
Using corrective maintenance work plans to improve plant reliability
Torbjörn Idhammar
Corrective maintenance is defined as maintenance work which involves the repair or replacement of components which have failed or broken down. Preventive maintenance is generally
Maintenance Management for Supervisors
Torbjörn Idhammar
All maintenance management processes you implement in your plant come down to a change at the frontline (hourly and first line of management) at some
Managing Maintenance and the magic wand
Torbjörn Idhammar
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea. The same thought
Reliability Management: Change
Torbjörn Idhammar
If you are a reliability professional or reliability management, you may sometimes wonder why it is so hard to improve equipment reliability. At first glance
Philosophy: Maintenance work
Torbjörn Idhammar
There is a strong correlation between maintenance work carried out as an emergency job versus carried out as a planned and scheduled job. Per IDCON’s
Philosophy: Inspection Interval
Torbjörn Idhammar
When we work in plants and get involved in discussions of what the right inspection interval (condition monitoring) is for different equipment, we run into
Technique: Benchmarking
Torbjörn Idhammar
When it comes to benchmarking, a popular measurement is maintenance cost (MC) as a percent of Estimated Replacement Value (ERV). The data from our SIMATM
