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
It is easy to make mistakes when performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – we have all done it. Common RCFA mistakes includes overwriting
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
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
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
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
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…
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? We like to say that a good Maintenance Supervisor will work themselves out of their own job. The
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
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
Recently, I saw a sign in a plant that read – “MAINTENANCE – TO MAINTAIN, KEEP, PRESERVE, PROTECT” may be simple but it is the
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
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
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
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
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
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
Have you found yourself at the beginning of a job wondering what needs to be recorded in the CMMS and what doesn’t? IDCON Senior Consultant
Maintenance planning work order packages should include pictures and diagrams for clear instructions. The result of planning is a work order package, it’s the job
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