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
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
Asset Management – Prevention and Inspection
Christer Idhammar
In this video, Christer Idhammar deep dives into how managing your equipment assets is dependent on preventive and corrective measures. With examples of calculations and
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.
Preventive Maintenance: Start with the Basics
Owe Forsberg
IDCON VP and Preventive Maintenance expert, Owe Forsberg, lays out the basics of Preventive Maintenance and explains (with examples from the field) why it is
Short Story: The Truth about Kimberly the Hydraulic Unit’s health
Torbjörn Idhammar
By: Kim Hydraulic a.k.a. Torbjörn Idhammar, IDCON – a Reliability and Maintenance Management Consulting firm Hello, My name is Kimberly, but you can call me
Know Why to Inspect – Evaluating Your Preventive Maintenance Inspections
Christer Idhammar
Does your team know why they’re doing preventive maintenance inspections? When your team knows why they are doing even the simplest task, this can instantly
Could your Preventive Maintenance (PM) program use a tune-up?
Terry Taylor
We commonly work with clients with a high amount of “Reactive” maintenance. In the worst-case scenarios, this translates into unscheduled downtime and lost production. The
Pre-Operational Checklists Reinvented: Data Driven Reliability in Mining
Dale R. Ekmark
Pre-operational checklists are not “new”, “sexy” or exciting. What they are is the leading foundation of a safe, highly efficient, reliable and cost-effective mining operation!
How to preserve the life of bearings
Owe Forsberg
A bearing has a random life due to a complex set of factors that determine the life of a bearing. SKF confirms that bearing life
Detect problems early by training your operator in basic inspection techniques
Torbjörn Idhammar & Michael Lippig
An obvious resource is to use for early detection of problems is training your operator in basic inspection techniques. You may have heard of the
See you in September (Why Your Preventive Maintenance Program Should be Executed Year-round)
Owe Forsberg
Is your Preventive Maintenance Program on a summer break or does your team perform the critical essential care tasks year-round? An effective Preventive Maintenance program must
A Cost Effective Preventive Maintenance Program
Torbjörn Idhammar
Most Preventive Maintenance programs (PM) were set up many years ago. Each department in a plant set up their own program in isolation from each
Good Machine Inspections vs Ticking off a Checklist?
Torbjörn Idhammar
Picture yourself standing in front of a 2011 Chevy Silverado 1500, trying to decide if you’re going to buy it or not. You’ve been thinking
5 Steps to Document Your Preventive Maintenance Program
Owe Forsberg
An effective Preventive Maintenance program should result in better equipment and production quality. Let’s look at the tasks you need to develop and manage your
Is a Condition Monitoring (CM) Technician Worth $2,610.11?
Michael Lippig
I’ve met more than my fair share of “handicapped” CM Techs; “handicapped” with the lack of tools, training and poorly designed systems. As Deming noted
