Specific Tactics of Electrical Preventive Maintenance Inspection
Torbjörn Idhammar
The fundamentals of an effective electrical preventive maintenance program is to reduce the potential for a serious electrical interruption.
Preventive Maintenance
Do You Listen to Your Equipment When it Speaks to You?
Torbjörn Idhammar & Michael Lippig
Do you listen to your equipment? Do you hear motors complaining about overload? Do you see your pump packings crying a flood? Do you hear
Guidelines for Frequency of Preventive Maintenance Inspections
Torbjörn Idhammar
What guidelines would you give for the frequency of preventive maintenance inspections? This is a question I often get so I like to offer some
How Contamination and Dirt Cause Equipment Failures
Greg Gustafson
When conducting Root Cause Problem Elimination reviews at plants, IDCON has found that one of the most frequent causes of equipment failures (and unplanned downtime)
Integrating a Smart RCM Approach to Optimizing your PM Program
Owe Forsberg
Every plant or facility desires to have a documented PM program in place- one that is followed with discipline. Doing so provides the lowest overall
Carbon Brushes for DC Motors and Generators
Terry Taylor
Carbon brush grades are usually classified according to the manufacturing processes and the types of carbons, graphites, and other ingredients used. The 4 main brush
Can you really Justify Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)?
Christer Idhammar
As a result of this column I am risking to receive critique, but also to be given feed back expressing relief from readers who believe
Revitalizing a Paper mill Preventive Maintenance Program
Clayton Smith & George Munn
Paper mill preventive maintenance achievements. The Smurfit-Stone paperboard mill at Fernandina Beach, Florida, finds opportunities to increase mill productivity and reduce costs by improving its
Maintaining a Strong Performance in the Mill
Torbjörn Idhammar
High investment costs mean that it is the interests of paper makers to look after their equipment. After all, prevention is better than cure.
At Fletcher Challenge Canada’s Crofton, B.C., Pulp Mill, A Preventive Maintenance Program Stressing Teamwork Helps Avoid Breakdowns
Don Armstrong and Howard Turner
The pulp and paper industry in Western Canada is in a period of unprecedented change. Against a background of poor markets, rising costs, aging plants,
CMMS and Preventive Maintenance (part 3)
Christer Idhammar
In the previous two articles, I discussed methods for developing a good preventive maintenance (PM) and condition monitoring program. In this column, I further comment
CMMS and Preventive Maintenance (part 2)
Christer Idhammar
In the first part of this series of columns on Preventive Maintenance (PM) I talked about the necessity of having a good route based function
CMMS and Cost Effective Preventive Maintenance
Christer Idhammar
A very important part of a cost-effective preventive maintenance program is what I call the route-based activity. These are activities that are easiest to do,
Preventive Maintenance Examples: Checking Best Practices & How Your Plant Measures Up
Torbjörn Idhammar
Here are preventive maintenance examples of best practices and the questions you need to ask to determine if your plant is using them. Visiting plants
Smurfit-Stone Pursues Profitable Path with Fernandina Maintenance Program
Clayton Smith & George Munn
Making money, not tons, has become the mantra of the pulp and paper industry in recent years. Consolidation moves in the sector have resulted in
Preventive Maintenance Essential Care and Condition Monitoring Definitions
Torbjörn Idhammar
Preventive Maintenance Essential Care and Condition Monitoring (PM/ECCM) Definitions Preventive Maintenance is essential care and fixed time maintenance together. Both essential care and fixed time maintenance
Preventive Maintenance Optimization
Christer Idhammar
For decades, many “experts” have used the graph in Figure 1 to discuss the optimum level of maintenance. This Figure is based on an old-fashioned,
How to Optimize Preventive Maintenance
Christer Idhammar
To truly optimize preventive maintenance, you will benefit greatly from professional training in smart look-, listen-, smell-, and touch-type inspections; inspection frequencies; and methodology to decide whether a PM task is valid or not.
How do you decide the inspection frequency for condition monitoring?
Torbjörn Idhammar
Question: How do you decide the inspection frequency for condition monitoring?Maintenance Supervisor, International Paper Answer: The inspection frequency is based on the Failure Developing Period
How do you decide the Failure Developing Period?
Torbjörn Idhammar
Question: “OK, so how do you decide the Failure Developing Period?” (FDP)– Maintenance Supervisor, International Paper Answer: It comes down to an educated guess unless
