Is your mill stranded on an Happy Island of Reliability

by Christer Idhammar, IDCON INC Founder, Reliability and Maintenance Guru and author. IDCON is a Reliability and Maintenance Management Consulting firm helping mills improve overall productivity through better work processes.

If you measure reliability by department, electrical, mechanical, process control etc. You may each have a reliability of 97-99%, and everybody is very happy on their island. But if you add all departments together, you may get a very different picture. #maintenancemanagement #reliability #engineering #maintenance Measuring reliability by department is often misleading with regards to results, but it also often destroy the partnership between departments.

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