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Reliability and Maintenance
Practical Maintenance Planning Tips, Cont.
Learn about protecting your planners so they can plan, basic elements of a standard job plan, and how to develop…
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Reliability and Maintenance
Practical Maintenance Planning Tips
Check out these quick maintenance planning tips covering Planner roles, quality work orders, and field job scoping from Leslie Skelly,…
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Reliability and Maintenance
3 Common Mistakes in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
Analyzing and eliminating the root cause of a failure is a powerful tool for improving plant reliability. At IDCON, we call…
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IDCON INC Reliability Tip: How to Use Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) during Corrective Maintenance
Imagine you work in a mill as a mechanic and get a work order that states: Replace bearings on a…
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IDCON Reliability Tip: The Gemba of Reliability and Maintenance Management
"Gemba" is a Japanese word meaning the actual place where value is created, or where actions are executed. It includes…
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IDCON Reliability Tip: What’s That Noise in the Gear Reducer?
A key inspection for gear reducers is to listen for noise. The inspection should focus on a change in the sound.
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Keeping it Simple – Some Principles of Successful Reliability and Maintenance Management
On April 20th at 10:30-11:00 AM (EST) in his second webinar in the “Keeping it Simple” series, Reliability and Maintenance…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 9: Preventive Maintenance Example
Catch up with Tor's latest installment in the series "How to Document Cost-Effective Preventive Maintenance" here.
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Selecting the Right Preventive Maintenance Tasks
When it comes to existing PMs, the first thought is usually to search in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Of…
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Choosing a Maintenance Method
In terms of Maintenance Methods, there are three choices for existing equipment. They are Operate to Breakdown, Fixed Time Maintenance, and Condition…
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