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Reliability and Maintenance
Equipment Doesn’t Break Down, Components Do!
What is a component? IDCON uses the word “component” to describe an item that is highly repetitive for preventive maintenance…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 5: Equipment List
So, we have completed our Criticality Analysis. What’s next? In Part 5 of this series, we will cover the importance of…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 4: Criticality Analysis
Part 4 of this series will cover how to decide what PMs we should document first, and typically we do…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 3: Process for Documenting Preventive Maintenance Tasks
Part 3 in this series focuses on Preventive Maintenance documentation processes. In order to document a cost-effective preventive maintenance system, there…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 2: The Productivity Circle
Part 2 in this series covers how Preventive Maintenance fits into the overall Reliability and Maintenance cycle. Figure 1 shows…
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How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 1: Preventive Maintenance Definition
IDCON’s latest series will detail the correct way to document cost-effective maintenance tasks. The first thing to do is go…
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Reliability Engineers – what is their role at your mill?
by Christer Idhammar, Founder IDCON, Inc. – helping mills become world class maintenance organizations During a recent reliability and maintenance…
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Dissimilar Metal Corrosion – what’s the impact?
by Owe Forsberg, Vice President IDCON, Inc. – helping mills to become world class maintenance organizations. Here’s a real-life root…
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90% of all Training is Wasted
Article written by Christer Idhammar, Founder, IDCON INCI believe that most training efforts are wasted unless the training is focused…
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Driving lesson for reliability
If you’ve been in the industry since the late 80s or early 90s, you may be familiar with the image…
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