Reliability and Maintenance

Practical Maintenance Planning Tips, Cont.

Practical Maintenance Planning Tips

Learn about protecting your planners so they can plan, basic elements of a standard job plan, and how to develop good job plans with these Practical Maintenance Planning Tips from IDCON Senior Consultant Leslie Skelly.

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Practical Maintenance Planning Tips

Check out these quick maintenance planning tips covering Planner roles, quality work orders, and field job scoping from Leslie Skelly, Senior Consultant with IDCON INC.

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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 this process Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE). We find that this term more accurately defines the desired outcome of the process. 

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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 press roll due to high vibration level. You complete the work and the damaged bearings and seals were replaced according to the plan. The machine was started up and is now producing paper again.

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