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Pulp and paper mills must reduce dependency on OEMS by using technology to optimize maintenance planning and retain technical knowledge.
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How do we make reliability and maintenance a strategy instead of a tactical reaction to what is happening?
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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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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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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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Cutting the maintenance budget will be easier if you have a plan that is well thought through and a partnership with the plant management team.
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