Reliability and Maintenance
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Making Maintenance and Reliability a Strategic Objective
How do we make reliability and maintenance a strategy instead of a tactical reaction to what is happening?
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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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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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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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Facing the Pressures of Cutting the Maintenance Budget
Cutting the maintenance budget will be easier if you have a plan that is well thought through and a partnership…
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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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R&M Tip: Determining Maximum Operating Temperature for MotorsR&M Tip:
Accurately determining maximum operating temperature for motors is critical for setting temperature limits.
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Operations Maintenance Coordinator: A Beneficial Role
TORBJÖRN IDHAMMAR, IDCON INC. Why do we need an Operations Maintenance Coordinator? Maintaining a good Reliability and Maintenance program requires…
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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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