IDCON’s latest series will detail the correct way to document cost-effective maintenance tasks. The first thing to do is go back to the basics. Part 1 will cover the background and theory of how to achieve the correct tasks and documenting Preventive Maintenance tasks.
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Common Mistakes in Root Cause Failure Analysis
Two common mistakes in RCFA and how to avoid them.
Read More »Fixing Just One Link Doesn’t Strengthen a Chain
Planning is an extremely important link in the maintenance chain: "Inspect—prioritize—plan—schedule—execute."
Read More »Reach the Perfect Temperature with Regular Heating System Maintenance
CLARK CONLEY Green liquor heaters make the slaking process run better in kraft mill applications. However, green liquor is very demanding on the heater. Annual inspection and maintenance of your heating systems ensure that your green liquor stays at the optimum temperature. Exact temperature management in the kraft mill process is critical for conversion efficiency in recausticizing green liquor ...
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Leveraging reliability improvements to reduce overall risk.
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IR Inspections of Electric Motors
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Part 1: The Link Between Personnel Safety and Equipment Reliability
Read More »How China Came to Dominate Market for Lithium Batteries
China's share of the battery market has increased dramatically, from 60 percent in 2018 to 72 percent in 2020.
Read More »It Turned into Nothing
The product of maintenance work should not be service. It is not repair and it is not cost. The outcome of maintenance work is equipment reliability.
Read More »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 conference, we met several Reliability Engineers telling us they found their job different from what they expected it to be. Many of them had graduated as reliability engineers and had learned all about Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), Mean Time ...
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