Reliability and Maintenance

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 ...

by Owe Forsberg, Vice President IDCON, Inc. – helping mills to become world class maintenance organizations. Here’s a real-life root cause analysis (RCA) for you to think about. A trailer was repaired after the side was scraped. The bolts that held the cross members to the aluminum frame on the side were replaced.  The trailer passed the DOT inspection. One ...

TOR IDHAMMAR Trying to benchmark maintenance cost is a very common practice among many plants or companies. The maintenance cost/ton or maintenance cost/unit is usually considered the most important benchmark. However, only focusing on the maintenance cost/unit benchmarking is not useful. Why not? First, comparing maintenance cost between plants is very difficult because of variables such as the organization’s definition ...

Keeping things simple when you implement maintenance processes is the foundation for successful execution on the plant floor.

...how do you capture the institutional knowledge of more experienced personnel, quickly recruit and train new people, and keep performance at a high level?

SKF outlines practical guidance for how to build the roadmap for Maintenance 4.0 and the future plant, all while minimizing investment and operational risks.

Is the whole industry about to change and put us all at the risk of losing our jobs?

This article is Part 4 of a 4-part series. In our last issue, Christer explained “Beliefs 10-13” of his maintenance strategy in depth. This time, we’ll take an overview of the final two in a set of 15 beliefs developed from his time spent in various reliability and maintenance positions over the span of six decades throughout 52 countries.

Article written by Christer Idhammar, Founder, IDCON INCI believe that most training efforts are wasted unless the training is focused on the training needs of each individual. After going through training, a person should immediately apply the new skills. As the saying goes, “If you do not use it, you lose it.”There are many examples where the above has not ...

In our last issue, Christer explained “Beliefs 1-9” of his maintenance strategy in depth. This time, we’ll take an overview of the next four in a set of 15 Beliefs developed from his time spent in various reliability and maintenance positions over the span of six decades throughout 52 countries. The final two Beliefs will be covered in the May/June issue.