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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 good job plans with these Practical Maintenance Planning Tips from IDCON Senior Consultant Leslie Skelly.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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 with the plant management team.
Read More »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.
Read More »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 Gemba walks to the actual place to observe, learn and improve work.
Read More »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.
Read More »How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 9: Preventive Maintenance Example
Catch up with Tor's latest installment in the series "How to Document Cost-Effective Preventive Maintenance" here.
Read More »Selecting the Right Preventive Maintenance Tasks
When it comes to existing PMs, the first thought is usually to search in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Of course, this is a valuable resource, but we may be missing other activity happening in departments of the plant, mill, or mine. It is very common that different crafts/departments have set up their own Preventive Maintenance Systems for components and equipment.
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