Three Ways to Reduce Maintenance Cost
Torbjörn Idhammar, CEO & President, IDCON INC
Transcribed from the video “Three ways to reduce maintenance cost”
So, if you’ve had this discussion, which you will have at some point in your career, and if you haven’t heard it a hundred times already, you need to reduce maintenance costs. Have this discussion – how do we do this? What happens in most places is that maintenance cost X this year, last year it was X minus 5%. Why do we do that? Well, this year we have this big rebuilding of boilers…
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