Maintenance Management
5 rules to build a partnership
by Torbjorn Idhammar, President IDCON INC Plant professionals (and consultants) often talk about the importance of a maintenance, operations, and engineering partnership. In my experience,
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Building a Reliability and Maintenance Strategy – from Scratch
by Owe Forsberg, Vice President IDCON Inc a Reliability and Maintenance Management consulting firm Imagine you are the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at a new
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Maintenance Work Orders in the Age of Industrial Internet of Things
For decades, maintenance managers relied on paper based work orders. From late 90’s Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) or Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM) automated
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Battle of the Work Types
Terminology used by maintenance departments produce a wealth of information when performing an Internet search. World-class maintenance status, cost benefits of preventive maintenance vs. corrective maintenance,
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Fostering Asset Reliability from the Floor Level
Conventional road maps and training indicate more than 70 percent of reliability initiatives fail because the programs supporting them lack backing by senior leadership. However,
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Build your Reliability and Maintenance Strategy
by Owe Forsberg, Vice President IDCON Inc a Reliability and Maintenance Management consulting firm Imagine you are the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at a new
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How to Use Mechanical Integrity Inspections
Are you getting all the benefits you can from mechanical integrity inspections? For many organizations, these inspections are something they have to do to meet
Smartphone Apps for Maintenance
by Michael Lippig, Senior Consultant Nowadays most everyone has a powerful computer in their pocket, their phone. Many of us are using them in maintaining
Who’s doing equipment inspections?
Preventive Maintenance strategy Equipment inspections is key to keeping your production running but many plants don’t tap into all the resources available. IDCON Reliability and
Can Your Mill Produce the Right Results?
by Christer Idhammar This is a summary of a part of a presentation by Christer Idhammar, president of IDCON, INC. Raleigh NC, during the 15th
