Maintenance Management
5 Rules to Build a Partnership
5 Rules to Build a Partnership Torbjörn Idhammar, President & CEO IDCON INC. Plant professionals (and consultants) often talk about the importance of a maintenance,
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Battle of the Work Types: Key Maintenance Terms
Battle of the Work Types: Key Maintenance Terms Robert Brieck, DPSI Terminology used by maintenance departments produce a wealth of information when performing an Internet search.
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Fostering Asset Reliability from the Floor Level
Fostering Asset Reliability from the Floor Level Paul Durko, Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC. Conventional road maps and training indicate more than 70 percent of reliability
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Build your Reliability and Maintenance Strategy
Build your Reliability and Maintenance Strategy Owe Forsberg, Vice President IDCON INC. Imagine you are the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at a new manufacturing facility.
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How to Use Mechanical Integrity Inspections
For many organizations, these inspections are something they have to do to meet regulations. And, that’s important – those regulations are there to help provide a workplace that is safe for workers, the environment and the surrounding community. But, some companies are able to leverage those inspections to gain new insights into their operations and build additional efficiencies.
Equipment Knowledge
Maintenance Apps for Smartphones
Nowadays most everyone has a powerful computer in their pocket, their phone. Many of us are using them in maintaining our plants. Whether you are neutral or a devotee of the iPhone or Android devices, I think it’s safe to say we have only just scratched the surface of possibilities for using our smartphones to maintain our plants. Just think about how good it is to always have a great camera in your pocket with pictures viewable instantly. Does anybody remember the hassle of film? Waiting days to find out if an image was captured and how well it looked.
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Equipment Inspections: Who is Doing Them?
Equipment inspections is key to keeping your production running but many plants don’t tap into all the resources available. IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Management Consultant, Michael Lippig has a simple decision chart that will help you decide what tasks can be done by what roles.
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Can Your Mill Produce the Right Results?
This is a summary of a part of a presentation by Christer Idhammar, president of IDCON, INC. Raleigh NC, during the 15th annual Pulp & Paper Reliability and Maintenance Conference and Exhibit in Atlanta 5-8 November 2001.
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The New Industrial Culture: Journeys Toward Collaboration
The competitiveness of the U.S. economy depends on changes inside firms, particularly their willingness to take risks in reshaping four key relationships. Competitiveness, it turns out, depends on new kinds of collaboration.
