Article9 min read Mar 7, 2025Values in Maintenance and Reliability = RESULTS - Part 1Following clear values of reliability and maintenance is crucial for success in your plant or mill.
Article9 min read Jan 29, 2024Want to be Successful? Implement Systems and Seize OpportunitiesHow do you move from being a reactive to a proactive organization in maintenance and reliability?
Article8 min read Nov 27, 2023Making Maintenance and Reliability a Strategic ObjectiveHow do we make reliability and maintenance a strategy instead of a tactical reaction to what is happening?
Article3 min read Nov 21, 2023Practical 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.
Article2 min read Oct 9, 2023Practical Maintenance Planning TipsCheck out these quick maintenance planning tips covering Planner roles, quality work orders, and field job scoping from Leslie Skelly, Senior Consultant with IDCON INC.
Article5 min read Sep 7, 20233 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.Â
Article3 min read Jul 18, 2023Operations Maintenance Coordinator: A Beneficial RoleOperations Maintenance Coordinators (OMCs) serve as critical bridge roles between operations and maintenance teams, enabling plant managers and operations leaders to achieve three times more effective resource utilization compared to reactive maintenance approaches. By filtering work orders, prioritizing maintenance requests, and coordinating shutdown planning, OMCs establish the 2-4 week lead times essential for safe, high-quality job execution. This strategic coordination role reduces costly unplanned downtime while improving maintenance planning compliance, making it invaluable for mid-career professionals seeking to demonstrate measurable ROI improvements in plant reliability and operational efficiency.
Article1 min read Jun 19, 2023IDCON 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.
Article1 min read Apr 18, 2023Keeping it Simple - Some Principles of Successful Reliability and Maintenance ManagementJoin reliability and maintenance expert Christer Idhammar for an essential 30-minute webinar on April 20th exploring advanced maintenance management strategies. This second installment in the Keeping it Simple series reveals why understanding root causes drives operational excellence and shares proven methodologies for managing complex maintenance processes. Mid-career operations managers and R&D leads will gain actionable insights into maintenance optimization, process improvement, and leadership approaches that deliver measurable ROI. Perfect for professionals seeking to elevate their technical expertise while building credible presentations for executive stakeholders and advancing their operational management capabilities.
Article1 min read Mar 2, 2023How to Document Cost-Effective Maintenance Tasks Part 4: Criticality AnalysisPart 4 of this series will cover how to decide what PMs we should document first, and typically we do a criticality analysis. As we like to say at IDCON: Keep it simple. It is best to keep the criticality analysis as simple as possible. As with any type of criticality analysis, the formula is Risk x Consequence. The “risk” represents the probability of the failure or breakdown occurring, and the “consequence” could refer to safety, environmental, high cost, lost production, etc.
