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You just completed a comprehensive assessment for your organization. What's next? Now it's time to create an action plan for improvement! 📊 Setting a measurable vision and revisiting it annually is key to success. 💡📈

Why do a Maintenance Assessment? There's 1 good reason. - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Why do a maintenance assessment? It's simple, if you want to know the gaps between how well your maintenance is managed versus how well you could be doing, it's the vehicle to knowing.

Let's shift focus to what really matters - assessing the maintenance and reliability processes, not the people. The key question is "what to assess?" Remember, it's all about evaluating the efficiency of our plant operations. 🔍

Why do a Maintenance Assessment? There's 1 good reason. - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Why do a maintenance assessment? It's simple, if you want to know the gaps between how well your maintenance is managed versus how well you could be doing, it's the vehicle to knowing.

🛠 A Maintenance Assessment pinpoints areas for improvement and creates a strategic action plan. 📊 Don't just focus on the score, focus on growth and development! 🔧📈

Why do a Maintenance Assessment? There's 1 good reason. - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Why do a maintenance assessment? It's simple, if you want to know the gaps between how well your maintenance is managed versus how well you could be doing, it's the vehicle to knowing.

Alignment of an individual's goals with the organization's objectives 🎯 is crucial for ensuring synergy between reliability, maintenance, and business goals. Research has shown that teams with aligned goals are more productive and successful. Therefore, it is imperative to establish clear connections between personal objectives and overall company targets to drive performance and efficiency.

Maintenance Manager's key roles to success - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training What is a maintenance manager's key roles for an organization? In this second video of a three part "What's My Job" video series, you'll learn what a maintenance manager should be doing!

🔧👷‍♂️ Calling all aspiring Maintenance Managers! 🚀 Want to know the key skills and tasks needed to lead your team towards success? Let's discuss strategies to keep your team on track and focused on goals. Share your tips below! 💡

Maintenance Manager's key roles to success - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training What is a maintenance manager's key roles for an organization? In this second video of a three part "What's My Job" video series, you'll learn what a maintenance manager should be doing!

Maintenance managers are essential for ensuring maintenance operations run smoothly. Key skills include leadership, communication, problem-solving, and technical expertise. They must prioritize tasks, allocate resources effectively, and coordinate with stakeholders to achieve maintenance goals. By setting clear objectives, monitoring progress, and providing support, managers can keep teams focused on delivering results. Need to become a more efficient maintenance manager? or want to learn how to manage maintenance - take our next Managing Maintenance Workshop Sept 10 - 11 in Portland OR
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Maintenance Manager's key roles to success - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training What is a maintenance manager's key roles for an organization? In this second video of a three part "What's My Job" video series, you'll learn what a maintenance manager should be doing!

Here's an example from a South American tissue plant: They had done some really good things in the plant over the past 2-3 years, but they had not been able to achieve stable reliability performance of their production lines. The plant was hovering around the high 70s [%] for their Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).
The business consultant they had been working with had coached them on focusing on “low hanging fruit” 🍎 and “quick results” in order to get quick financial impacts. But they were stagnant because they weren't focused on long-term results. https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/leadership-in-maintenance/maintenance-results-focus/

Long-Term Reliability or Short Term Results: Where Should Reliability and Maintenance Managers Focus their Efforts? - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Reliability and maintenance managers can struggle with a daily focus. Should we focus on long term reliability or short-term results? This video is the guide you need.

We always encourage quick wins to motivate a maintenance team but we emphasize to our clients that in parallel to the quick fixes is the systemization of a basic work processes. Without prevention of failures through, for example, lubrication, operating practices, alignment, precision installation, etc. and Work Management through Inspection – Planning – Scheduling – Ex*****on you're quick fixes won't get you much further.
https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/leadership-in-maintenance/maintenance-results-focus/

Long-Term Reliability or Short Term Results: Where Should Reliability and Maintenance Managers Focus their Efforts? - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Reliability and maintenance managers can struggle with a daily focus. Should we focus on long term reliability or short-term results? This video is the guide you need.

How long will you wait to improve work management? - https://mailchi.mp/idcon/is-your-team-missing-critical-inspections-4937141 Don't let another quarter pass with chaos and dysfunction. Get your team trained in the best work management practices.

Is measuring maintenance schedule compliance the right KPI?
If your organization is very reactive, for example over 30% of all daily work not planned and scheduled the day before, it can be a waste of time to measure schedule compliance because you know it is poor. Instead, measure what causes the break in work and then take action to eliminate those causes. https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/work-management-planning-scheduling/philosophy-planning-scheduling-difference/

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

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What are some maintenance scheduling 🗓 basics?
Best practice is to communicate the next day schedule to tradespeople at end of each day. Worst practice is to post work orders and then tradespeople select what work to do. A scheduler needs to be able to think logically through variety to complex situations to build a schedule that provides maximum value to the organization. Get training in best practices on May 21- 22, sign up today!

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

Is your workload out of control? - https://mailchi.mp/idcon/is-your-team-missing-critical-inspections-4937133 Stop the stress and dysfunction at your site by improving maintenance planning and scheduling.

How is maintenance work found ❓ In most organizations, there are 3 ways that maintenance work is typically found. 1.Resulting from basic Preventive Maintenance inspections and Predictive Maintenance and Essential Care. 2. Observations by anyone in the plant/mine Identifying failures and work needed when doing corrective maintenance work 3. When doing non maintenance work activities.
Is your team struggling with your maintenance workload or reactive maintenance? Get training in planning and scheduling May 21 - 22 contact us to sign up!
https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/work-management-planning-scheduling/philosophy-planning-scheduling-difference/

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

Who should be creating the work schedule for planned maintenance work? Inc believe the front-line supervisor is the natural role that should prepare the schedule as they know the team best. However, if the maintenance supervisor is too busy responding to reactive work, they will not be able to complete and publish the schedules at the optimal time. If that's the case, we suggest another person be assigned the scheduler role.
https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/work-management-planning-scheduling/philosophy-planning-scheduling-difference/

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

❓Who should be reviewing maintenance work requests (notifications) and why?
An Operations Maintenance Coordinator or Maintenance Supervisor should review the work request (notifications). Why? When someone reviews maintenance work requests, they can ensure the right priority has been used and that the request isn't a duplicated. They should confirm and adjust the work priority if it doesn’t match the priority guidelines established and agreed upon by operations and maintenance.
https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/work-management-planning-scheduling/philosophy-planning-scheduling-difference/

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

We’ve assessed hundreds of organizations and overwhelmingly the process of work management planning and scheduling is an improvement opportunity. The average planning and scheduling score is 35 out of 100, that’s a lot of opportunity for improvement! Want an assessment of your planning and scheduling performance? Contact us online to schedule a call.
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What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

What's the purpose of maintenance planning and scheduling? The main purpose is to reduce downtime, maximize productivity while ensuring that tradespeople and contractors are always working on the right things, doing them the right way, and at the right time. Another purpose is to coordinate core maintenance activities and processes with all the stakeholders involved.
https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/work-management-planning-scheduling/philosophy-planning-scheduling-difference/

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

The simple fact is that every maintenance job is planned by someone because at some point in any maintenance job, someone must decide exactly what will be done and how to do it. Unfortunately, we’ve seen all too often it’s the tradesperson who does this because work was scheduled but not planned ⌚️ . This is an ineffective way to perform maintenance work, even in an emergency.

What's The Difference Between Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? - IDCON Maintenance planning and scheduling are two key elements of the total “Maintenance Work Management Process”.  The planning and scheduling maintenance

https://mailchi.mp/idcon/band-aid-fixes-and-best-guesses-are-costing-youStart solving problems effectively

Are you finding equipment problems early enough? - https://mailchi.mp/idcon/are-you-effectively-managing-your-shutdownsoutages-4937114

Standardizing Spare Parts naming is challenging due to inconsistent descriptions from manufacturers, leading to confusion. Varying part templates in CMMS & ERP systems complicate matters. Experts recommend a comprehensive system with clear naming guidelines, collaboration with manufacturers, and user-friendly software for smoother operations. https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/materials-management/spare-parts-description-naming-convention/

Spare Parts Naming Convention Spare Parts Naming Convention can be a challenge, from system limitations to users who may not be consistent in naming parts.

Your maintenance team cannot locate the right part if the key information does not exist. This is why having defined naming conventions is needed. The amount of qualifiers in a naming convention is dictated by the length of the Description field in your CMMS or ERP software 💻 . Usually, you can add additional information in the long description field or purchase text. However, this information seldom appears in reports or in screens (unless triggered).

Spare Parts Naming Convention Spare Parts Naming Convention can be a challenge, from system limitations to users who may not be consistent in naming parts.

Get tips and techniques to improve your Master Data and spare parts management with our Materials and Spare Parts Management training February 19 -20. Register online at

Upcoming Maintenance Training Events - IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Consulting and Training Maintenance Training for your entire maintenance and reliability staff. IDCON's public training teaches best practices either in person or via Zoom.

In our opinion, spare parts should be fully described with a complete, concise description that will lead the maintenance planner or technician to select the correct part from a printed or electronic catalogue. In addition, the description should preclude misinterpretation by the supplier of what is being purchased. Search engines built into the different systems improves locating a spare part.
Learn more strategies for Spare parts Management February 19-20 Raleigh. Registration link in the comments
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