IDCON Equipment Reliability and Maintenance Management Consultants
IDCON teaches, trains, and supports reliability and maintenance implementation and provides advice for clients in the power industry.
We work to enhance overall production reliability and lower manufacturing and maintenance expenses.
Reliability and maintenance services
IDCON’s reliability and maintenance consulting services include maintenance audits, planning and scheduling, root cause analysis and spare parts management. The company also provides asset management / preventive maintenance, technical data management, and leadership in manufacturing maintenance solutions.
Conventional maintenance consultancy focuses mainly on equipment, but IDCON’s services involve working directly with companies to create continuous levels of awareness and buy-in.
This provides the team with the tools to build the processes and implement action and change that will transform the organisation of your company and garner bottom-line results.
Maintenance audit services for power companies
IDCON has defined current best practices (CBP) in terms of reliability and maintenance management. CBP use around 200 elements to define these best current practices in the manufacturing industry for reliability and maintenance management. The elements are used as a benchmark in the process of a maintenance audit.
The CBP maintenance audit is used by numerous corporations such as Capital Power, Tembec, Union Gas, International Paper, Whirlpool, Kaiser Aluminum, Mondi, Stora Enso, ICL Group, SSAB, and many others.
Maintenance planning and scheduling solutions
In reliability and maintenance management, planning and scheduling is one of the key work processes to enable cost-effective equipment reliability in organisations.
IDCON works with companies to improve and promote efficiency in both planning and scheduling of maintenance work. Support may include in-class and on-the-job training, as well as approach and strategy consultation.
Asset management / preventive maintenance for power applications
Equipment reliability is completely dependent upon asset management (preventive maintenance). It is important for organisations to implement an effective asset management programme to help identify and minimise failures in equipment.
IDCON educates and trains your company to set up and document a cost-effective preventive maintenance process. We will also help you learn constructive techniques for inspections and other asset management tasks. Two services that are in high demand from our clients are our customised equipment component training and inspection techniques for operators. Our preventive maintenance training is customised for each client in order to be most effective.
Asset management implementation
IDCON has employed several hundred preventive maintenance solutions in the power industry.
Best results have been achieved where we have trained and coached our client’s employees to implement the asset management optimisation and systems. This method is more cost-effective and results are more sustainable because of the ownership we help embed in the client’s manufacturing organisation.
IDCON’s solutions implement all the preventive maintenance basics, offering years of experience of asset management and basic inspections of all plant components. The company’s implementation of a preventive maintenance system yields very good results, as it requires almost no investment in expensive tools or experts. However, this vital part of asset management is very often overlooked.
Implementation and coaching of asset management includes a formal assessment of the current preventive maintenance systems at the plant and then developing regular inspection schedules, techniques and assessments unique to the needs of your organisation. We will then help you determine the key performance indicators and in the final implementation of the programme.
Root-cause failure analysis solutions
The root-cause failure analysis (RCFA) goes hand-in-hand with asset management plans, as it identifies the problems with current processes.
IDCON helps your team structure and implement problem-solving in a more effective manner using simple tools included in our RCFA consulting.
We teach RCFA implementation through our root-cause problem elimination programme. As opposed to simply focusing on analysing problems, this system works to eliminate them using critical thinking. We will train your organisation to connect cause and effect while applying logic to solve a problem and eliminate the cause of the problem (tying into preventive maintenance). As always, the programme will be tailored to the needs of your company and industry.
Spare parts management and technical data
In order to be able to efficiently plan and schedule within a company, spare parts and technical data absolutely must be organised. Spare parts management is often the largest issue faced by planners and supervisors in organising maintenance work. Materials need to be in the right place at the right time.
We offer customised spare parts management training regarding the reliability of the parts as well as organisation and management of spare parts storerooms. We also offer criticality assessments of spare parts in the storeroom.
Leadership in power organisations
Strong leadership is imperative in a successful organisation. We help maintenance leaders establish a leadership process through developing systems procedures as well as documentation. Expectations must be documented, executed and followed up through measurements called key performance indicators.
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Suite 320
8081 Arco Corporate Drive
Raleigh
NC 27617
United States of America
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Products and Services
Maintenance Assessment and Audits
Knowing how effective your organisation is in terms of reliability and maintenance helps to focus your energy on the right things at the right time.
Training and Implementation of Root Cause Failure Analysis
IDCON believes that “root cause analysis” doesn’t adequately describe the results that you want.
Implementation and Training of Asset Management and Conditioning Monitoring
Asset Management or Preventive Maintenance (PM), directly affect equipment reliability.
Materials and Spare Parts Management and Training
At IDCON, we know that the efficient management of spare parts and materials in an organization results in more efficiency with the team members’ time, reduced maintenance costs, and an organised parts inventory.
Implementation and Training of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling of work orders key to a well-functioning maintenance organisation.
White Papers
Equipment Reliability Training Week 2019 Brochure
By the end of Equipment Reliability Training week, client's will have a clear understanding of the preventative maintenance strategies that will work for your plant.
Practical Training for Reliability, Maintenance and Operations
Maintenance planning and scheduling is the cornerstone to empower improved reliability. It enables more effective preventive maintenance, stores, utilisation of craftspeople, maintenance cost control, and much more
Bringing Reliability Consulting and Training to Plants
IDCON has been helping people improve reliability and maintenance at their organisations since 1972.
Pre-Operational Checklists Reinvented
When was the last time we boarded an airplane and thought about what occurs in the cockpit?
Pre-Operational Checklists Reinvented: Data-Driven Reliability
Pre-operational checklists tend to be 'pencil-whipped', ignored or sloppily done, with (of course) the rare exception that is actually completed accurately and with useful notes.
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The IDCON Reliability and Maintenance Conference is taking place in Raleigh, North California, US.
Read moreIDCON has announced two special training events to help improve reliability and maintenance skills in the processing and manufacturing sectors.
Read moreOne of the world’s largest food-grade PET recycling plants, Petstar, is the second company to achieve IDCON’s World Class Reliability and Maintenance Status.
Read moreIDCON will be delivering workshops, presentations and exhibitions at industry events that aim to support reliability and maintenance professionals.
Read moreA complicated set of elements determine a bearing’s life, while SKF certifies that its life is random even when they are operating under identical conditions.
Read moreIDCON will be offering a variety of courses in February and March.
Read moreIDCON will be running several best practice seminars between October and November, in Raleigh, North Carolina, US.
Read moreChrister Idhammar, Founder and CEO of IDCON INC headquartered in Raleigh NC, will be featured at the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) two day Symposium June 7-8, 2017 in Atlanta, GA.
Read moreThe IDCON course is running from 1-2 September 2016 in Raliegh, NC.
Read moreIDCON will be rolling out their YouTube channel this month. Every month the company will be releasing short videos from the Reliability and Maintenance Training Series. The first video will cover the topic 'What is reliability?'.
Read moreIDCON has announced that the company has been accepted for the SMRP Approved Provider Education Program from July 2015 to June 2016.
Read moreIDCON president Torbjörn Idhammar recently returned from Sweden where he met with various clients and potential consulting partners.
Read moreIDCON has announced new training classes that will be held from April 1 to May 2.
Read moreIDCON's latest newsletter describes how to make the most of weekly and daily operations and maintenance meetings, and lists the best practices for non-shutdown backlog targets.
Read moreTo achieve results-orientated reliability and maintenance, plants must realise that production is a partnership between operations, maintenance, stores and engineering.
Read moreCarbon-graphite brushes are generally limited to lower current densities (45 amps / sq.in.) and are used in older, slower speed motors with a maximum surface speed of 4000 ft / min
Read moreDeveloping a smart RCM approach in pursuit of a PM programme can provide long-term operational benefits.
Read moreIn this new series of articles, IDCON president Tor Idhammar will give an insight into some of the most common leadership issues in plants and mills today.
Read moreIDCON has released a white paper entitled 'Reliability and Maintenance Training for the Manufacturing and Process Industry'.
Read moreWe all know that in a reactive maintenance organisation 60-70% of crafts people's time is wasted on finding out what to do, sourcing parts and materials.
Read moreIDCON is seeking a senior maintenance management consultant. You would work worldwide to coach our clients in improving reliability and maintenance work systems.
Read moreThe definition of 'spare parts classification' can fluctuate depending on the vision and / or focus assumed at any given moment.
Read moreThere are many different documentation tools for root cause analysis. Some of the most common are: fishbone diagram, 5 - why, cause-and-effect diagram.
Read moreCondition Monitoring Standards (CMS) are the building blocks of a documentation system created by IDCON for setting up and running a preventive maintenance, essential care and condition monitoring (PM/ECCM) system in any industry. Each CMS has been carefully compiled by IDCON together with master
Read moreThe work process we call maintenance planning can almost always be improved in any given mill or plant. In fact in most plants we visit maintenance planners don't plan. Planners do all kinds of tasks except work order planning. Typical things planners do, and should not do include:
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Suite 320
8081 Arco Corporate Drive
Raleigh
NC 27617
United States of America
