Maintenance Cost Reduction

Interviews on Cost reduction

Each organisation should identify which opportunities will give the highest short and long term return for the least implementation effort.

Rotables Management
- Equipment Overhaul Standards & Specifications
- Repair Suppliers Competency Assessment
Outage Management
RCA & Defect Elimination
- Postmortems and Strip-down Reports
Spares and Materials Review
Improved Cost Information and Cost Analysis
- Ensuring All Costs have Front Line Owners
- Identifying Waste and Reduction Opportunities
- System of Formal Alternatives Review for Larger Cost Before Commitment
Preventive Maintenance and CM Review & Upgrade
Deferring Costs
Improved Planning & Scheduling
Standard Reliability Best Practice
- Greasing
- Oil Cleanliness & Oil CM
- Lube Storage, Oil Change-out & Oil top-up
- Bolting and Flange Connections
- Electrical Connections
- Shaft Alignment & Soft Foot
- Balancing
- V-Belt and sprocket Drives
- Pumps and Gland Seals
- Bearing Fitting
- Fits and Tolerances
- Seals, Gaskets and Sealing
  - Wash-down Protection
  - Contaminant Entry Protection
  - Leak Reduction
- Valves and Valve Monitoring
- Welding Quality Improvement
- Structural Cracking reduction
- Pneumatic Systems Reliability Improvement
- Hydraulic Systems Reliability Improvement

"Focus on Reliability" (part 1) - Christer Idhammar [1]
- 'What to do' case study
"Focus on Reliability" (part 2) - Christer Idhammar [2]
- 'What not to do' case study
Reliability Improvements Drive Down Maintenance Costs - Christer Idhammar [[3]]
- Two 'What not to do' case studies and one 'What to do' case study
Ron Moore Information on Cost Reduction VS Cost Cutting Media:Ron_Moore_Slides-_Cost_Reduction_VS_Cost_Cutting.pdf
Visible and Invisible Maintenance Cost Savings - Christer Idhammar (President of IDCON)[4]
Why many maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver expected results - Hedgehog or Fox? - Christer Idhammar [5]* Maintenance Management Legends (Part 1) - Torbjorn Idhammar Part 1 [6] Follow the links to other 6 parts
Cutting Maintenance Cost Through Better Planning and Scheduling - David Krings - Potlatch - [7]
Book - Results Oriented Reliability & Maintenance Management by IDCON [8]
Lubrication - Maintenance Cost or Opportunity? - Mark Barnes - Noria - [9]