IDCON Preventative Maintenance Solutions for Food Processing Plants
IDCON offers consultation services for maintenance efficiency in the food processing industry.
The company trains organisations to optimise production reliability and reduce the costs of manufacturing and maintenance. Its services include planning and scheduling, root cause analysis, preventive maintenance (PM) and spare parts management.
IDCON provides maintenance audits and process implementation, which are customised to meet client requirements.
Improving efficiency of maintenance strategies in the food processing industry
IDCON trains food production organisations in current best practice (CBP) techniques that help improve the reliability of plant systems and reduce inefficient downtime.
The company teaches operations and maintenance strategies that are developed based on IDCON’s extensive experience with more than 300 organisations worldwide.
IDCON performs a reliability and maintenance assessment to investigate the leadership and organisation of processing plants, as well as small parts and material management, facilities, technical databases and scheduling.
This audit includes performance comparisons between the client’s food processing plant and the CBP documentation, which comprises around 200 criteria designed to reduce maintenance costs and reliability. Differentiations are identified and scored, allowing managers to compare the processes of their organisation against others.
Based on these comparisons, IDCON develops an action plan that involves progress monitoring as improvements are implemented.
Maintenance planning and scheduling in the food processing industry
IDCON provides thorough training for maintenance planning and scheduling in food processing plants. This customised, formal and on-the-job coaching is designed to develop key skills. It can be combined with asset management, PM programme or materials management system to improve productivity and decrease downtime.
The company helps define clear roles within clients’ planning and scheduling teams, reviewing and updating existing workflows, as well as organising any backlogs. It also submits shutdown and turnaround reviews, assesses the use of computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS) and performs any other required actions.
Asset management and preventive maintenance optimisation
IDCON optimises asset management, working with PM programmes to ensure that equipment is set up correctly and regular inspections have taken place.
The company will efficiently compile all asset management activities and determine what PM tasks should be kept, changed or removed.
IDCON offers professional implementation support services and customised training in different methodologies to decide whether a PM task is valid or not. Its skilled and experienced consultants document PM processes and provide customised training in essential care and inspection techniques. The company helps clients understand why and how these valuable processes work.
Root cause analysis for issues in the food processing plant
The second phase of IDCON’s asset management plan identifies the problems that need to be resolved at food processing plants.
IDCON helps food manufacturers develop the critical thinking skills necessary to identify and document the root causes and effects of each issue. These two components naturally and cost-effectively add root cause analysis (RCA) into daily reliability management processes.
The company’s consulting service ensures that a well-developed RCA is implemented alongside functioning asset management, planning and scheduling systems. This frees up resources because there will be fewer emergencies due to successful PM.
IDCON primarily focuses on the use of critical and creative thinking in root cause problem elimination (RCPE). It helps clients’ teams develop critical thinking skills for evaluating problem statements, data, facts and possible causes, as well as identifying breaks in logical reasoning. The teams will be able to develop new ways to find information, create solutions and make sure that those solutions work.
Spare parts management and technical data
IDCON’s spare parts management programme ensures that food industry supervisors, planners and personnel can quickly and easily access required materials or parts. The programme helps plants become more efficient and organised in terms of spare parts.
The company also develops a decision model for stocking spare parts, as well as organises storerooms. It supports implementation strategies and helps determine customised key performance indicators (KPI).
IDCON helps clients get to where they need to be to run food processing plants most effectively. The company develops systems and procedures to establish documented expectations and measure execution using KPI.
Make an enquiry
8081 Arco Corporate Drive
Suite 320
Raleigh 27617
North Carolina
United States of America
IDCON Images
Products and Services
Maintenance Assessment and Audits
Knowing how effective your organisation is in reliability and maintenance helps to focus your energies on the right things at the right time. The first step is often assessing or auditing current practices to determine where gaps exist.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training and Implementation
Maintenance planning and scheduling of work orders is the hub of a well functioning maintenance organisation. For maintenance planning and scheduling to function well other systems such as preventive maintenance, stores, work order history and backlog management must also work well.
Materials and Spare Parts Management Training and Implementation
Improving how clients manage the spare parts and materials in organisation provides huge benefits in the reduction of maintenance costs, time and parts inventory.
Preventive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Training and Implementation
Preventive maintenance directly impacts equipment reliability. IDCON’s preventive maintenance (PM) training supports implementation of a PM programme that enables plants to both prevent and find equipment failures.
Root Cause Failure Analysis Training and Implementation
IDCON believes that root cause analysis doesn’t adequately describe the results that you want. The company has named its process Root Cause Problem Elimination™ because the ultimate outcome is to actually eliminate the problem.
White Papers
IDCON Training Brochure: Are You Running Your Plant?
Are you running your plant? Or is it running you? If you’re tired of react-repair-redo, it’s time for a sustainable approach!
Run Your Plant, Don’t Let It Run You!
Optimise your asset preventive maintenance programme with Equipment Reliability Training Week by IDCON.
Reliability and Maintenance Training Open Courses
IDCON coach and train its clients in reliability and maintenance to positively impact production, reliability, and lower overall cost. The company is a global consulting form comprised of consultants with practical industry knowledge.
Related Projects
Press Release
IDCON has announced two special events for 2019.
Read morePetStar has received a rating of 78.8 out of 100 in Current Best Practices in Reliability and Maintenance Management.
Read moreIDCON has announced a range of courses discussing topics within maintenance and operations.
Read moreIDCON has announced that it will be presenting at SMRP and exhibiting in Booth 101.
Read moreA bearing has an unpredictable lifespan due to a complex set of factors.
Read moreIDCON has announced it will be holding a range of courses throughout February and March, 2018.
Read moreIDCON's best practice seminars are suitable for optimising reliability and maintenance levels.
Read moreIDCON has announced it is attending a variety of industry events this year, including Word Management: Maintenance, Planning, and Scheduling event, the Mainstream Conference, the SMRP Symposium, the Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance Conference, and the SMRP Carlolinas Chapter Annual Meeting.
Read moreIDCON has announced it will be attending many key events throughout May and June, including the Mainstream Conference and the SMRP Symposium.
Read moreIDCON has announced its founder, chief executive officer (CEO), and executive vice-President Christer Idhammar will be presenting 12 workshops, including the 'Dos and Don'ts to Achieve and Sustain Asset Integrity Excellence'.
Read moreFounder and chief executive officer (CEO) of IDCON Christer Idhammar has visited with US Legislators to discuss the importance of skills training in the US workforce.
Read moreIDCON CEO and founder Christer Idhammar will be delivering a workshop at the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) Symposium, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia from 7-8 June.
Read moreReliability and maintenance consulting firm headquartered in the US IDCON has added new partners in Asia.
Read moreUS-based reliability and maintenance consulting firm IDCON has released its 2017 public training dates.
Read moreRegional Offices
8081 Arco Corporate Drive
Suite 320
Raleigh 27617
North Carolina
United States of America
