Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to lead a production or maintenance team in a proactive maintenance environment. This unit has a strong emphasis on developing and resourcing the team to interpret information and monitor equipment and operation.
This unit applies in a competitive systems and practices organisation where proactive maintenance strategies, such as total preventative and/or productive maintenance (TPM) or reliability centred maintenance (RCM) are used. This unit applies to a team leader or other person who as part of their role assists others in implementing and following the proactive maintenance practices.
The unit covers the leading of a team in proactive maintenance activities, including keeping records, visual checks, analysis of failures and effects on production and housekeeping.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance Criteria Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | |
1. Lead team in monitoring process and equipment | 1.1 | Demonstrate to team how to observe the process and equipment continuously and critically using senses to identify potential and actual problems |
1.2 | Identify to team data indicators that must be monitored and recorded | |
1.3 | Ensure team monitors identified data indicators frequently and critically | |
1.4 | Ensure symptoms of operations outside the desired range of conditions and performance are recognised | |
1.5 | Analyse cause of equipment non-standard performance within scope of role | |
1.6 | Ensure team members take timely action to solve and refer problems in accordance with procedures | |
2. Apply proactive maintenance strategy | 2.1 | Obtain and discuss maintenance strategy with relevant people |
2.2 | Identify aspects of maintenance strategy which require specific input from team | |
2.3 | Discuss maintenance strategy with team members | |
2.4 | Ensure team members have resources and training to be able to make the required contributions | |
3. Analyse standard procedures and work practices | 3.1 | Read and review team procedures and practices for compatibility with maintenance strategy |
3.2 | Identify areas where production procedures and practices should be changed to comply with maintenance strategy | |
3.3 | Identify areas where maintenance strategy should change to comply with production procedures and practices | |
3.4 | Identify activities or areas where changes might increase equipment reliability | |
3.5 | Take action to have the required changes made | |
4. Facilitate team contribution to proactive maintenance | 4.1 | Monitor team's contribution to proactive maintenance |
4.2 | Arrange for competency development of team members | |
4.3 | Facilitate ongoing examination by the team of process reliability and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) | |
4.4 | Arrange for follow through and implementation of team originated improvements | |
Foundation Skills
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.
Range Statement
Sectors
Competency Field
Competitive systems and practices