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Required Skills

Required skills

Required skills include

communicating with others using a variety of media and techniques

adapting personal communication strategy to different levels of literacy and numeracy in target individuals and groups

working in a team

analysing quantitative and qualitative information to determine proactive maintenance strategy options

solving problems to root cause

applying basic arithmetic and statistical techniques

planning complex strategies including consideration of timelines resources benefitcost implementation requirements and monitoring and adjustment considerations

reading and interpreting engineering specifications drawings and charts

using information system terminals and computers

prioritising options including reasons and recommendations

recording data

Required knowledge

Required knowledge includes

characteristics and strengths of different types of strategies techniques and tools such as

TPM

RCM

mean time between failure MBTF

failure mode effects analysis FMEA

condition monitoring

root cause analysis RCA

holistic costs of different strategies combining cost of maintenance with costs of lost production sales and so on as relevant to the organisation

business goals sufficient to match the strategy to the business needs

strategic thinking and its application to proactive maintenance

principles of process equipment and how to improve its reliability

resources required and how to obtain them

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence of the ability to

consider a variety of proactive maintenance strategies for suitability to an organisation

consult operators maintenance management and other stakeholders in decisions on proactive maintenance strategies

implement selected strategies

monitor performance to selected indicators and make improvements to selected proactive maintenance strategies

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment of performance must be undertaken in a workplace using or implementing one or more competitive systems and practices

Access may be required to

workplace procedures and plans relevant to work area

specifications and documentation relating to planned currently being implemented or implemented changes to work processes and procedures relevant to the assessee

documentation and information in relation to production waste overheads and hazard controlmanagement

reports from supervisorsmanagers

case studies and scenarios to assess responses to contingencies

Method of assessment

A holistic approach should be taken to the assessment

Competence in this unit may be assessed by using a combination of the following to generate evidence

demonstration in the workplace

workplace projects

suitable simulation

case studiesscenarios particularly for assessment of contingencies improvement scenarios and so on

targeted questioning for appropriate portions

reports from supervisors peers and colleagues thirdparty reports

portfolio of evidence

In all cases it is expected that practical assessment will be combined with targeted questioning to assess underpinning knowledge

Where applicable reasonable adjustment must be made to work environments and training situations to accommodate ethnicity age gender demographics and disability

Guidance information for assessment

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate and appropriate to the oracy language and literacy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed


Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Competitive systems and practices

Competitive systems and practices may include, but are not limited to:

lean operations

agile operations

preventative and predictive maintenance approaches

monitoring and data gathering systems, such as Systems Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Materials Resource Planning (MRP) and proprietary systems

statistical process control systems, including six sigma and three sigma

Just in Time (JIT), kanban and other pull-related operations control systems

supply, value, and demand chain monitoring and analysis

5S

continuous improvement (kaizen)

breakthrough improvement (kaizen blitz)

cause/effect diagrams

overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

takt time

process mapping

problem solving

run charts

standard procedures

current reality tree

Competitive systems and practices should be interpreted so as to take into account:

the stage of implementation of competitive systems and practices

the size of the enterprise

the work organisation, culture, regulatory environment and the industry sector

OEE

OEE is the combination of the main factors causing loss of productive capacity from equipment/plant and is:

OEE = availability x performance x quality rate

where:

availability takes into account losses due to breakdown, set-up and adjustments

performance takes into account losses due to minor stoppages, reduced speed and idling

quality rate takes into account losses due to rejects, reworks and start-up waste

MTBF

MTBF is one key measure of the effectiveness of a maintenance procedure, and is an indicator as to whether root causes are being found and resolved. If MTBF is reducing, then it is an indicator that the maintenance regime is failing.

There are many possible causes of any problem. Eliminating some will have no impact, others will ameliorate the problem. However, elimination of the root cause will eliminate the problem. There should only be one root cause for any problem and so the analysis should continue until this one cause is found. Elimination of the root cause permanently eliminates the problem.

Depending on the equipment, operations and procedures of the organisation, alternative statistical records of maintenance and maintenance-related events may be substituted for MTBF providing they relate strategies for improving OEE.

FMEA

FMEA is a systematic approach that identifies potential failure modes in a system, product, or operations/assembly operation caused by either design or operations/assembly process deficiencies. It also identifies critical or significant design or process characteristics that require special controls to prevent or detect failure modes. FMEA is a tool used to prevent problems from occurring.

Some industry sectors have highly adapted forms of FMEA and may practice traditional FMEA in say their routine maintenance while using another technique, such as Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP) for design and modification.

HAZOP is a form of FMEA which has been practiced by the process industries for over 30 years and examines the implications of changes in process conditions to process stability.

Condition monitoring

Condition monitoring is used to describe the process of analysing the implications of condition monitoring data for proactive maintenance whether it be obtained from non destructive testing (NDT) reports, visual assessment by experts, diagnostic reports obtained from SCADA or other enterprise or equipment software and product or process quality analyses. It does not require the actual undertaking of the NDT or condition monitoring assessment or test. If this is required appropriate units from other Training Packages will be required.