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4 General inspection routines
5 Autonomous inspection
6 Organization and tidiness
7 Full autonomous maintenance
As these seven steps are taken, over an agreed and achievable timetable,
operators will develop straightforward common-sense skills which enable
them to play a full part in ensuring optimum availability of machines. At no
stage should they attempt work beyond the limits of their skills: their
maintenance colleagues are there for that purpose.

Maintainer asset care
In parallel with the operator asset care steps, maintenance best practice
development supports the stepwise implementation.
1 Refurbish critical equipment and establish back-up strategies for
software/ systems.
2 Contain accelerated deterioration and develop countermeasures to
common problems. Establish correct parameter settings.
3 Set condition monitoring and routine servicing standards to improve
response times and reduce sporadic failures.
4 Use event analysis to fine-tune asset care delivery towards zero
breakdowns.
5 Routine restoration of normal wear to stabilize component life. Hand
over routine maintenance to operators.
6 Use senses to detect internal deterioration.
7 To extend component life and improve equipment life prediction.

Quality maintenance
The role of maintenance evolves from planned maintenance to lead the quality
of maintenance in order to:
1 Eliminate accelerated deterioration.
2 Eliminate design weaknesses.
3 Eliminate minor quality defects as a route to delivering optimum
conditions.
4 Systemize/fool-proof to maintain optimum conditions with reduced
intervention.

Continuous skill development
The above will only become a reality provided we develop people’s
competences to:
0 establish the purpose of training as a key lever for sharing ideas, values
and behaviours;
establish training objectives linked to business goal delivery;
agree methods of delivery which make it easy to deploy ideas cross-
shift;