Autonomous maintenance

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The autonomous maintenance is one of the pillars of the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The basic idea of ​​this maintenance strategy, which originated in Japan , is that maintenance employees are not necessarily required for maintenance measures. On the contrary, if a maintenance employee has to be called for every small repair or maintenance, a lot of time often goes by in which the systems and personnel are idle.

It can therefore be worthwhile to instruct production staff in the functionality of their system in order to carry out simple maintenance tasks, such as minor maintenance measures. This has two main advantages. On the one hand, the maintenance employees are relieved by the distribution of maintenance tasks. You can take better care of more complicated repair measures that require special qualifications and deal more intensively with the analysis of weak points or improvement measures. On the other hand, the production employee deals with the functionality of his system and gets to know it. In addition, the machine operators can bring their experience from production to maintenance and vice versa.

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