Autonomous maintenance

Autonomous maintenance involves empowering plant operators in conducting equipment checks/adjustments and basic maintenance tasks that would normally be performed by tradesmen or engineers by referring to SOP's. This allows operators to familiarise themselves better with the equipment they work with and troubleshoot problems more effectively when the engineering/maintenance department is not on site.
The purpose of implementing an autonomous maintenance system is to up skill the operators and give them ownership of the plant, but also relieve the maintenance and engineering department from low value adding tasks so that they can focus on higher value adding tasks such as plant reliability and preventive maintenance, work on specialised tasks, and continuous improvement projects.

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