This unit covers the knowledge and skills required by a maintenance person to assist in the implementation of a proactive maintenance strategy in a manufacturing environment. This unit includes the

interaction between maintenance worker and operator as appropriate.

In a typical scenario, an organisation has adopted/is implementing Total Preventative Maintenance/Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) or similar strategies. As part of this the maintenance personnel are expected to assist in the implementation by determining appropriate maintenance related schedules and also by providing maintenance related assistance to non-maintenance personnel, such as assisting production personnel to fulfil their role in the TPM/RCM strategy.