This unit covers the knowledge and skills needed by a person who leads a production or maintenance team in a proactive maintenance environment.

This unit applies to a team leader in a competitive

manufacturing organisation where proactive maintenance strategies such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) are used and the team

leader needs to lead the team to take an active role in proactive maintenance.

The unit assumes that team members and in particular the team leader are in possession of technical knowledge appropriate to their position about the manufacturing process and equipment and are able to apply this to the maintenance strategy.

The unit covers the leading of a team in proactive maintenance activities such as keeping records, visual checks, analysis of failures and effects on production, housekeeping etc. The unit does not cover breakdown maintenance, condition monitoring or non destructive testing.