Autonomous maintenance (AM) is a team-based approach to maintenance activities and part of a total productive maintenance (TPM) process. The process is a partnership between operators, maintenance technicians, engineers and leaders in the operation and maintenance of the equipment.
The goal of autonomous maintenance is to prepare operators to do some equipment care independently of the maintenance staff. learn the steps necessary to involve operators in maintaining their own equipment through daily inspections, lubrications, detecting abnormalities, and precision checks. Properly implemented AM eliminates the causes of 40-60 per cent of unplanned downtime, freeing skilled trades for more specialised activities, including major overhauls, upgrades, predictive programs and new equipment planning and design.
Understanding the needs of modern business operations CII Bhopal Zone in association with TRUBA Group of Institutes has organised a one-day Training Programme on Autonomous Maintenance- ‘Jishu-Hozen’ to show the practical ways in educating and motivating people to be equipment conscious operators.
Main objectives of the programme is to educate and motivate people to take actions and to care for machines and provide guidelines to develop - “Equipment conscious operators” and change the conventional view of -" All equipment can fail " to " Equipment shall not fail and defects and failures can be reduced to zero ". This training programme leads the participants through the steps in understanding, why autonomous maintenance is a powerful shop floor tool for keeping machines running longer, faster, and more efficiently and become part of the maintenance team to increase productivity.
The training programme was attended by industrial like Bend Joints Pvt ltd, Permali Wallace, Aadarsh Printers Pvt ltd to name a few. The training was also an opportunity for engineering students those who are ready to step in to their professional career.