Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to undertake common forms of analyses associated with proactive maintenance strategies.
This unit applies to technical experts, technicians, engineers, tradespeople or other roles who are required to undertake analyses for predictive, preventative and/or reliability centred maintenance of plant and/or equipment. This includes undertaking a failure effects analysis in accordance with organisation’s procedures.
This unit applies in any organisation that is implementing proactive maintenance as part of a competitive systems and practices strategy.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• undertake proactive maintenance analyses of at least 2 items of plant or equipment

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• cleaning requirements and operational principles of equipment in area of responsibility
• methods of assessing operator and maintenance skill gaps and addressing them
• techniques for determining mean time between failures (MTBF)
• techniques for undertaking failure effects analysis
• principles of competitive systems and practices strategies being implemented and how to adapt them to maintenance
• root cause analysis
• techniques to analyse condition monitoring data.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources
• modelling of industry operating conditions, including:
• proactive maintenance processes and procedures.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to interpret condition monitoring reports, maintenance records\n• Writing skills to document changes to maintenance strategy\n• Oral communication skills to liaise with stakeholders, promote team engagement\n• Numeracy skills to interpret and analyse performance data and information.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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