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Our equipment engineer writes a maintenance instruction for every machine for both the operators and himself. The operator’s maintenance content is for daily and weekly maintenance. The engineer’s maintenance content is for monthly, quarterly, and yearly maintenance. We also have Monthly Maintenance, Quarterly Maintenance, and Yearly Maintenance forms for each machine.
My opinion is that:
1. The maintenance content for operators should be separated from the maintenance content for engineers, as one work instruction containing different material might confuse the operators.
2. The equipment engineers don’t need a work instruction to do his/her maintenance, because he/she is supposed to be an expert, and should know what is best for the machine, and if he must write a work instruction to follow when maintaining, the work instruction would inhibit his ability to adjust maintenance method to suit the circumstance.
3. The Monthly Maintenance, Quarterly Maintenance, and Yearly Maintenance forms are unnecessary, because their purpose is to serve as tool to remind the engineer what need to be done, and we or the auditors can’t say that the equipment engineer used a wrong method to maintain the machine by the record because we are not expert.
So what I want to do is:
1. Cut off the engineer’s maintenance material in the maintenance instruction, and make the maintenance instruction specific to the operators.
2. Write down the engineer’s preventive maintenance schedule on the operator’s maintenance instruction.
3. Replace the Monthly Maintenance, Quarterly Maintenance, and Yearly Maintenance forms, with a general Equipment Log, which record the significant event such as monthly, quarterly, yearly maintenance, and parts change.
4. Arrange the engineer maintenance method into training material to train the equipment engineers, but don’t release them as controlled document.
This is a big change. I remember the last time I wanted to change some department’s document format I lost the right to comment them. So I want to be safe, to see how others view this problem first.
My opinion is that:
1. The maintenance content for operators should be separated from the maintenance content for engineers, as one work instruction containing different material might confuse the operators.
2. The equipment engineers don’t need a work instruction to do his/her maintenance, because he/she is supposed to be an expert, and should know what is best for the machine, and if he must write a work instruction to follow when maintaining, the work instruction would inhibit his ability to adjust maintenance method to suit the circumstance.
3. The Monthly Maintenance, Quarterly Maintenance, and Yearly Maintenance forms are unnecessary, because their purpose is to serve as tool to remind the engineer what need to be done, and we or the auditors can’t say that the equipment engineer used a wrong method to maintain the machine by the record because we are not expert.
So what I want to do is:
1. Cut off the engineer’s maintenance material in the maintenance instruction, and make the maintenance instruction specific to the operators.
2. Write down the engineer’s preventive maintenance schedule on the operator’s maintenance instruction.
3. Replace the Monthly Maintenance, Quarterly Maintenance, and Yearly Maintenance forms, with a general Equipment Log, which record the significant event such as monthly, quarterly, yearly maintenance, and parts change.
4. Arrange the engineer maintenance method into training material to train the equipment engineers, but don’t release them as controlled document.
This is a big change. I remember the last time I wanted to change some department’s document format I lost the right to comment them. So I want to be safe, to see how others view this problem first.
