Autonomous Maintenance

Zero breakdown target will never be achieved when only Maintenance Department is involved in handling machine breakdown. This is so because the breakdowns do not stop but develop from a small to serious ones. Zero breakdowns can be achieved only if production operators are involved in finding any abnormalities.

Maintenance activities conducted  by production operators are known as Autonomous Maintenance. This is the most important element in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) implementation. In Autonomous Maintenance, production operators do not only run production process, but are also involved in simple maintenance activities. By doing this, symptom of breakdown can be detected as early as possible, so that it may be entirely avoided.