MSS405077Develop a proactive maintenance strategy

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What an assessment for MSS405077 must cover

35 assessable components: 4 elements (20 performance criteria), 1 performance evidence and 10 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Determine appropriate analytical techniques

  • 1.1Liaise with key stakeholders to determine objectives of maintenance strategy
  • 1.2Examine current maintenance situation to determine major areas requiring improvement
  • 1.3Calculate costs of maintenance situation
  • 1.4Compare possible strategies, techniques and tools against organisation needs
  • 1.5Estimate costs for different strategies
  • 1.6Select possible strategies, techniques and tools
  • 1.7Confirm selected strategies, techniques and tools with key stakeholders

2 Develop reliability strategies

  • 2.1Select preferred maintenance strategy
  • 2.2Examine and adapt strategy to organisation needs and priorities
  • 2.3Examine and adapt techniques and tools required to implement strategy
  • 2.4Liaise with key stakeholders to develop an implementation plan
  • 2.5Identify key information and performance indicators relevant to strategy

3 Implement strategy

  • 3.1Determine data collection processes
  • 3.2Identify hardware and other resources required
  • 3.3Identify skills development needs in consultation with key stakeholders and initiate action to address needs
  • 3.4Confirm agreement on strategy with relevant managers and obtain any required authorisations
  • 3.5Coordinate activities required to implement strategy

4 Monitor implementation of strategy

  • 4.1Compare information and performance indicators with desired levels
  • 4.2Discuss strategy and implementation with key stakeholders to identify and resolve issues
  • 4.3Take action to adjust implementation and/or strategy, as required, in response to issues

Performance evidence

  • develop and implement a proactive maintenance strategy for at least one work area or product family.

Knowledge evidence

  • maintenance strategies, techniques and tools appropriate to the organisation, their characteristics, strengths and weaknesses
  • strategic thinking and its application to proactive maintenance
  • principles of process equipment and how to improve its reliability
  • resources required and how to obtain them
  • overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
  • mean time between failure (MTBF)
  • failure mode effects analysis (FMEA)
  • condition monitoring
  • cost components of maintenance strategies, including: direct and indirect costs, techniques for estimating costs related to maintenance strategies, depreciation, capital versus expense, determination and use of present day value of future costs, life cycle costing
  • techniques to facilitate communication and agreement across levels and areas of the organisation.

Foundation skills

  • Reading skills: to interpret workplace documentation
  • Writing skills: to document and communicate implementation plans
  • Oral communication skills: to facilitate engagement and participation
  • Numeracy skills: to determine and interpret KPIs, calculate and estimate costs

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