5 Reasons Why Maintenance Skills Training is Not Effective |
Maintenance Skills training most of the time does not meet management's intent. The intent of Maintenance Skills Training is to:
- Optimize equipment reliability.
- Reduce cost.
- Increase Maintenance Personnel's confidence in their abilities.
The question which one must answer is why is skills training not effective?
1. Short training courses provide short term results.
- Our memory has a limited capacity to repeat anything which is not established in our long term memory
- One must learn the foundational requirements of any skill. One major foundational elements is "Knowledge". Without knowledge a skill can only be an act which provides no lasting results
2. Knowledge for most people is not easily retrievable.
- We have all found yourself trying to retrieve information we know and this can be frustrating and even lead to one "guessing" which could lead to equipment problems/failures
3. Known Best Maintenance Repair Practices are hard to find.
- Many times Best Maintenance Repair Practices are available however no one can locate the information when it is needed
4. Repeatable procedures are not available.
- PM procedures such as; "Check Belt for Tension" are used, try to repeat this task the same way with the same expected results
5. Maintenance KPIs do not show a problem.
- Look at Maintenance Cost as a % of Replacement of Asset Value - RAV) See the SMRP Metrics Manual.
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