Many basic standards and other documents are created during the activities carried out at Steps 4 and 5, the most important steps in Autonomous Maintenance. This section describes the process by which these documents are put together.
a. Provisional cleaning, lubrication, and inspection standards prepared during steps 1-3
b. Prepare Know-Why sheets for devices that operators will be checking and adjusting
c. Prepare General Inspection checksheets and manuals based on these Know-Why sheets
d. Prepare Step 4 daily inspection provisional standards
The Step 4 standards will usually contain more items than the Step 1-3 provisional standards, even if these are reduced to the minimum.
e. Reduce the number of checks, group them together, and streamline them to reduce the checking time (fix variable factors)
f. Convert the Step 4 provisional standards into Step 5 definitive standards (AM Standards).
4M Analysis Process
The purpose of this procedure is to define the steps to do a 4M …
