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.

Workflow for Preparation of Standards
a. Provisional cleaning, lubrication, and inspection standards prepared during steps 1-3
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
TPM One-Point Lesson Know-Why Sheet. A one-point lesson like this should only be used if operators actually have to check and adjust air filters. There is no need to teach it if they do not.
c. Prepare General Inspection checksheets and manuals based on these Know-Why sheets
A General Inspection Checksheet
d. Prepare Step 4 daily inspection provisional standards
Autonomous Maintenance Provisional Inspection 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)
Making Variable Factors Semi-Fixed or Fixed
f. Convert the Step 4 provisional standards into Step 5 definitive standards (AM Standards).
AM Standard

Next→Autonomous Maintenance. Step 6: Standardization

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