Behavioral Change through Autonomous Maintenance

The AM Team Work Process involves the entire production organization in restoring and improving equipment while providing an extensive technical skill development program. As a consequence, a sense of team work ownership and accountability are developed and people's behaviors do also change gradually.

Such changes will involve different levels of the organization and thus, the systems required to deliver and sustain them may not be exclusive of the Autonomous Maintenance Pillar. This is again another opportunity to promote Integration as a key concept when implementing TPM.

As individuals, the level of accountability, ownership and personal skills will be increasing step by step. This needs to be translated into specific targets to be accomplished at the end of each step showing the behavioral change we are after.

When bringing all these individuals together in a team, we also expect an improvement on the team work process (efficiency) that will directly correlate with better results delivery (effectiveness).

Leadership should not expect this behavioral change to occur immediately. It will gradually take place as people move through the steps.

All this evolution for both individuals and teams is assessed through the AM Step Audits to ensure that AM Pillar is really delivering both technical and behavioral capability.

Finally, the organization as such will have to initiate some changes into their design features to match with this behavioral change. This is the work of the Organization Pillar.