4.3 Maintenance, Installation, and Repair
Maintain and optimize manufacturing equipment and systems.
Critical Work Functions
- 4.3.1 Maintenance & Installation
- Support the installation, customization, or upgrading of equipment.
- Coordinate maintenance to support production or industrial process.
- Identify, diagnose, and/or repair equipment problems.
- Communicate with others to ensure maintenance and repairs meet operational needs.
- Demonstrate continuous hands-on knowledge of equipment operations.
- Maintain equipment, tools, and workstations.
- Utilize predictive maintenance techniques.
- Explain maintenance impact on critical operations.
- Read, interpret, communicate and document action, information and instruction from technical documents.
Technical Content Areas
- 4.3.2 General Skills
- Disassembly/assembly skills
- Installation of parts for industrial equipment
- Equipment/system/defect management
- Installation and calibration of instrumentation
- Schematic drawings and control documents
- Use of hand tools
- Design and document equipment/system/process improvements
- Use of hardware and software tools
- Technical documentation
- Information communication skills (e.g., manufacturing shift pass-down practices, on the job task-oriented instruction, and machine performance parameters)
- 4.3.3 Machining skills
- Drilling
- Cutting and bending
- Milling
- Lathing
- Welding
- Plating
- 4.3.4 Electrical systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.5 Electronic systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.6 Hydraulic systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.7 Pneumatic systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.8 Mechanical systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.9 Mechanical power transmission systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.10 Piping operations maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.11 Networking and communication systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.12 Programmable/configurable systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.13 High vacuum systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.14 Laser systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.15 Machine automation systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.16 Lubrication processes
- 4.3.17 Bearings and couplings maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.18 Belt drives and chain drives maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.19 Computer systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.20 Process controls maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.21 Pump systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.22 Thermal systems (HVAC) maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.23 Refrigeration systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.24 Separation/heat exchange systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.25 Water treatment/destruction systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.26 High voltage/utility systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.27 Programmable logic controlled industrial equipment maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.29 Electromechanical systems
- 4.3.30 X-ray maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.31 Chemical processing systems maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.32 Chemical and gas delivery and disposal system maintenance, installation and repair
- 4.3.33 Reliability and maintainability
- Analysis of failure data
- Root cause analysis
- Reliability models
- Documentation requirements
- Investigative techniques
- Alarm and event analysis
- 4.3.34 Clean room protocol for maintenance – Cleanroom protocol, techniques and workmanship when performing equipment maintenance
- Clean room protocol for hand tools
- Clean room protocol for specific systems