While the technology that the maintenance function maintains needs a more sophisticated approach to maintenance, there is a growing gap between the need for and the application of maintenance plans and strategies.
The person that plays the kingpin role in this is the maintenance supervisor. He/she must firstly understand and embrace modern maintenance technologies (such as Condition Based Maintenance, Laser Alignment, and Tribological Practice), methodologies (such as Reliability Centred Maintenance), and Systems.
Secondly, the role of maintenance workers implementing and effectively
using these technologies, methodologies, and systems is critical to the
success of the organisation.
And the only person that can ensure that
this does occur is the Maintenance Supervisor.
He/she should be able to get the best (sometimes even the impossible) from maintenance artisans and
workers to ensure that this gap is closed properly.
The problem is that maintenance supervisors are mostly appointed from amongst the artisan fraternity
and has to supervise based on the little knowledge regarding supervision that he/she gained from his/her previous supervisor (s).
Although this often teaches one the negatives of wrong supervision and some of the positives, it is simply not enough to produce the supervisor that will get quality maintenance output
through other people.
This course focusses on three aspects of supervision, namely to be open for new learning, getting results through people, and manage the facilities/resources to his/her disposal effectively.
Its aim is to
effectively motivate and equip the maintenance supervisor for his/her role in ensuring maintenance success.
To get a brochure on any of these courses phone
Annerie Terblanche at 087 808 5857 or 084 516 7166,
or contact Hendrik Keller for information (see right).