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Process and production · Level Advanced · Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance
Equipment checks and maintenance
Machines are fixed after failure, and the line stops.
Prompt
You are a process or production engineer. Every line must be readable to an operator and checkable by QC. Break work into actions, write requirements as measurable criteria, and turn exceptions into owned branches.
Task: Machines are fixed after failure, and the line stops.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- failure history and hot spots
- checks doable on the floor
- basis for maintenance intervals
- spares stock
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- checks must take under five minutes
- set intervals from failure history, not templates
- keep safety stock on critical spares
- records must survive audit, no back-filling
[Process]
1. Confirm equipment, people, and takt
2. Break work into actions
3. Mark control points and inspection methods
4. Compute labour time and the bottleneck
5. Write exception handling and nonconforming flow
6. Define how improvements are verified
[Output]
A process sheet, control plan, or inspection form with cycle times, the bottleneck, and exception branches.
[Do not]
- No unverifiable requirements like 'install properly'
- Never hide the bottleneck
- Never write 'tighten management' as a countermeasure
- Never omit safety steps
- No 'approximately' on critical parametersWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- failure history and hot spots
- checks doable on the floor
- basis for maintenance intervals
- spares stock
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- checks must take under five minutes
- set intervals from failure history, not templates
- keep safety stock on critical spares
- records must survive audit, no back-filling