Certified Industrial Maintenance Mechanics (CIMMs) are responsible for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance. They are multiskilled individuals whose expertise is primarily mechanical in nature as opposed to instrumentation or electrical.

CIMMs have a minimum of five years of relevant work experience in the maintenance mechanic field or three years experience and a two-year associate degree in maintenance or a related field.

This question is from Performance Domain III: Troubleshooting and Analysis.

CIMM question

What are two resources available to a maintenance mechanic to help verify a problem?

A. The capital plan and the installation manuals

B. The operator of the system and the equipment historical data

C. The plant engineers and the supervisor

D. The operations supervisor and his crew

CIMM answer

The best answer is B, the operator of the system and equipment historical data.

The maintenance mechanic should always have a conference with the operator to discuss temperature, noise, pressure, flow, and other working parameters. After conferring with the process operator, check past history for a similar failure and repair.