The company you work for wants to show potential customers they have trained techs to perform maintenance. It's a selling feature.
Also, you are shown how to work more efficiently and prevent repetitive motions thus reducing injuries......or so the "brochure" claims. In practice, we do an SM any way we feel like. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink!
This training may work on new mechanics right from the start but older techs habits can't be broken
There are certain things expected from our company for a mechanic to do during a paid maintenance
Getting them to do those procedures is the big challenge. Not in what order. I'm so ticked at seeing a customers truck that we maintained every 3 months, in poor condition with a battery so corroded and poorly maintained that the cables fall off in my hand. Batteries are supposed to be removed and rollers cleaned, but you find your fellow tech didn't bother
Now, the customer is looking at a huge bill to replace main hoses as they are buried in acid corrosion. You can't teach teach good work ethic
I'm disgusted