There is a drastic weakness in our plantation management system, including mill management as well. It is about time for the plantation management team to review the system in vogue for the past six decades or so. The existing system was suitable when Malaysian plantation industry started from coconut and moved on to rubber. At that time, engineers were non-existent in the plantation industry. The estate manager managed to operate the water pumps or generator using his engine driver who acted as his engineer for the minor engineering activities prevailing in the estates. The engineers came into the scene after the transition to oil palm as the mills needed engineers to operate the plants mainly due to the need for steam engineers to operate boilers. As the planters were mainly British, they had some fundamental knowledge about boilers as during the early days the ships plying between Britain and Malaya had steam boilers and turbines which later gave way to diesel engines. British boilers were world famous during those days.