Total productive maintenance TPM

Combining the practice of preventive maintenance and total quality control and total employee involvement results in an innovative system for equipment maintenance that optimizes effectiveness, eliminates breakdowns, and promotes autonomous operator maintenance through day-to-day activities. This concept known as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was conceived by Seiichi Nakajima and is well-documented in his book Introduction of TPM and is highly recommended reading for all involved in the maintenance area. 

The items listed under the category of operator-driven reliability are fairly self-evident. The intent is to increase operators ownership of their equipment and its reliability. The process encompasses many of the activities of total productive maintenance (TPM). Three key areas of focus are ... 

In the remainder of this chapter, we first provide a more detailed discussion of JIT/TPS in Section 2, including its philosophy and implementation issues. In Section 3, we examine the kanban system, widely used in JIT for control of production and inventory, and present a case study of JIT/kanban implementation. Section 4 follows with an examination of JIT s relation to complementary approaches such as total quality management (TQM) and total productive maintenance (TPM), together with a case study of their joint implementation. In Section 5, we examine lean production as an extension of JIT, explore the relationship of JIT to theory of constraints (TOC), and conclude with a brief consideration of applications to service industries of JIT, TOC, and other manufacturing-based approaches. 

Like JIT, total quality management (TQM) and total productive maintenance (TPM) are managerial models that were formulated and systematized in Japan. Each of these managerial paradigms is made... 

JUST-IN-TIME, LEAN PRODUCTION, AND COMPLEMENTARY PARADIGMS 553 4.3. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)... 

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) A world-class metric that originated from the total productive maintenance (TPM) movement, which evaluates critical equipment in terms of equip-... 

Continuous reliability improvement is the application of the traditional rehabdity centered maintenance (RCM) processes, using the best from total productive maintenance (TPM) and going beyond... 

Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance-improvement program concept and philosophy that resembles total quality management (TQM). The TPM movement has excellent objectives ... 

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Total productive maintenance (TPM)—Preventive maintenance plus continuing efforts to adapt, modify, and refine equipment to increase flexibility, reduce material handling, and promote continuous flows. It is operator-oriented maintenance with the involvement of all qualified employees in all maintenance activities. 

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) A systematic approach for minimizing machine downtime resulting from unexpected breakdowns, TPM emphasizes the role of the machine operator — who becomes more involved with routine checks and fine-tuning. TPM enables machinery to operate more efficiently and reliably, decreasing the risk of a broken link in the supply chain. 

Total productive maintenance (TPM) - the aim is to assure maximum equipment up-time at minimum cost, and to drive dependability of operations. 

Total productive maintenance (TPM) It requires factory management to improve asset utilization by the systematic study and elimination of major obstacles — known as the six big losses — to efficiency. The six big losses in manufacturing are breakdown, set up and adjustment, minor stoppages, reduced speed, quality defects, and start up and shut down. 

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) A series of methods, originally pioneered to ensure that every machine in a production process is always able to perform its required tasks so that production is never interrupted. 

The recent Preventive Maintenance (PM) developments have seen to have a more generic framework with an aim of maximising the profitability of a working system, which is also demonstrated by another maintenance management approach Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) developed by Nakajima of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) (Nakajima (1997)). In such a philosophy of maximising profitability, different elements such as down time, cost, safety criticality may need to be studied together. 

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