Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance is a much misunderstood topic, that when deployed correctly has the potential to be a organisation-wide management system. With its origins in Japan, TPM has for over 40 years given many of the world’s best companies a competitive edge. Our Principal Consultant, Stuart Veitch, was the joint-first non-Japanese TPM Excellence Award Assessor as accredited by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM). Within TPM there are 8 core work streams (Pillars), these are shown below:
Focused Improvement is a structured team-based improvement activity linked back to a loss analysis.
Within its seven steps Autonomous Maintenance aims to increase operator ownership of their equipment.
Ensuring the we have the right skills and capabilities throughout the Organisation.
Striving to achieve zero breakdowns through breakdown elimination and prevention.
Learning the lessons from previous product and process introduction and utilising preventative techniques to achieve vertical ramp up.
Building on the foundations that the first four pillars give, Quality Maintenance links the process inputs to the quality of output aiming to prevent all defects.
Striving to achieve zero accidents through accident elimination and prevention.
Losses don’t just occur in the manufacturing process, there are many losses in the administrative functions as well. Learn how TPM can be applied in this environment.