Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) helps create a Lean enterprise by providing a structure in which team-based activities drastically reduce breakdowns, defects and other equipment-related losses. The result is an environment where people and machines are capable of delivering exactly what customers want, when they want it.

The goals of TPM are Zero Breakdowns, Zero Accidents and Zero Defects: performance, safety and quality. TPM’s team approach brings together production, maintenance and engineering knowledge to assure reliability, maintainability and high performance. TPM prepares operators to do some equipment care independently of the maintenance staff, freeing skilled trades for more specialized activities like preventive maintenance, predictive programs and new equipment planning and design.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Pillars:

• Autonomous Maintenance
• Focused Improvements
• Planned Maintenance
• Technical Training
• Quality Maintenance
• Early Equipment Management
• Environmental and Safety Management
• Office TPM

Productivity applies the TPM approach developed by Seiichi Nakamura, the father of TPM, adapted to the U.S. culture and enriched with over 20 years of implementation experience.

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