An effective TPM program will dramatically improve equipment reliability and significantly extend equipment life-cycle. But implementing TPM demands a change in the way an organization interacts with its people, processes, and infrastructure. In this webcast, Ellis will define TPM and its role in Lean Manufacturing. He will also review each of the basic TPM pillars, and show how they support each other to drive meaningful cultural change and significant ROI gains.

TPM is a data-driven process designed to improve the productivity of your equipment. But how do you measure progress in equipment productivity? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is that measurement system. But there are many misconceptions about OEE. This webcast will cover the basics of OEE (including the 6 basic categories of losses), highlight proper and improper applications of the OEE metric, and provide proven approaches for eliminating or minimizing losses in each category. The webcast will also include an actual case study where we will calculate OEE, categorize losses and develop an improvement plan.

Many of today's organizations have TPM teams focusing on improvement activities. And in those environments things are changing, but are they getting better? How do you structure your TPM initiative, measure your progress, and ensure the plan is being executed correctly? How do you identify weaknesses in the process and develop countermeasures to keep everything on track? This session will review the practical management aspects of implementing TPM, including planning, training and auditing.

Make it visual! Learn how you can improve equipment performance and reliability; speed simplify routine maintenance; plus reduce equipment-specific training time by 60 to 80-percent.

In this webcast, Robert Williamson, author of "Lean Machines for World-Class Manufacturing & Maintenance" will show visual machine methods that have been successfully applied in many different industrial environments. The visual examples in this session are based on several decades of work in hundreds of facilities. As part of the webcast, Brady Corp. will also demo their new printing solution for creating multicolor gauge labels, oil level indicators and other visual controls that can be used to simplify PM's and identify operating abnormalities at a glance.