Maintenance Miracle an Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event

Why do you need TPM?

TPM is the foundation of equipment/process reliability and reliability is the enabler to Lean.
TPM/AM Goals

  • Zero accidents
  • Zero unplanned downtime
  • Zero speed losses
  • Zero defects
  • Minimum life cycle costs

PM/AM raises APQ (availability, performance, quality).

  • 67% reduction in unplanned downtime
  • 67% increase in equipment/process performance efficiency (that’s free capacity!)
  • 70% reduction in maintenance (fix/repair) costs

Program Description

Autonomous Maintenance (AM) is the foundation of TPM and the focus of the Maintenance Miracle event. AM is not really a miracle, but a proven process that partners operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, and leaders in the operation and maintenance of equipment.

In this 3½ day event, participants will gain an understanding of the seven steps of Autonomous Maintenance and the fundamental techniques of 5S and Visual Controls and develop the skills to stabilize equipment performance and stop deterioration by learning to:

  • Construct, Perform, and Adhere to cleaning, inspection and lubrication
    (CIL) standards.
  • Create one-point lessons (OPL).
    • Basic information OPL which ensures adherence to standard work.
    • Improvement Bulletin OPL which documents and allows horizontal
      expansion of new best practices as they are discovered.
  • Identify equipment abnormalities.
  • Identify and create equipment improvements/contamination controls.

Working in teams alongside associates from the host facility, participants will apply the methods learned to equipment in the workplace which reinforces the learning that has taken place during the classroom sessions through actual application.

At the conclusion of the event, you will understand the techniques and have the skills to begin an autonomous maintenance effort in your facility.

Created to teach the 7-steps of Autonomous Maintenance and demonstrate a process for conducting AM Steps 1-3 in your facility.


Curriculum


Tuesday 

Day 1 activities include:

Classroom Instruction

  • Overview of the TPM strategy and competitive advantage
  • TPM exercise and discussion on vision and “zero” goals
  • Autonomous Maintenance Step 1: Conducting the Initial Cleaning and Inspection
  • Equipment Team assignments.

Hands on Activity

  • Shop-Floor Implementation of Autonomous Maintenance Step 1

Wednesday
Day 2 activities include:

Classroom Instruction

  • Team progress reports
  • Five why analysis
  • One point lessons
  • Autonomous Maintenance Step 2: Eliminating Contamination and Inaccessible Areas
  • Autonomous Maintenance Step 3: Establishing Provisional Standards

Hands on Activity

  • Shop-Floor Implementation – continue Step 1, apply Steps 2 and 3

Thursday
Day 3 activities include:

Classroom Instruction

  • Team progress reports
  • Autonomous Maintenance Step 4: General Inspection Development and Training, Step 5: Conducting General Inspections, and Step 6: Workplace Management and Control
  • Discussion of Step 7: Advanced Improvement Activities

Hands on Activity

  • Shop-Floor Implementation – continue Steps 1-3

Dinner and Team Presentation Preparation


Friday 
Team Presentations
12:00pm Workshop adjourns

Full curriculum is available in the event brochure.*

In this session, participants will learn:

  • The role of autonomous maintenance in a Total Productive Maintenance program.
  • The value of team-based equipment care.
  • The seven steps of Autonomous Maintenance and how to apply
    them to improve equipment and process reliability.
  • To create Provisional Standards – the new equipment care standards.
  • How to create One Point Lessons.
  • How to make minor improvements to equipment design to make it easier
    to maintain.
  • How identifying and correcting equipment abnormalities will make
    equipment safer.
  • The yellow and blue tag system that perpetuates the process of abnormality identification, correction and low-cost equipment enhancement.
  • To successfully transfer the “ownership” of the equipment
    to the production staff.
  • How to build diagnostic and problem-solving skills.

Walt Miller, former Operations Excellence Coach with Cummins Inc. has been a long-time supporter of this program. Here’s how he describes the benefits he and his teams have derived from attending…

“As we continue to struggle in manufacturing to be competitive against challengers from
all over the globe it is critical for us as leaders to get every bit of value out of our equipment, our process, and our people.

I have been to six Maintenance Miracles. We have brought with us members of our team
that we have identified as key to our implementation of our TPM program. This group of folks range from operators, maintenance support members, senior and mid-level managers, and engineers. With this kind of diversity of people it is critical that the program address each and every one of their needs in supporting and understanding TPM.

I believe your program does this. The combination of half the time in the classroom and half in actual hands-on exercise is key. My team comes away from the event inspired and knowledgeable on how to implement TPM back in the plant.”


What past attendees are saying…

“Very instructive and well-run event. Having the ability to implement the tools we were
learning created an ideal platform to learn the principle to applying TPM in our own facility.”
Monte Goins – TPM Coordinator – Crown Equipment

“I’ve learned it is way cheaper to be proactive.”
Jeff Pleinis – Turning Center Lead – Goodrich

“In the 40 years of maintenance this was the one to attend. Excellent job by the instructor.
The host plant was great.”
John Akins – Maintenance Team Manager – Sun Products Corp.

“Very good in applying principles of TPM and emulating the process in a manufacturing environment—hands on.  Re-emphasizes the importance of the “human factor” in attaining reliability.”
Tim Davis – Engineering Manager—Continuous Improvement – Ventura Foods

 

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