What is TPM?
- 1. What is TPM? Total Productive Maintenance
- 2. The ultimate goal of TPM is to implement “perfect manufacturing” Shirose
- 3. TPM is based on teamwork and provides a method for the achievement of world class levels of overall equipment effectiveness through people and not through technology or systems alone. Wilmott
- 4. TPM is the general movement on the part of businesses to try to do more with less. Lawrence
- 5. TPM is an integrated life-cycle approach to factory maintenance and support. Blanchard
- 6. TPM is a program that addresses equipment maintenance through a comprehensive productive-maintenance delivery system covering the entire life of the equipment and involving all employees from production and maintenance personnel to top management. McKone & Schroeder
- 7. TPM is a methodology and philosophy of strategic equipment management focused on the goal of building product quality by maximizing equipment effectiveness. Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- 8. TPM is a production-driven improvement methodology that is designed to optimize equipment reliability and ensure efficient management of plant assets. Robinson & Ginder
- 9. TPM is intended to bring both functions (production and maintenance) together by a combination of good working practices, team working, and continuous improvement. Cooke
- 10. TPM is all of the strategies needed to sustain a healthy maintenance log. Steinbacher & Steinbacher
- 11. TPM permanently improves the overall effectiveness of equipment with the active involvement of operators. Hartmann
- 12. TPM aims at: 1. Establishing a corporate culture that will maximize production system effectiveness. 2. Organizing a practical shop-floor system to prevent losses before they occur throughout the entire production system life cycle, with a view to achieving zero accidents, zero defects and zero breakdowns. 3. Involving all the functions of an organization including production, development, sales and management. 4. Achieving zero losses through the activities of ‘overlapping small groups’. Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance