6 Effective Principle for Total Productive Maintenance- (TPM)

1. Improving equipment effectiveness by targeting the major losses

TPM activity should focus on result. One of the fundamental measure used in TPM is overall Equipment effectiveness which includes he six major losses that TPM seeks to eliminate.

1  2.   Involving operators in the daily, routine maintenance of their equipment.

     The Operator involvement must be in accordance to the work culture existing in your organization. There are tasks that operator can do without ant tools. For Example, cleaning and inspecting the equipment. This is the most natural thinking that operator learn without the need of any tools or special skills. The maintenance personal can help the operator in this task of what to look and listen for.


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1  3.  Involving maintenance efficiency and effectiveness

This exercise means improving all aspects of maintenance including spare parts, computerized maintenance management system, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, maintenance tool, work order system, planned and scheduled maintenance and equipment histories.

Maintenance improvement must start with good management process. To make maintenance resource more productive require implementation of appropriate planning method, organisational structure, control system, material control techniques, information management system, and measurement and control techniques, so as to optimally manage and control the maintenance resource such as labor, material and capital. It must be remembered that maintenance alone cannot do it. Both production and maintenance must share the basic responsibilities which each should exercise in tandem with each other to get what they all want to achieve.

1   4.  Training to improve skill everyone involved

      One of the most important basic training need for TPM is design to help people     involved understand what TPM is and why is do important for the equipment and   business. Other training need include maintenance training, operations training,   leadership training, root cause analysis training, reliability training etc.  In fact   training should address the basic need of the people and equipment targeted got TPM.

1   5.  Life cycle equipment management and maintenance prevention design.

      While designing of new equipment of effecting major modification in the existing   equipment. Involvement of all those who are going to operate and maintain the   equipment for next 5, 10, 15 year in this process is a must. They can give their   valuable ideas to improve the design which will be easier to operate.

      6. Winning with Teamwork focused on common goal.

      Even the best equipment cannot perform consistently without focused on common g   goal,. In This context of TPM team work center on the targeted equipment and then   expands through all area using TPM to improve their performance.

       All the six element put together into regular use in the plant to improvement   equipment performance and reliability is the true meaning and application of TPM.   Theses six principle are interrelated and all support one another, Very open TPM is   mistaken for an operator doing the regular maintenance job or autonomous   maintenance which is only one key principle of TPM>. Using only principle without t   the other will not give the result. Which are ling lasting. In fact this key to success of   TPM. Use all the key principle and focus on result.

  • Capsuled Note: Maintaining equipment in its optimal stat and continually improving productivity is the whole strategy behind TPM. If we only fix breakdown, the machine will soon break down again. We must Put in place a system that maintains the desire machine state