Productive maintenance carried out by all employees. It is based on the principle that equipment improvement must involve everyone in the organization, from line operators to top management.
An integrated set of activities aimed at maximizing equipment effectiveness by involving everyone in all departments at all levels, typically through small group activities. TPM usually entails implementing the 5 S System, measuring the six big losses, prioritizing problems, and applying problem solving with the goal of achieving Zero breakdowns.
Total productive maintenance aims at maximizing equipment effectiveness and uptime throughout the entire life of the equipment.
Where first line maintenance, cleaning, checking for irregularities, leaks etc., and simple maintenance, become the responsibility of operators rather than of the maintenance department.
A concept of productive maintenance aimed at achieving overall effectiveness of the production system through the involvement of all the people in the organization.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program concept, which brings maintenance into focus in order to minimize downtimes and maximize equipment usage. The goal of TPM is to avoid emergency repairs and keep unscheduled maintenance to a minimum.
Activity that targets zero downtime of machinery/equipment, zero defects and zero accidents by the pro-active identification of potential problems
Step directed towards the ?hardware? which aims at obtaining a better availability of the equipment. It stresses the operation of the machines and the manner of ensuring its maintenance in order to maximize its effectiveness during the whole life of equipments.
A maintenance philosophy. TPM is usually profiled for the strong operator involvement in equipment care.
Preventive maintenance plus continuing efforts to adapt, modify, and refine equipment to increase flexibility, reduce material handling, and promote continuous flows. It is operator-oriented maintenance with the involvement of all qualified employees in all maintenance activities.
Total Productive Maintenance is not the same as a maintenance department that repairs breakdowns (breakdown maintenance). TPM is a critical adjunct to lean manufacturing. If machine uptime is not predictable and if process capability is not sustained, we cannot produce at the velocity of sales.
