Maintenance system covering the life of all equipment: planning, manufacturing, maintenance and improving performance. OEE is a metric for defining equipment effectiveness in a TPM program.

Total productive maintenance. A series of methods, originally pioneered by Nippondenso (a member of the Toyota group), to ensure every machine in a production process is always able to perform its required tasks so that production is never interrupted.

Total Productive Management. Total Productive Management is a process in place at the Heineken Group, which is based on but goes further than CIP. Unlike CIP, TPM includes a zero-defects strategy to be implemented in the production system.

Total Productive Maintenance. 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, an approach that leads to increased equipment availability by reducing downtime due to failure and unplanned (emergency) repairs.

TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE. Total productive maintenance aims at maximizing equipment effectiveness and uptime throughout the entire life of the equipment.

See Total Productive Maintenance.

Total productive maintenance. 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.

Total Productive Maintenance. A maintenance philosophy. TPM is usually profiled for the strong operator involvement in equipment care.

Abbreviation for total productive maintenance.

Trusted Platform Module. The set of functions and data that are common to all types of platform, which must be trustworthy if the Subsystem is to be trustworthy; a logical definition in terms of protected capabilities and shielded locations.

A security chip that's bound to a computer's motherboard and provides enhanced protection against information exposure. Among other things, TPM—which stands for Trusted Platform Module—authenticates and protects user passwords, safeguards e-mail communications and file transfers, and encrypts files to defend against hackers.

Trigger Price Mechanism. A U.S. system for monitoring imported steel to identify imports that are possibly being "dumped" in the United States or subsidized by the governments of exporting countries. The minimum price under this system is based on the estimated landed cost at the U.S. port of entry of steel produced by the world's most efficient producers. Imported steel entering the United States below that price may "trigger" formal anti-dumping investigations by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. The TPM was in effect between early 1978 and March 1980. It was reinstated in October 1980 and suspended in January 1982. Between April 1982 and June 1988 TPM was used for imports of stainless steel round wire only. See also: Dumping, Export Subsidies, Sensitive Products, Subsidy, U.S. International Trade Commission