What is Total productive maintenance (TPM)? The five goals of TPM?

Total productive maintenance:

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Total productive maintenance (TPM) is ‘the productive maintenance carried out by all employees through small group activities’, where productive maintenance is ‘maintenance management which recognizes the importance of reliability, maintenance and economic efficiency in plant design. In Japan, where TPM originated, it is seen as a natural extension in the evolution from run-to-breakdown to preventive maintenance. TPM adopts some of the team working and empowerment principles as well as a continuous improvement approach to failure prevention. It also sees maintenance as an organization-wide issue to which staff can contribute in some way.

 The five goals of TPM:

TPM aims to establish good maintenance practice in operations through the pursuit of the five goals of TPM;

1- Improve equipment effectiveness by examining all the losses which occur.
2- Achieve autonomous maintenance by allowing staff to take responsibility for some of the maintenance tasks and for the improvement of maintenance performance.
3- Plan maintenance with a fully worked out approach to all maintenance activities.
4- Train all staff in relevant maintenance skills so that both maintenance and operating staff have all the skills to carry out their roles.
5- Achieve early equipment management by ‘maintenance prevention’ (MP), which involves considering failure causes and the maintainability of equipment during its design, manufacture, installation and commissioning.

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