Total Productive Maintenance and Benchmarking
Seiichi Nakajima defined TPM an innovative approach to maintenance that optimizes equipment effectiveness, eliminates breakdowns, improves productivity and promotes autonomous maintenance by operators, through day-to-day activities involving entire work force. TPM is a culture, a philosophy and a new attitude towards maintenance. The total effectiveness is an indicator that is derived though equipment availability, performance efficiency and the rate of quality product. An organisation that believes in total maintenance system should be able to set up activities directed towards maintenance prevention, maintainability improvement and preventive/predictive maintenance. TPM involves wide range of activities involving proper operation, failure analysis, design improvement, cost benefit analysis, participation of operators in maintenance, positive attitude and culture across organisation and above all strong support and belief of Top management in TPM programme and the total participation of all employees in TPM.
Objectives
After studying this unit, you should be able to
- Explain what is Total Productive Maintenance(TPM),
- Relate TPM and TQM,
- Implement the philosophy of TPM,
- Explain the concept of Zero Defects, Zero Maintenance and Zero Accidents, and
- Understand and implement Kaizen with right outlook.