Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or Tero-Technology

TPM developed in Japan, tero-technology in UK, Logistics in USA have the same goals. Terotechnology as per BSI is a combination of management financial, engineering & other practices applied to physical assets in pursuit of economic Life Cycle Costs (LCC). Its practice is concerned with the specification and design for reliability and maintainability of plant and machinery, equipment, buildings and structures with their installation, commissioning, maintenance modification and replacement with feedback of information on design performance and costs.

TPM aims to maximise equipment effectiveness. In fact this is same as terotechnology's goal of attaining an economic life cycle cost.

Logistics is an old military term referring to support to front line through procurement, storage, transportation and maintenance of manufactured goods and systems. In current methods, logistics consists of LCC, reliability engineering and maintenance engineering. Thus the goal of TPM, terotechnology and logistics is same as goal of LCC and they differ in terms of preuse target location and responsibility.

All the above explained concepts are summarized and tabulated in following Table.

                                     Table: The Maintenance Strategies and Their Central Themes