Relationship between TPM, Tero-Technology and Logistics

Terotechnology (developed in UK), logistics (in USA) and TPM (in Japan) have the same goals. Terotechnology as per BSI is a combination of management, engineering, financial and other practices applied to physical assets in pursuit of economic life cycle costs (LCC). Its practice is concerned with the specification & design for reliability and maintainability of plant and machinery, equipment, buildings and structures with their installation, maintenance modification, commissioning, 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, tero-technology and logistics is same as goal of LCC and they differ in terms of pre-use target location and responsibility.