- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a system of organized group activities to improve equipment effectiveness.
- Users and operators are responsible for the routine inspection, maintenance, and upkeep of their machines, as well as minor repairs.
- TPM is the best way to enhance performance of longterm availability of machine.
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Total Productive
Maintenance
(TPM) used to
fight losses such
as:
- Breakdowns
- Slow running or small stops
- Defects
- Accidents
- Reduced yield
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
TPM Steps
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1. Select a Machine for TPM.
2. Identify Team
3. Identify list of challenges.
4. Tie a tag for each problem.
5. Assign responsibility for each team
6. Monitor OEE
7. Set target for OEE
8. Meet once/weekly to review the action
Pillars of TPM
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TPM's eight
pillars are
primarily
concerned with
proactive and
preventative
techniques for
increasing
equipment
effectiveness.
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Autonomous
Maintenance
Operators are responsible for routine maintenance such as cleaning, lubricating, and inspection - Planned Maintenance Schedules maintenance activities based on predicted and/or measured failure rates.
- Quality Maintenance/ Integration Integrate error detection and prevention into the manufacturing processes. Use Root Cause Analysis to remove repeated sources of quality defects.
- Focused Improvement Encourage groups of employees to proactively work to enhance equipment operation on a regular or incrementalbasis.
- Early Equipment Management Acquired practical experience and understanding of manufacturing equipment are used to improve the design of new machinery.
- Training and Education It involves training of operators, maintenance workers, and managers to learn TPM techniques to meet TPM objectives.
- Safety, health and Environment Good maintenance management prevents injuries during the maintenance and leads to the well-being and safety of all employees.
- TPM in Administration Instead of leaving it to the "worker bees," administrative staff and managers should also join TPM activities
TPM & OEE
Expert's Comment
- TPM one of the key tools of Lean Management. A powerful and it can change the whole efficiency of the entire manufacturing line itself as many times TPM machines will also be pacemaker process in many manufacturing lines.
- If you just give a thought OEE is so very well-thought-out metric. The metric OEE is an indication of what to expect from the machine. If OEE is 90% means if the full load capacity is 1000 the machine is capable of producing 900 good part.