Total productive maintenance meaning a process to enhance the productivity.

Definition of total productive maintenance

Maintain a system or machine by both Operator and Technician is called Total Productive maintenance.(Both operation and maintenance department.)

Total productive maintenance meaning
Total productive maintenance meaning

Total productive maintenance(TPM) is a process of identify and eliminate the loss.

Benefits of TPM

  • It Improves the business result.
  • Creates a pleasant work environment.
  • Improves quality of peoples.

Purpose of TPM

Purpose of TPM
Purpose of TPM

8 Pillar Of TPM

  1. Focused Improvement
  2. Autonomous Maintenance
  3. Planned Maintenance
  4. Education & Training
  5. Development management
  6. Quality maintenance
  7. Safety,Health and Environment
  8. TPM in Office

Focused Improvement

This Pillar focused on Zero Loss by efficient utilization of equipment,human resources,materials and energy.

Major Losses in Production system.
  • Equipment Failure
  • Shutdown
  • Process failure
  • Normal Production loss
  • Abnormal production loss
  • Quality defect
  • Production adjustment
  • Reprocessing

OEE-Overall Equipment effectiveness

The efficiency of equipment is measured in terms of OEE.

OEE calculation- Based on Availability,Performance rate and quality rate of the equipment.

Autonomous Maintenance

This is the process of developing the operator to be able to take care of routine maintenance.

This pillar prevent the equipment deterioration.

Maintenance Steps
  • Perform initial cleaning.
  • Equipment inspection.
  • Process inspection.
  • Maintain 5S.
  • Address any abnormal in equipment.

Planned Maintenance

The purpose of the pillar is to maintain the equipment in best condition for uninterrupted production.

This can be developed by following steps.

  • Perform periodic maintenance.
  • Perform predictive maintenance.
  • Evaluate the current condition of equipment.

Education & Training

This pillar improve the potential of every employee.It enhance the knowledge and skills of worker.

Development management

This process reduce the future maintenance cost.This activity is taken in design and development stage.

If some error occur in machine continuously then it can be remove by changing the design.

Quality maintenance

This pillar is to achieve zero customer complaints and defects.

Safety,Health and Environment

This pillar helps to eliminate human error and accident.And also responsible to create pollution free environment.

The main objective of this pillar is to achieve “ZERO ACCIDENT”.

TPM in Office

This pillar indicates the practice of TPM in administrative office and all support office.

The main purpose of this pillar is to backing up the production activity.

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