Access your untapped potential with the TPM production system
Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a production system that is designed to eliminate the 8 wastes that are defined by lean management. These are:
- Transport
- Inventory
- Motion
- Waiting
- Overproduction
- Overprocessing
- Defects
- Skills (Unused)
Total Productive Maintenance
In working to eliminate these wastes, total productive maintenance is based on several pillars:
- Remedying plant losses
- Autonomous maintenance by Production
- Planned maintenance programmes
- Education and training
- Maintenance-focused machinery/plant planning
How we introduce the production system at your company
We implement the TPM production system as a four-step process:
- Design:
Collecting basic data, educating participants, specifying content for total productive maintenance boards, designing the project plan (days and priorities) - Implementation phase::
Developing synergies between departments
Project start on a pilot machine
Working with PPS, 5S and SMED
Selection and training of internal experts - Process improvement:
Coaching for all affected cost centre managers, heads of department, production supervisors
Setup of an audit system
Introduction of defect tags
Inclusion of flagship projects - Long-term planning and upkeep:
Schulung und Durchführung der Audits,
Training and completion of audits
Standardisation of methods introduced
Setup of a reporting system Inclusion of other lean tools: kanban, continuous flow
