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Description of Total Productive Maintenance. Explanation. |
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Definition Total Productive Maintenance. Description.
Total Productive Maintenance is a proactive and collective manufacturing approach to maximize the effectiveness of equipment, machines or entire production sites.
Instead of waiting until a machine actually breaks down and calling the assistance of maintenance or repair personnel (Breakdown Maintenance), machine operators themselves ("Autonomous Maintenance") perform routine maintenance tasks ("Preventive Maintenance"). On top of that, maintenance operators perform equipment modifications that will improve its reliability. These modifications are also incorporated into new equipment. This is called Maintenance Prevention.
The combination of this preventive maintenance and maintenance prevention is called "Productive Maintenance".
Typical for Total Productive Maintenance is that all employees are being involved in the effort to improve equipment and machine availability.
The main target of TPM is to maximize plant and equipment effectiveness to achieve the optimum life cycle cost of production equipment. Important side effects are safety, hygiene and environment. Hence the motto of TPM: "Zero error, zero work-related accident, and zero loss".
Also called "Total Productive Manufacturing". Forum
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