1 – Introduction to TPM
The Total Productive maintenance is a process that aims to improve maintenance processes and activities.
2 – The OEE
The OEE is the most well-known indicator. It will help prioritize actions and focus on the most important losses.
3 – Structuring the TPM approach
The TPM approach calls for a series of structured steps to ensure quality and increase the likelihood of success.
4 – The PM Prize
The PM Prize, awarded by the JIPM, is the Nobel Prize in the application of the principles and tools of the TPM.
5 – Reliability
Reliability is a concept that uses performance, costs but also the environment.
Pillar 1: Focused improvement – Kobetsu Kaizen
The first pillar of the TPM, the Kobetsu Kaizen aims to support a culture of improvement within the teams.
Pillar 2: Autonomous Maintenance of equipment-Jishu Hozen
Maintenance supports the development of operators ‘ skills and responsibilities to support the performance and operating condition of the equipment.
Pillar 3 : Planned Maintenance – Keikaku Hozen
Third pillar of the TPM, the planned maintenance is to move from a maintenance where one suffers the failures to a maintenance where they anticipate
Pillar 4: Improving knowledge and know-how
Pillar 4 aims to establish training and improve the skills of the teams.
Pillar 5: Mastery of product and equipment design
Phase 10 of the TPM approach, this pillar includes the improvement of the design of new equipment and the design of new products.
Pillar 6: Mastery of Quality – Hinshitsu Hozen
This pillar is oriented towards maintaining the quality level of the products. We seek to eliminate the causes of non-quality, so that every minute of the process time is a useful minute, producing a “good” product.
Pillar 7: Efficiency of related services or “TPM in offices”
In the overall vision of the TPM, the extension to the related services is intended to implement the same tools and methods used in production for all such “office” services.
Pillar 8: Safety, working conditions and environment
Safety and the environment are activities that are an integral part of the TPM approach.
The maintenance indicators
There is a whole array of maintenance indicators that will be used according to the maturity of our company. More generally, we will use only 3 or 4.
Standard definition of Maintenance
Etymologically, the term maintenance comes from the word “maintain” and the suffix “ance”. By simple definition of the dictionary, it is the actions that aim to maintain something in good condition.
RCM2
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM2) is a maintenance process optimization methodology that identifies the best maintenance strategy.