Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Chris Bujak • April 21, 2021

Learn how to help teams get involved in creating/improving maintenance operations and processes resulting in equipment reliability, less labor, and more capacity! This education includes 5 strategies (pillars) to proactively apply preventative maintenance processes to maximize the operational efficiency of equipment.

total productive maintenance - TPM

Goal of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM):

To increase TPM pillar knowledge, skills, and ability to use TPM to create more team productivity, safety, and equipment effectiveness.

Benefits:

  • Reduce the “Six Big Losses” of equipment utilization (unplanned outages, brief stops, running at low rate, production defects, reduced yield, and setup).
  • Improve equipment effectiveness, productivity, capacity, and safety, and continue progress to a culture of improvement.
  • Build teamwork, ownership and understanding in the equipment management and understanding of the equipment capabilities.
Total productive maintenance benefits

Agenda: 

Training: 

Training in the WHAT, WHY and HOW of TPM, including its concepts, losses that are addressed, strategies (“pillars”) that are used to make improvement, measures of performance, a roadmap for implementation and a project template to guide success. Participants bring a scenario to class on which to focus and practice.

Module 1: 3 days classroom training 

  • Understanding the what, why, and how of Total Productive Maintenance
  • Chartering the effort and creating the case for change 
  • Measuring (baseline, target, and trending progress)
  • Building the TPM team 
  • Communicating the case for change
  • Applying details of TPM Pillars and the roadmap to establish: Autonomous maintenance
  • Application (one month) 

Module 2: 2 days classroom training 

  • Applying details of TPM Pillars and the roadmap to establish: Focused improvement
  • Applying details of TPM Pillars and the roadmap to establish: Planned maintenance
  • Application (one month) 

Module 3: 2 days classroom training

  • Applying details of TPM Pillars and the roadmap to establish: Quality maintenance
  • Applying details of TPM Pillars and the roadmap to establish: Early equipment management / maintenance design


Application and Coaching:  One-on-one coaching until results are achieved.

Certification: Participation in this course and completion of 1 project = Continuous Improvement TPM Black Belt