TPM, known as Total Productive Maintenance in China, is a maintenance workflow, but also a production site equipment for the daily "cold medical technology". Its purpose is to improve productivity.
TPM makes equipment maintenance and repair a routine part of factory management, rather than something unrelated to production. Maintenance downtime is scheduled to become part of the workday rather than being considered a production standbyTPM can even be a complete part of the production process in some cases. This is done to minimize losses from unforeseen circumstances and unplanned maintenance work.
Second, TPM small case
A company is a printing company, mainly packaging corrugated boxes, screen printing and traditional offset printing business. 2 years ago, the company introduced a set of fully automated needle-jet printing equipment, in the very competitive printing market, this set of equipment does play a big role. The company's top management decided to introduce a few more units.
Then the company encountered an unexpected problem with a joint venture project it was negotiating with an overseas company. The other party raised a lot of "unacceptable" questions about the company's factory management: the equipment was too unclean, there were always problems with the equipment, the maintenance staff was too busy, and the employees stood on the sidelines, etc.
The company's management was very concerned that the equipment was not clean, the equipment was always in trouble, and the maintenance staff was busy.
In the terms of cooperation, the investor insisted on including the introduction of modern TPM as a necessary condition in the contract. At first, the company's management felt that the other party was a bit "meddlesome". "If you have the goods, just give it to you, what do you care about how the whole thing comes out!" Company managers think that these things are too unnecessary, the equipment is not clean and manufacturing products have what to do? However, in order to cooperation can be carried out smoothly, the company still full of promise. A few months passed, the company did these "idle", and after that, there is a sense of transformation.
Because the equipment is scrubbed every day, its faults become less, the staff's work motivation has increased; because of the daily inspection of equipment, several employees have a wealth of knowledge of the equipment than the maintenance workers, they hear the sound of anomalies know where the fault is.
After this incident, the company decided to vigorously implement TPM in the whole plant.
Content extracted from: Tianhangjian Consulting