Evolution of TPM

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is the Japanese approach to maximise the effectiveness of the facility we use in Industry. Total Productive Maintenance, an innovative and non traditional approach to plant maintenance that is complementary with Total Quality Management (TQM), Just In Time (JIT), Total Employee Involvement (TEI) and Continuous Performance Improvement (CPI) and other world fame strategies like tero technology and logistics which lie in the pursuit of economic Life Cycle Cost (LCC).

The concept of Preventive Maintenance (PM) gave way to new need of the industry maintainability and Method Improvement (MI). This is made possible by predictive maintenance philosophy with condition and instrumentation to predict failure and plan maintenance strategy. Latest is Maintenance Prevention (MP) which incorporates equipment design stage that results in equipment's easy maintenance. The new concept of total productive maintenance makes use of these techniques to achieve optimal condition for production, quality yield and safety and maintain them. TPM advocates Overall Effectiveness of Equipment (OEE) through availability, performance and quantity. TPM aims at reducing major losses in the system throughout zero breakdowns, zero defects & zero accidents.