The Benefits of Implementing Total Productive Maintenance
You are only as strong as your weakest link. While trite, this phrase embodies what manufacturing plants and processing facilities have worked to overcome for years. How do you plan for and prevent...
View ArticleAchieving Total Productive Maintenance without Supervisors
Several years ago I visited a state-of-the-art power plant that had a net generation of 260 megawatts, which is enough electricity to serve 75,000 homes. I was there for an executive meeting of the...
View ArticleProductivity Inc. Sponsors TPM Manager Certification Program
Middle- and top-level executives can now obtain certification in total productive maintenance (TPM) through a program sponsored by Productivity Inc. and the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State...
View ArticleThe Dirty Secrets of Total Productive Maintenance
Several years ago, a group called the Maintenance Excellence Roundtable met on the West Coast to present what it had accomplished during the previous year and where it was headed for the coming year....
View ArticleWhen Are OEM Recommendations Not Enough?
This is a commonly posed question in industry and is sometimes inversely worded as, “Are OEM recommendations enough?” It quite simply boils down to an evaluation of two underlying issues. First, what...
View ArticleAre you overlooking your plant's maintenance issues?
Are you overlooking your plant's maintenance issues? Are you covering them up or Band-Aiding them? This video slide show features photos from one plant that shows the myriad of maintenance issues that...
View ArticleBrady to offer online training on lockout/tagout compliance, visual workplace
This week, Brady Corporation announced the debut of its new eLearning training program, a series of Web-based training courses on workplace safety and productivity. Brady launched the eLearning...
View ArticleThe 5 biggest risks to effective asset management
According to the PAS-551 standard on asset management from the British Standards Institute, asset management is defined as: “systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an...
View ArticleThe three principles of TPM and Total Process Reliability
Marshall Institute provides this presentation on the key principles for Total Productive Maintenance and Total Process Reliability. You can find additional information from Marshall Institute at...
View ArticleThe five key elements of Total Productive Maintenance
Marshall Institute president Greg Folts discusses the five key elements of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). All five elements must be in place for an organization to achieve the full potential of...
View ArticleWhy you need to create a standard process for spare parts
What do you see in this picture? Besides a lack of any real 5-S, what thoughts come to your kaizen mind about the motors? Perhaps you may think about what are the motors used for? Do we really need...
View ArticleTPM and operator asset ownership: This is my equipment!
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) combines the traditionally American practice of preventive maintenance with total quality control and total employee involvement to create a culture where operators...
View ArticleTPM is most difficult of all lean tools to implement
It is important to understand up front that Total Productive Maintenance is the most difficult of all the “lean tools” to implement in companies for two reasons: A TPM implementation requires the...
View ArticleThis looks like a job for Total Productive Maintenance!
This video features photos of sub-standard working conditions on American plant floors. These situations would be greatly remedied with a renewed focus on maintenance, particularly Total Productive...
View ArticleHot new books from the Noria Bookstore
New from the Bookstore TPM Reloaded: Total Productive Maintenance Joel Levitt, April 2010Table of Contents Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension Third Edition Heinz P. Bloch and Allan R. Budris...
View ArticleAkzo Nobel teaches process improvement at boot camp
Akzo Nobel's Process-Centered Environment Practical Boot Camp puts attendees inside an industry-leading process-centered environment where you can see, hear and feel the concepts and tools that other...
View ArticleThe basics of Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program which involves a newly defined concept for maintaining plants and equipment. The goal of the TPM program is to markedly increase production...
View ArticleFootage of Total Productive Maintenance instructor course
Total Productive Maintenance is a manufacturing-led initiative that emphasises the importance of people, a "can do" and continuous improvement philosophy. TPM seeks to reshape the organization to...
View ArticleUnilever expands Total Productive Maintenance program with help of Informance
Informance International, a leader in manufacturing business and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions, announced March 8 that Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer packaged goods...
View ArticleHow to implement Total Productive Maintenance
As we conduct lean assessments at manufacturing facilities throughout the region, I have noticed organizations increasingly embracing lean concepts. But one key area that often falls by the wayside is...
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