TPM is located in the original for totally Productive maintenance. Today TPM is interpreted rather as totally Productive Manufacturing or totally Productive management in the sense of a comprehensive production system.

From the fundamental idea TPM is a program for the continuous improvement in all ranges of an enterprise. It concerns first of all the hunt for losses and Verschwendung with the goal from zero defects, zero losses, zero quality losses, zero accidents etc.

The complete extent of TPM contains eight different columns, which contain beginnings in each case for the elimination of the 16 losses.

Historical development

TPM finds its origin in the maintenance, when Japanese enterprises the so-called Preventive maintenance of the Americans took over. The objective existed in the avoidance of operating disturbances at plants. Over decades in Japan this objective was further pursued, from which different maintenance concepts resulted. These are introduced in the following. From the unification of the concepts mentioned that resulted today well-known TPM concept, which refers no longer only to the maintenance, but to the entire enterprise.

• until 1950: BREAK down maintenance (fire-brigade maintenance)
• 1951: To Japan the American Preventive maintenance is transferred (preventing plant maintenance)
• 1957: Emergence of Corrective maintenance (improvement of the plant hins. Reliability and efficiency)
• 1959: Emergence of maintenance Prevention (with purchase of the plant to maintenance friendliness pay attention)
• 1961: Emergence of Productive maintenance by unification of Preventive maintenance, Corrective maintenance and maintenance Prevention. Tasks of maintenance are incumbent on only the maintenance department
• 1969: Advancement of Productive maintenance too totally Productive maintenance. Tasks of maintenance are divided with the coworkers at the production line.

The eight columns of TPM

After the following eight columns Japan Institut OF certifies plans maintenance enterprise:

I. Continuous improvement

A goal: Application-oriented elimination of the 6 losses.

II. Autonomous maintenance

A goal: The plant operator is to accomplish inspection, cleaning and lubrications in first and in further steps also small maintenance work independently.

III. Planned maintenance

A goal: Sicherstellung of the 100%igen availability of the plants as well as documents of identification of Kaizen actions by the maintenance.

IV. Training and training

A goal: Coworker too meeting demand qualify for the improvement of the operating and maintenance qualifications.

V. Approach monitoring

A goal: To almost realize one senkrechte approach curve with new products and plants.

VI. Quality management

A goal: Realization "„zero - quality defects of a "“goal with products and plants.

VII. TPM within administrative ranges

A goal: Losses and Verschwendungen in directly not producing departments eliminate.

VIII. Industrial safety, environmental and health protection

A goal: The conversion of the zero - accidents demand in the enterprise.

The conversion of the individual columns orients itself at intermediate steps. Usually each column is converted by 7 steps.

Indiktoren of TPM

In order to in-add TPM effectively, indicators are indispensable, which form a yardstick for TPM activities. In principle any investment should be measurable by saved money, on which with certifying Japan Institut OF plans maintenance as well as the Centre the OF Excellence for TPM (CETPM) is always respected.

A well-known indicator within the TPM concept is the OEE (entire plant effectiveness). It is a measure for the losses, which develop at a plant.

That eight columns concept of TPM the following indicators are present, which must be adapted individually with each enterprise. However these indicators place the basis, in order to use TPM as enterprise-far production system:

• P for Productivity

(bspw. Productivity, creation of value per person, Quoute operating rate, disturbance reduction)

• Q for quality

(bspw. Number of process errors, number of defects, number of customer complaints)

• C for Costs

(bspw. Worker reduction, maintenance cost, energy costs)

• D for Delivery

(bspw. Stock quantity, peripheral speed)

• S for Safety

(bspw. Number of accidents, disease conditions, characteristic numbers concerning contamination)

• M for Morale

(bspw. Number of improvement suggestions, number of small's group meetings)

See also

• Pair of overalls equipment Effectiveness
• Net equipment Effectiveness

Related links

• Elements of the TOYOTA production system
• TPM - Teachings and research, the CETPM
• Empiric report in an enterprise

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