Total Productive Maintenance
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How to justify the high cost of implementation?
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RE: Total Productive Maintenance
"PREDICTIVE" Maintenance Engineeing
How to justify the high cost of implementation?
Think Long Term Protection, Performance and Savings
REDUCE - Equipment Down or Out of Service Time
REDUCE - Lubricant Inventory Requirements
ELIMINATE - Premature Equipment Failures
REDUCE - Energy and Fuel Consumption
REDUCE - Hazardous Waste Lubricants
STREAMLINE - Maintenance Protocols
REDUCE - Waste Disposal Expenses
MAXIMIZE - Equipment Service Life
EXTEND - Lubricant Drain Intervals
REDUCE - Man Hour Requirements
REDUCE - Capital Expenditures
INCREASE - Production
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RE: Total Productive Maintenance
Back to the basics, TPM starts when the operator is responsible for cleaning his machinery, fixing small problems, and calling in help when he notices abnormal things.
Steven van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr
RE: Total Productive Maintenance
For a start you just don't implement TPM.
It is a migration and evolution in the manner in which you do business.
All facets of the organization have an integral part in TPM especially operators. They will perform task which traditionally belonged to maintenance. Three steps:
1) Work together to improve equipment effectiveness
(Total Process Reliability)
2) Discipline. An evolution on how people treat "THEIR EQUIPMENT" (Ownership at the operator level)
3) Education and Training. Operators trained to perform non-traditional tasks. (Pre-emtive)
You will need a champion (Relentless)
You will need to bench mark. (Set Goals, small at first, baby steps)
Feel your businesses pulse. (Get baseline data against bench mark)
Create metrics to measure progress. i.e.:
Asset Utilization
Maintenance costs as a % of RAV
% Reactive work vs. PdM and PM's
Top Ten paredo chart on equipment downtime (Bad Actors)
Create a visual factory
Develop "Pit Stop" like turn arounds.
For great information on TPM, feel free to contact,
Robert M. Williamson
Strategic Work Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 337
Mill Spring, NC 28756
Ph. (704) 894-5338
RE: Total Productive Maintenance
The use of TPM is helpful to schedule maintence instead of unpredictable breakdown and work stoppages. If you are trying to sell the idea to a customer or to a company that has never tried a TPM program, start with the two basic questions; what if your production line goes down unexpectently due to machine failure and what if you could schedule down time for maintenence of your equipment. The details of starting a TPM program in a facility are not rocket science and involve instituting proceedures and winning the hearts and minds of operators, supervision and upper management so they will support the project whole heartedly. Start with common sense stuff and as this takes root then introduce into the system so more complicated procedures and follow the KISS (keep it simple)method of winning folks over to the idea. Text documents with color photographs work well for floor operators. Supervision needs to be shown how it will increase production and make their headaches become less frequent. Upper Management will need to see an improvement in lead times for customer orders, through put of product and the bottom line. Visual management tools can help to get your ideas across to the manufacturing floor and to upper management.
Good Luck,
Tim Pearce
Manufacturing Tech
Vermont American Corp
Greenville NC
tim.pearce@vermontamerican.com
timborg@mybluelight.com
RE: Total Productive Maintenance
Total Production Maintenance by Terry Wireman
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Developing Key Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance by Terry Wireman
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Uptime: Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management
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RE: Total Productive Maintenance
Angela Hodgkins