Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
WITH TPM

Organization, pillars, methodology and development plan

TPM evolved from the initial idea of an efficient equipment maintenance system, proposed by Nippon Denso in 1961, to an innovative system of industrial operations management, suggested by the new generation of consultants of the Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM). In The TPM Academy we have developed a training offer that covers the different TPM processes, understood as an innovative system of industrial management.

¿What is Total Productive Managment?

Total Productive Management (TPM) is an innovative system of industrial management, used to lead all the company's operations and the broad value chain integrated with those of other partner companies. Its essence consists in preventing the presence of all types of losses in the processes, through the active participation of all the people involved in the business operations. TPM intervention instruments are structured in fundamental processes or technical and human pillars.

TPM as an integrated process system

Vision of TPM as an integrated process system

Beyond a maintenance technique, we understand TPM as a system integrated by three types of highly interrelated processes: Fundamental processes or TPM pillars, behavioural and cultural change processes and processes that improve the management and leadership of the company's employees.

To get the best benefits from TPM, it is necessary to design a plan that addresses these three types of processes. Its development must be carried out simultaneously and in an integrated manner, with the development of the fundamental processes or TPM pillars as the central focus.

The power of TPM as a culture change strategy

Technological solutions alone are not enough to improve business results. The management of highly efficient production sites requires a change of working habits, especially those inherited from the era of command and control. Practices such as autonomous shop floor management, visual management, standardization, autonomous process control, information quality culture, and problem-solving are all practices that are now part of the new operational management.

TPM is an important instrument to introduce new practices and competencies that help to build a new work culture. Learning to delegate and empower operational staff (autonomy) to initially develop simple maintenance actions, for example, creates a new discipline of self-training and personal growth, useful for the introduction of more advanced technical and organizational concepts. TPM allows to building of new behaviors and to intervene in consciousness, a necessary step for cultural transformation.

Testimony

«I received excellent mentoring from the professionals at The TPM Academy, which enabled me to design machine reliability improvement strategies and focused me on the plan for the future development of a new, more effective maintenance model based on TPM.»

Joaquim Gallardo (Maintenance Manager - Tany Nature)