Total Productive Maintenance

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3. Corrective maintenance.

4. Maintenance prevention.

Introducing TPM at a production unit has four main steps:

Step 1: Preparatory stage.

– Announcement by top management to all about TPM

introduction in the organization.

– Initial education and publicity for TPM.

– Setting up TPM and departmental committees.

– Establishing the TPM working systems and target.

– A master plan for institutionalizing.

Step 2: Introduction stage.

Step 3: Implementation.

Step 4: Institutionalizing stage.

Common Targets for Lean, Six Sigma, and TPM: Different groups in

workplaces will have different targets. Some of the common targets

are shown below fo ...