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TPM

Total Productive Maintenance ( TPM )

Introduction to TPM and the Course

Total Productive Maintenance is an approach to addressing process and manufacturing equipment losses including; breakdowns, accidents, set-up time, process adjustments, defects, etc. TPM implementation can lead to major process and manufacturing cost reductions, enabling organisations to be better placed to survive in the increasingly competitive global markets.

TPM enables the auto-maintenance approach which ensures appropriate and effective efforts are expended since the machine is wholly the domain of one person or team. This makes TPM a crucial adjunct to Lean. It is a proactive approach, that primarily aims to prevent any kind of problems before they occur. Its key aim being: zero error, zero work-related accident, and zero loss.

Maintenance can often be considered a non-value adding, non revenue earning activity but the lack of it will fairly soon affect income and the ability to satisfactorily complete tasks on time. It is perhaps because it is seen as non revenue earning that often there is a lack of attention to this area and the issues associated with breakdown and downtime. Traditionally, maintenance is the province of the maintenance department; operators have no role to play other than to report a problem or breakdown. TPM is about changing these attitudes. On a maintenance evolutionary scale; maintenance and the need for it has always been necessary. The next maintenance evolution step was planned preventive maintenance (ppm) which has been around for about 40 years. TPM is the next natural evolution and extension of ppm. Beyond TPM - possibly ‘Six Sigma’.

Free copy Quality Management (Tools and Techniques) provided to each course delegate

Business Benefits

Course delegates will be able to as a consequence of this course:

Be aware of the aims, objectives and benefits of TPM.
Be capable of conducting a TPM initiative
Coherently answer questions regarding the TPM.
Provides the opportunity to make real major financial saving through QM&T's pre and post course supported TPM assignment scheme.
Be QM&T validated and certificated as a TPM practitioner.

Who Should Attend?

Maintenance and Service Engineers wishing to introduce, implement and maintain a successful TPM initiative.
Facilities Managers
Senior Management
Process Designers and Engineers

Course Structure

Items covered include:

Maintenance Prevention
Preventative Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance
Process Change Over Reduction
Spares Control
5S
Test Commissioning and Acceptance Trials (TCAT)

5-Why's
Standard Operating Procedures
Autonomous Teamworking
Training and Development
Critical Process Identification
Action Planning

Preventive-Maintenance (P-M) Analysis
Cause and Effect Analysis
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Loss Reporting
Overall Equipment Effectiveness ( OEE )
Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM)

Lecturers

The lecturing team is comprised of professionals who have been especially selected for their recognised knowledge and experience in the field of Risk Analysis, quality assurance training and consultancy.

Course Dates & Cost

See Training Courses for price list and order form for a one day course at the QM&T Training centre.