Total
Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program,
which involves a newly defined concept for maintaining
plants and equipment. The goal of the TPM program is to
markedly increase production while, at the same time,
increasing employee morale and job satisfaction. The TPM
program closely resembles the popular Total Quality Management
(TQM) program. Many of the same tools such as employee
empowerment, benchmarking, documentation, etc. are used
to implement and optimize TPM. This course will define
TPM in some detail, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses
as a maintenance philosophy, and discuss implementation
procedures. Examples of successfully implemented programs
will be presented
