Facilities directors are a busy lot. Emergencies seem to arise from nowhere, and coordinating a response takes quick thinking and good leadership skills. It is little wonder, then, that day-to-day maintenance is often put on a backburner. Sadly, the more frequently time and resources are diverted from maintenance to handle emergencies, the more emergencies you [...]
Author: Drew D. Troyer, Cre, Cmrp In the July/August 2006 issue of Reliable Plant magazine, I wrote an editorial entitled “Zen and the Art of Operator Maintenance.” In this article, I offered my views on involving operators in the plant reliability management equation. I suggested that the best place to start is to get [...]
All task and activities that we want to do must have a reason and purpose. This shall include total productive maintenance activity. But before we answer why do we need total productive maintenance or so caled TPM let us ask 1 question. Are machines design to breakdown? Of course not. If not nobody or factory [...]
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 [...]
