Articles for 'Total Productive Maintenance' Category

TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE: How to successfully implement TPM?

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Total Productive Maintenance or so called TPM has been implemented around the world for many years, especially in Japan, Asia and US. In order to compete among each other, a company is very much interested to implement Total Productive Maintenance to ensure their daily production at maximum output. However, not every plant was successful in [...]

TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE: Why every plant in the world are very interested in Total Productive Maintenance?

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Thursday, September 24, 2009

Definition of TPM.
Total Productive Maintenance or so called TPM is a maintenance system applies to a machine in order to make it running or function at optimum as required. The total productive maintenance system is implemented by a small group consist of 5~6 members for a number of machines and area. Most important TPM must [...]

Total Productive Maintenance: 5 actions to keep machines at high effeciency.

By Sembangkilang - Last updated: Monday, September 7, 2009

As I mention before in my previous Total Productive Maintenance article, there are 7 main factors that contribute to machines breakdown. In this article I would like to share how this can be minimized. In Total Productive Maintenance there 5 main agenda or actions that put into focus in order to ensure the machines arerunning as required. The [...]