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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 be involved by all levels in addition from top level including Directors to bottom level.

So why every plant in the world is very interested in total productive maintenance?

It is very simple actually. All plants or company want a big profit and therefore, waste or lost need to be eliminated. In a plant there are two things that produce a product, a machine and a people. These two are the basic and foundation of any operation. Therefore, they are among major contribution in making waste and lost to plant. However most of the plants consider them an important asset.

In order to minimize waste lost and waste, these two need to be kept operating effectively. Therefore, a program and activity to take care both must be implemented. For man of course we don’t have much choice but to take care ourselves. However, to machine, we also don’t have much choice but to take care by ourselves since the machine not yet been able to take care by themselves of course.

Involvement of machine in making products is very critical either in auto or manual. To care machine we must have a maintenance program. Total Productive Maintenance is one of the best programs to maintain the machine. It has been applied for many years and many plants all around the world. We must understand that most plants now a day are using machine to produce products. Almost 90% of making product are made by machine, doesn’t matter small or big the plant. All plants are racing against each other to increase the productivity in order to produce a product to meet customer needs. So therefore to keep the machine at high efficiency is very important. Imagine that you are building a factory building. The first most important step in making a building is to ensure that the foundation or basement is very strong. Therefore, the building will not collapse in the future. The same applied to production operation. Ensuring the machine running at high efficiency is the most important step.

We must agree that Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is the foundation of a production. When we have this strong foundation then improvement of a production system such as a Toyota Production System (TPS), it will become successful.   We are not just talking about producing a high volume of products but also a high quality of products. Since 90% of products are made by machines therefore by implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is very much contributed to a high quality of product.

Since Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been proven to one of the best programs to ensure smooth daily production, therefore, many plants in the world are trying to implement it until today.