TPM Implementation: A Japanese Approach

TPM for Complete Elimination of Losses. Outline of TPM. The Five Countermeasures to Attain Zero Breakdowns. The Seven Steps of Autonomous Maintenance. Step I: Initial Cleaning. Step II: Countermeasures to Source of Contamination and Inaccessible Area. Step III: Cleaning and Lubricating Standards. Step IV: Overall Inspection. Step V: Autonomous Inspection. Step VI: Process Quality Assurance. Step VII: Autonomous Maintenance in Manual Work.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a new approach to plant maintenance that combines preventive maintenance with total quality control and employee involvement. This book offers engineers a step-by-step program for implementing TPM in the equipment-oriented assembly industry. The authors explain basic TPM concepts, and outline seven steps for achieving autonomous maintenance. These include: Initial cleaning--describes why cleaning is necessary and how to do it; Countermeasures to source of contamination--explains how to improve equipment to maintain cleanliness; Cleaning and lubricating standards--shows how to lubricate equipment; Overall inspection--tells how to inspect and fix equipment defects; Autonomous maintenance--explains how to achieve and maintain zero breakdowns; Process quality assurance--shows how to achieve zero defects; Self control--discusses how to maintain zero breakdowns and zero defects once they have been achieved and offers a proposal for future TPM.