LEAN MANUFACTURING

Total Productive Maintenance

Boost Capacity and Improve Quality by Increasing Your Equipment's Life Expectancy

What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)?
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a process to maximize the productivity of your equipment for its entire life. TPM fosters an environment where improvement efforts in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Creativity are encouraged, through the participation of all employees.

The goal of TPM is to maximize your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and to reduce equipment downtime to zero while improving quality and capacity.

Benefits
Typical manufacturing operations have experienced improvements in the following areas in a relatively short period of time (6-12 months) through the implementation of TPM.

• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (capacity) improvement of 25-65%
• Quality improvement of 25-50%
• Maintenance expenditure reductions of 10-50%
• Percent Planned vs. Unplanned maintenance increase of 10-60%

WVMEP Program
The WVMEP program begins with an assessment of your current maintenance systems. This will identify gaps in the system that need addressed. The TPM training program consists of three components designed to introduce the concept , teach you how to implement a TPM program in your facility, and lastly educate the involved employees on the concept. At the end of this training the involved employees will understand TPM and will know how to implement the concepts.The WVMEP can also provide continuing support to assist with the actual implementation of the program in your facility.

To learn more, call us at 800.MEP.4MFG (800.637.4634) or 304.293.3800, or contact us.