Towards Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

There is a requirement in many organisations to develop strategies for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as a step beyond Lean Maintenance and Manufacturing. TPM aims to reduce all forms of 'waste' in the process to as small as is economically possible or, ideally, Zero.

Lean TPM provides a ‘route map’ for identifying (evolving) business drivers and linking them to a continuous improvement agenda to ensure an organisations’ day-to-day activity is focussed on value added activity that delivers tangible benefit. One of the most important aspects of Lean TPM programmes is to be able to measure the effectiveness of your activities, and quantify the business benefit (time/money) of step change improvements.

TPM IT is thus integral to these initiatives – and Idhammar Systems has been developing market leading solutions to measure and effectively manage organisations’ world-class operations. Our systems are designed to provide business intelligence, dashboard reporting, sophisticated notification and alarms, workflow capabilities, and highly configurable forms and reports to measure and manage all aspects of maintenance and manufacturing. Furthermore, our CMMS integrated with OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) Systems have already enabled significant savings through continuous improvement programmes across multiple sites – proving their worth with wide range of customers.

To understand what integrating your CMMS with an OEE System could do for your organisation, read the Aunt Bessie's case study.