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‘A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation’
~ Andrew Grove ~
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
The evolutionary growth of ‘asset control...'
Seiichi Nakajima is credited as refining the US technique of preventive (time-based) maintenance into productive (predictive/condition-based) maintenance, and then further into Total Productive Maintenance.
The concept evolved into a practice designed to eliminate suboptimal equipment, human error, and a lack of understanding of how to achieve optimum conditions - with a view to achieving ‘zero breakdowns’. TPM practices and tools then, improve the effectiveness of transformation processes - providing frameworks to release capacity, increase control, and repeatability.
Five critical success factors for delivering the benefits of TPM*:
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
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 even small process improvements could mean to your organisation - download the Business Case for OEE Systems.
The evolutionary growth of ‘asset control...'
Seiichi Nakajima is credited as refining the US technique of preventive (time-based) maintenance into productive (predictive/condition-based) maintenance, and then further into Total Productive Maintenance.
The concept evolved into a practice designed to eliminate suboptimal equipment, human error, and a lack of understanding of how to achieve optimum conditions - with a view to achieving ‘zero breakdowns’. TPM practices and tools then, improve the effectiveness of transformation processes - providing frameworks to release capacity, increase control, and repeatability.
Five critical success factors for delivering the benefits of TPM*:
- Maximised equipment effectiveness
- Productive maintenance system for the life of the equipment
- Involve planning, designing, and maintenance departments in TPM implementation
- Actively involve all employees – from shop floor to top management
- Promote TPM through motivation management
Lean TPM – challenging the status quo
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
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 even small process improvements could mean to your organisation - download the Business Case for OEE Systems.
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