TPM oh TPM ?

                Today, there we can see a lot of thing in the market. They are not made suddenly. Some of them are home-made and some come from factory. To be produced, goods must pass through production activity. In this activity, we can see that worker or labor work with tools to produce goods. For sure, the tools need maintenance. This is because one product must be identically similar to another product with the same type. In engineering management, the product manufacturing and tool maintenance meet in Total Production Maintenance or TPM.

                Historically, TPM came from Japan. TPM is an innovative Japanese concept. The origin of TPM can be traced back to 1951 when preventive maintenance was introduced in Japan. Maintenance group took up only essential maintenance works. It means that the worker or labor himself can maintain the production tools instead of call the maintenance division.
                TPM is medical science of machines and defined concept for maintaining plants and equipment. The worker or labor must know about how to maintain the tools and to check the tools’ readiness for production. It means that the worker or labor must keep the tools healthy.
                TPM program is to markedly increase production. Instead of maintaining the production tools when it breaks or in a scheduled time, it will be better for the worker or labor in the production line to check the production tools before they use it. It means that the tools get maintained almost everyday or everytime it is used by the worker or labor.
TPM brings maintenance into focus as a necessary and vitally important part of the business. The manufacturing activity is about making product which is still similar to another product in its type when it comes to mass production. If the production tools is not well-maintained, the manufacturing activity will fail because a good tool will make a different product with the bad tool.

                TPM’s function is to get a goal. The goal is to hold emergency and unscheduled maintenance to a minimum. This is because emergency maintenance in the same time of the production time wiil slow down the manufacturing activity speed.

The important ones are avoid waste in a quickly changing economic environment.  TPM is used because broken tools will need more resources  than the same tools but in a good condition.

Producing goods without reducing product quality. In engineering management, TPM makes sure that that the manufacturing activity will succeed because when the production tools are in a good condition everytime, it will produce good quality product everytime it is used by worker or labor.

Goods send to the customers must be non-defective. Like what I have said before, TPM will function as a method to make sure that goods are made int the same quality and have no different one to each other.

TPM involves equipment operators in the simple. IT means that when the tools get some little breaks, the user or the worker himself can fix it on the field without bringing it to the maintenance divison.

Day-to-day basics of equipment cleanliness and checks to enhance employee ownership in maintaining and identifying equipment problems immediately is used in engineering management by TPM. By this way, the operator or labor who used the production tools will have a sense of owning the tools.

Some implementations of TPM are cleaning, inspection, oiling and re-tightening. Design to retain the healthy condition of equipment and prevent failure through the prevention of deterioration, periodic inspection or equipment condition diagnosis, to measure deterioration.

Now we come to the conclusion. The conclusion is that with competition in industry at an all time high, TPM may be the only thing that stands between success and total failure for some companies. It has been proven to be a program that works