"All-Round Improvements"
Chris Rowlands
Works Management
July 2007, pp. 18-21
This article explores how Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) can make a big difference in employee engagement, as well as machine uptime. A list of "pointers" is provided for a successful TPM implementation:
- Identify the needs—the business case. Make it visible, communicate it to the shop floor
- Obtain senior management sponsorship—it must be discussed at senior management meetings
- Management must display the right behaviors—the senior team must be out there, visible, asking, and being asked, questions
- Sustainability must be designed in from the start
- Measure OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) before launch, to set the baseline early. Data must be collected and owned—and reviewed daily and weekly
- Pilot an area or one machine only. Make it a massive success and the benchmark for future roll-out
- Develop a strategy for plant care: emphasize the inseparable relationship between operations and maintenance
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