Mantenimiento productivo total seiichi nakajima biography

Maintenance management methodology

Total productive maintenance (TPM) started as a method of physical asset management, focused on maintaining and improving manufacturing machinery in order to reduce the operating cost to an organization.

After the PM award was created and awarded to Nippon Denso in 1971, the JIPM (Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance), expanded it to include 8 activities of TPM that required participation from all areas of manufacturing and non-manufacturing in the concepts of lean manufacturing.

TPM is designed to disseminate the responsibility for maintenance and machine performance, improving employee engagement and teamwork within management, engineering, maintenance, and operations.

There are eight types of activities in TPM implementation process:

1. Focused improvement (kobetsu-kaizen)
2. Autonomous maintenance (jishu-hozen)
3. Planned maintenance
4. Quality maintenance (hinshitsu-hozen)
5. Development management
6. Educ