What is TPM (TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE) ?
It is understood perfectly by the name TPM (total productive maintenance) i.e. “A maintenance Strategy aimed at to maximize plant and equipment effectiveness to achieve optimum life cycle cost of production equipment, or in other words, keeping equipment in a position to produce at maximum capacity, the expected quality products, with no unscheduled stops which includes zero breakdowns, zero downtimes, and maximum production efficiency.” TPM is an innovative Japanese concept. The origin of TPM can be traced back to 1951 when preventive maintenance was introduced in Japan. The ideas of TQM (Total Quality Management) and the concepts of PM (Preventive …