New TPM: Total Productive Maintenance Bukit Merah, Central

Course details

The modern business world is a rapidly changing environment, so the last thing a company needs if it is to compete in the global marketplace is to get in its own way because of the way in which it approaches the business of looking after its income generating physical assets. It is important to have a fundamental rethink of business processes to achieve improvements in cost, quality, speed etc.

The New TPM – Total Productive Manufacturing is a manufacturing led initiative that emphasizes the importance of people, a 'can do' and 'continuous improvement' philosophy and the importance of everyone, not just production staff, working together. It is presented as a key part of an overall manufacturing philosophy.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

At the end of the programme, participants will learn how to :

1. Achieve leaner organizational structures and reduce cost
2. Rigorously reappraise the way things are done - towards simplification
3. Improve performance through the use of appropriate measurement
4. Handle changes as a result of having to do things differently
5. Instill upon the concept continuous improvement

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

1. What is a World Class Organization?
2. TPM Definition
3. Features of TPM
4. Origins of TPM and comparison with TQM and Traditional Maintenance
5. TPM principles
6. Eight Major Pillars of TPM

• Autonomous maintenance
• Equipment and process improvement and Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Planned maintenance
• Early Management of New Equipment
• Process Quality management
• TPM in administrative and support departments
• Education and training
• Safety and environmental management
• TPM implementation
• TPM benefits – tangible and intangible