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Scoping study
Figure 7.2 shows the scoping study process which is the critical planning stage
to ensure that the TPM implementation programme is adapted to suit the
local plant-specific needs.

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Figure 7.2 Scoping study process

The principles and philosophy of TPM are well proven. The key is to tailor
the TPM suit of clothes to fit the body or plant. If you force your body into the
’off the peg’ TPM suit of clothes, it will probably not fit at all well. The
tailoring of the suit, however, is not corrupted so much that it becomes
unrecognizable as a suit of clothes: the founding principles and pillars of
TPM are still valid.
Another way of considering the scoping study is to think of TPM as a
human heart: in a successful heart transplant, if you don’t match it to the
patient, you get rejection!
The objectives of the plant-specific scoping study are to:
set down precisely how TPM will help achieve the business drivers and
fit with other initiatives;
assess equipment losses for potential improvement;
0 carry out a cost/benefit appraisal;
assess people perceptions and readiness for the TPM programme;
identify TPM pilot opportunities and priorities;
identify the critical success factors and how TPM will fit;