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The maintainers are now responsible for ensuring that all the parts they
believe they require are available in the stores, and this is audited as part of
their team’s quarterly review.

Quotable quotes
The attitude of staff towards TPM underpins its success:
I classify TPM as a major success story for the Aycliffe site. It
has moved from the status of Project to that of a Continuous
Improvement Strategy which incorporates the Total Engagement
of our people in its implementation. The activity surrounding
TPM is now truly organic, laying down fundamental principles
of working methods which the plant will build upon for the
next Millennium.
Dave McDonald, European Manufacturing Manager
Before TPM, we just knew what we needed to do. Now we have
a more in-depth knowledge of the machine and a greater
understanding. We didn’t like TPM at first, but now we’ve really
got into it.
Val Cowper, Operator

TPM is not a cleaning exercise. It is a strategy which is process
and results oriented. It provides simple methods for data
collection, analyses, problem solving and process control. This
has allowed us at Aycliffe to move the continuous improvement
ethic forward, significantly, to the benefit of both the business
and everyone employed here. TPM is not about technology -
it’s about people.
Tony Hall, Production Manager

Through TPM, the teams are now encouraged to be self-
motivated, challenge existing practices and develop new methods
to improve. Due to the improved communication and a greater
sense of team responsibility, we now have a unified area.
Leslie Naisbitt, TPM Team Leader

5.0 The future for TPM
3M was celebrating recently after its CAF (Combined Assembler Finisher)
team won the prize at the International TPM Conference, TPM6, held in
Stratford upon Avon in June 1999.
Awarded to the UK company which has made the most outstanding progress
in its implementation of TPM, the winning team’s projected annual
improvements, applied across nine CAF machines, totalled over €300 000.