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1.7 Implementing TPM principles
The successful implementation of the five CAN DO steps provides a powerful
organizational learning tool. This is because CAN DO influences two important
areas of corporate memory:

0 process layout
best practice routines
It provides a positive development path for manager /shopfloor relationships,
helping to highlight the barriers to change and conform to world-class values.
The TPM implementation process is built around the CAN DO steps (as
are the seven steps of autonomous maintenance). This treats information,
collation, equipment, understanding and maintenance as things that are
necessary, compared to sources of contamination, human error and hidden
losses as unnecessary items. Having decided what is necessary, work processes
can then be formalized/refined.
One of the outcomes of implementing best practice in this way is that
many tasks can be simplified such that they can be carried out by the most
appropriate person. This releases specialist maintenance or production
personnel to concentrate on optimization of plant and equipment, providing
the gateway to ‘better than’ new performance. The stepwise implementation
philosophy of the TPM principles is set out below.
Continuous improvement in OEE
The initial process of cleaning and establishing order leads to discovering
abnormalities, and progresses through four steps:
1 Discover equipment abnormalities.
2 Treat abnormalities and extend focus to supply chain losses.
3 Set optimal equipment conditions to deliver future customer expectations.
4 Maintain optimal equipment conditions during delegation of routine
management activities.

The objective of this process is to move progressively towards a situation
where all production plant is always available when needed and operating
as closely as possible to 100 per cent effectiveness. Achieving this goal will
certainly not come easily and may take years. The basic concept is one of
continuous improvement: ’What is good enough today will not be good
enough tomorrow’.
Operator asset care (autonomous maintenance)
As operators become more closely involved in getting the very best from
their machines, they move through seven steps towards autonomous or self-
directed maintenance:
1 Initial cleaning
2 Carrying out countermeasures at the source of problems
3 Developing and implementing cleaning and lubrication standards