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The top-down and bottom-up realities of TPM 53

3.1 0 The overhead projector analogy
Good morning, everybody, my name is Peter Willmott and my job is to operate
this overhead projector (Figure 3.21). I have worked for the OHP Company
for twenty years now and, provided I have walked in vertically every day
and have been warm to the touch, nobody in management has taken too
much notice of me!
Times are a-changing, however, and seemingly for the better. Apparently,
our Managing Director has been to visit one of our competitors and has seen
how they look after their equipment and, perhaps more importantly, their
people. They practise a thing called Total Productive Maintenance or TPM.
Now that it has been explained to us, we prefer to think of TPM as Total
Productive Manufacturing, as it’s about teamwork between production and
maintenance. It’s quite simple really. Common sense, you might say, and the

Acrylic panel

Fan (inside)

Bulb (inside)

Thermometer
Figure 3.21 Overhead projector analogy