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the equipment’s reliability once implemented by the TPM core team. The
objective being to make it easy to do things right and difficult to do things
wrong.
Pillar Champions: Initially there are five very important capabilities that
everyone needs to embrace if TPM is to flourish. These are:
1. Continuous Improvement in OEE (OEE)
2. Maintenance Asset Care (MAC)
3. Operator Asset Care (OAC)
4. Skills Development (SD)
5. Early Equipment Management (EEM)
Because the five principles (sometimes called the Pillars of TPM) are so
important we assign their development to each member of the management
team. Each Pillar Champion as they are referred to creates the environment
at the Plant, by changing the way they manage, to enable everyone to contribute
to these principles and the TPM process. They therefore develop the policy
for the particular pillar and then ensure its consistent deployment.
Pilot Projects: These initial pilots are learning experiences for the core teams
to work through the nine Step TPM Improvement Plan. They are small but
representative ’chunks’ of plant that enable us to flush out the management
processes and habits that need to change if we want TPM to flourish across
a plant or site.
P-M Analysis: A problem solving tool used in TPM in conjunction with the
five whys. The 4 Ps and the 4 Ms stand for:
4 Ps -phenomena which are physical in nature which cause problems that
can be prevented.
4 Ms - are caused by machines, manpower, methods and materials.
Performance Rate: The actual performance rate of a machine or process,
expressed as a percentage of planned performance rate.
Problem Prevention Cycle: The third and final stage in the Improvement
Plan when the TPM Core Team concentrates on preventing problems from
occurring in the future.
Roll-Out: This is where we start implementing the TPM techniques across
the whole site. This is so that we can begin to get everyone involved and
contributing to the TPM process. This also has a number of stages (called
Phases). These are staggered so that we implement TPM at a sustainable rate.
Quality Loss: Lost production due to the manufactured product not being
produced right first time and which will therefore need to be either re-worked
or scrapped.
Quality Rate: The first time ok product, expressed as a percentage of the total
manufactured.
Reduced Speed Loss: Production lost due to running equipment at a speed
lower than its intended or designed speed.