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Putting TPM into perspective

from Total Productive

Maintenance to Total

Productive Manufacturing

If we look at the value stream (Figure 1.1), we see that it is customers who
actually drive our business. In the manufacturing sense, we therefore need to
provide the necessary production responses to satisfy and exceed those
expectations by adding value, quality and performance in all that we do.
The most effective way of adding value is to have a continuous determination
to eliminate waste across the supply chain and thus maximize the value
stream: easy to state, difficult to deliver.
So where do the principles, processes and reality of TPM come into play to
achieve the goal of a ’Totally Productive Operation’?

1.1 TPM applied company-wide
The answer is to view TPM not simply as Total Productive Maintenance in

Customers Necessary
company
responses

To satisfy/exceed
expectations

QUALITY

&
PERFORMANCE

Company-wide TPM is about maximizing added value and eliminating
waste across the supply chain in order to satisfy and exceed our
customers’ expectations

Figure 2.2 The value stream