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Maintenance means proper guarding, no exposed parts, minimum
adjustment: it means the operator is protected.
The Health and Safety Executive says most hearing damage is caused
by badly maintained machines.
When cleaning or driving our car we can idenbfy at least 27 condition
checks, of which 17 have sigruficant road safety implications. Bring ths
good practice into work with you (see Figure 3.3).
The notion of the competent and trained person, Linked to assets that
are fit for purpose and safe, plus statutory obligations, must be central
to your TPM strategy, policy and practice.

8.10 Summary

Some of the intangible benefits of why TPM works are as follows:
TPM is common sense and is therefore valued by employees and
employers alike
Practical vehicle for implementing the company’s goals and vision
Changes the employee’s mind, creating ownership
Belief in his/her equipment
Protected and maintained by hun/her
Through self-help (autonomous maintenance)
Give the employees confidence in themselves: create a feeling of ’where
there’s a will there‘s a way’
Clean environment and environmentally clean
Good corporate image
Figure 8.14 poses a question and provides the answer which epitomizes
the TPM approach. Figure 8.15 illustrates what WM meant to a team based
on their experiences of running a sixteen-week TPM pilot exercise at an
automotive manufacturer in the north of England.
There is no better way of rounding off this chapter than by quoting the
general manager of the plant after attending a team presentation of a TPM
improvement plan pilot:

We started our TPM programme - or TPM journey as I prefer to
tl-unk of it - about three months ago, so it’s early days yet.
However, the things that struck me most about the TPM team’s

Question
If you haven’t got the time to do things right the first time
How are you going to find the time to put them right?
Aluwer
TPM gives you the time to do things right the fmt time, every time!

Figure 8.14 TPM: the answer fo a problem