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3 Start new teams and integrate team leaders into the existing TPM teams.
4 Use TPM to support the maintenance strategy.
5 Promote interdepartmental communication by staff from one department
joining a TPM team that supplies them with a service.
At Adams, TPM is now a way of life - both on the shopfloor and in the
boardroom. From the successes with TPM at Adams Manchester, it is easy to
see how, once begun, there should be no reason for going back.

By Warren Burgess and Mike Milne,
BP Amoco Operations Excellence Facilitators

1 .O Background
In 1997, BP’s Forties Delta platform pioneered a series of Continuous
Improvement (CI) projects that have helped reduce unplanned shutdowns
by 53 per cent and set the stage for the future operations of the Forties
platforms.
The various projects, managed in conjunction with WCS International,
have pulled together platform and beach workers from every discipline in a
united cause: to improve the safety, environmental impact, efficiency and
productivity of BP’s operations on the Forties Delta Platform.
The methodology used borrows heavily from Total Productive Maintenance
and has been introduced as a CI improvement tool, along with other
improvement initiatives in safety (STOP) and training.
Rather than starting ’yet another initiative’, this complements the concept
of building on existing good practices as a practical application of organizational
learning and personal development, with the goal as Totally Productive
Operations (TPO).

Initial workshop
The work began in March 1997 with a short planning exercise followed by a
four-day ’hands-on’ workshop. This looked at two pieces of equipment to
provide awareness and training, and a pragmatic demonstration of the
effectiveness of the approach.
The two projects undertaken during this workshop were the sodium
hypochlorite and scale inhibitor systems. Even though the four days were
mainly an opportunity for delegates to experience the power of CI, the two
teams identified many benefits.
The scale inhibitor team developed recommendations to reduce maintenance
intervention and the sodium hypochlorite team proposed an alternative design