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Inject before
prevention deterioration breakdown

Routine service Monitoring Timely
Lubricate and preventive
Clean prediction maintenance
Adjust
Inspect

Figure 3.12 Healthy equipment is like a healthy body

Checks and monitoring Measure deterioration or use the thermometer
which highlights the trends or changes in performance. The operator
can support the maintainer by acting as his ears, eyes, nose, mouth and
common sense, thus allowing the maintainer to concentrate on the critical
diagnostic tasks.
Planned, preventive maintenance and servicing Inject before breakdown,
which prevents failure by reacting to changes in condition and
performance. The maintainer still does the majority of these tasks under
TPM on the basis that a technical skill and/or judgement is required.
Perhaps the key difference in determining the asset care regime is that
under TPM the operator and maintainer determine the routines under each
of three categories. If you ask our opinion as an operator or maintainer and
that opinion is embodied in the way we do things for the future, then we will
stick with it because it is our idea. On the other hand, if you impose these
routines from above, then we might tick a few boxes on a form, but we will
not actually do anything.
The analogy works for activities across the company. Those who do the
work are in the best position to define and refine core competences.

The soccer team
The third analogy emphasizes the absolutely critical aspect of teamwork. At
every stage in the development of the TPM process, teamwork and total co-
operation without jealousy and without suspicion are essential to success. In
Chapter 7, we shall see how these teams are established and developed, but
Figure 3.13 gives a pictorial representation of how the teams can function to
maximum efficiency and minimum losses. Their job is to 'win', just as a