Maintenance cost
Introduction
Total Productive Maintenance (from English Total Productive Maintenance, TPM) is a business work philosophy originating in Japan, more specifically in Nippon Denso Co Ltd, Toyota's electronic components subsidiary, which focuses on the elimination of losses associated with stoppages, quality and accidents, which negatively influence efficiency, affecting costs in industrial production processes.[1] Furthermore, the purpose is to include all personnel in the implementation of the methodology, through the creation of a culture of lifelong learning and the development of reliable work habits. The acronym TPM was registered by the Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance JIPM, in 1971.[2][3].
The TPM methodology is considered a Lean Manufacturing methodology (Lean Manufacturing), which facilitates the continuous improvement of people and companies.
Pillars
Contenido
El TPM se sustenta en ocho pilares.[4].
Focused improvements or targeted improvement
This pillar is also called kobetsu kaizen and develops the continuous improvement process similar to that existing in the Total Quality Management processes), reaching the root cause of the problems, with prior planning of the goal and the time of achievement.[5].
The TPM pillar of focused improvements provides methodologies to get to the root of the problems, allowing the identification of the factor to be improved, defining it as a goal and estimating the time to achieve it, in the same way, it makes it possible to preserve and transfer the knowledge acquired during the execution of improvement actions.
These activities are aimed at improving a wide variety of elements, such as a process, a procedure, equipment or specific components of some equipment; accurately detecting the loss and executing an action plan to eliminate it.
It seeks to eliminate chronic losses in production.”[6].