Glossary of TPM terms
Asset Care Programme A systematic approach to keeping equipment in 'as new' condition. This consists of carrying out routine activities such as cleaning and inspection carried out by the operator and sometimes called Operator Asset Care or Autonomous Maintenance , checking and monitoring sometimes called Condition Based Monitoring , preventative maintenance and servicing sometimes called Maintainer Asset Care . Availability The actual run time of a machine as a percentage of its planned run...
32 Analogies
using the senses defining core competences creating the company-wide team Each is described below. At the end of the chapter there are two light-hearted stories. The first one is about an overhead projector operator and his maintenance colleague, which contains the best parts of the analogies in order to underpin the basically straightforward, but nonetheless fundamental, The second story relates to how a typical supervisor of the 'just do as I say' mould progressively changes to a 'let's work...
Henkel
Henkel Consumer Adhesives is famous for producing the world's biggest-selling adhesive brands, including Unibond, Pritt, Loctite, Solvite and Copydex. The site in Winsford, Cheshire, manufactures 28 000 tonnes of home improvement products each year. With over 900 product types, its famous Pritt glue stick has 80 per cent market share and enough Solvite wallpaper paste is bought each year to paste a roll of wallpaper thirty times around the world Its parent company, Henkel, employs 55 000 staff...
The TPM improvement plan
TPM is about maximizing the overall effectiveness of equipment through the people who operate and maintain that equipment. In order to provide the essential link between equipment and people it is essential to identify a clear set of phases and steps which together make up the TPM improvement plan. As outlined in Chapter 3, there are three phases to the plan The measurement cycle, which assesses the present effectiveness of the equipment and provides a baseline for the measurement of future...
Acknowledgements
Since the first edition of this book some five years ago, we have had the privilege of working with some really good people who share our passion and belief in the potential power of the TPM philosophy. This shared passion came from touching TPM in practice rather than theory. So here, we would like to express our sincere thanks to some of those good people. Our many clients continue to be our main source of inspiration through the priority, pace and resources they apply to the TPM process and...