Improving Production with Lean Thinking by Torres Jose M

Author:Torres, Jose M....
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-22T16:01:16.120000+00:00

Figure 6.9. User maintenance orders must be easy for production workers to understand and accomplish.

Figure 6.10. Cleaning, lubricating, and checking the equipment.

The autonomous maintenance process has a specific methodology (Fig. 6.12) made up of seven steps that lead to its complete implementation.

TPM: Total Productive Maintenance

In the 1970s, Nakajima developed total productive maintenance (TPM) in Japan. TPM was a new maintenance management philosophy included in Toyota's improvement process.

Although the TPM concept was introduced in Japan in 1971, it took a long time to be published in English. In fact, the first English translation was not published until 1988. TPM development resulted in the creation of the Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM), which grants a PM prize to top companies in TPM. Sixty percent of the winning companies over the first 17 years are now part of the Toyota group or suppliers of this group.

Nakajima combined preventive maintenance theories with the total quality concept. As a result, Nakajima developed the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) ratio (studied in Chap. 1), which is one of the TPM keys:

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