With TPM, improve processes and costs reduce as of one of the basic components of the Toyota of production system (TPS), as well as total quality management (TQM), kanban, Kaizen, Poka yoke, is experiencing a steadily growing application in companies currently TPM. TPM is the original for total productive maintenance. Today, TPM is interpreted as total productive manufacturing or total productive management in the sense of a comprehensive production system. TPM finds its origin in the maintenance, as Japanese companies took over the so-called preventive maintenance of the Americans. TPM is preventive and predictive maintenance / maintenance of machinery and equipment in General autonomous (inclusive), planned. By means of preventive measures to ensures optimal use of production facilities and thus the effectiveness of the plant and the plant efficiency continuously increased. As a result, reduction of tooling and setup times, high should in addition to a reduction of interference – or down-time of the machines Process reliability and a high usage and ease of maintenance of the facilities will be achieved.
In addition to the increasing equity pulse of the companies, to optimise processes and to reduce costs, exist also normative requirements with regard to the maintenance company. \”So is, for example, to find the subsequent request of ISO / TS 16949: the Organization must determine the systems required for the key processes, to provide resources for the maintenance of machinery and equipment, and to build an effective, preventive maintenance system.\” (7.5.1.4. preventive and predictive maintenance) independently by external factors, such as economic crisis and standard requirements, it must be the company but in the genuine interest, that the machines needed for the provision of value added and plants reliably and functional work. So nothing is more devastating to do not as a job due to downtime or even complete engine failures. The Introduction of preventive-oriented maintenance management these worst-case scenarios effectively counteracts.
