[The TPM activity promotion general]

The TPM is Total Productive Maintenance.The TPM activity is the activity which JIPM(Japan Institute Plant Maintenance) proposes and is guiding.
For the details of the TPM activity, refer to the home page (English) of the following JIPM.

The TPM activity is the activity which the Japanese plant maintenance society proposes.When arranging the characteristic of the TPM activity between the opinion of the writer based on the definition, the idea of the TPM activity, it is as follows.

1. It grapples by the goal to make all loss in the production activities zero, and moreover it prevents from loss from happening and it is the activity which aims at the utmost

2. The point of view and the procedure (the step) of the TPM activity become clear.

3. It is the activity which all the members from the top to the linear operator participate in and then it is the activity which does the constitution revolution of the business by changing the point of view of the thing by the people of each hierarchy.

4. As for the TPM activity, the level of the goal is high and all the skills and the production engineering improve particularly.

5. The TPM activity is activity of the scene, the actual article, the realistic present situation grasping, the principle and the general rule.

The TPM activity which has above characteristic was born as the activity which makes all the loss of the production activities zero, improving the skill of the operator based on the facility preservation of the production scene and aiming at zero disaster, zero piece of worse, zero piece of trouble.
Concretely, it develops eight active pillars (the autonomy maintenance, the individual improvement, the schedule maintenance, the early stage control, the quality maintenance , the education training, the management of indirect costs, the safe sanitation) systematically.Then, it developed as the processing sector amount activity.
The characteristic of the TPM activity is the scene, the actual article which is not in the conventional activity, to be realistic.
Therefore, it was accepted by a lot of business.However, the TPM activity is not all.The defect of the activity of the TPM is the managerial technique which is the characteristic of the TQC.Moreover, the defect of the activity of the TPM is the scene control over the manufacture and JIT activity.It is based on the managerial technique of the TQC activity and it raises the level of the peculiar technique by the TPM activity.It combines JIT activity and it is active and moreover the multiple effect is born.

Who makes up one's mind in the step of the introduction of the TPM activity which determines is important.By either which is the making up one's mind of the president, the making up one's mind of the processing sector taking charge executive or the making up one's mind of the factory manager, the active spread after that influences mainly.
Also, it studies a TPM implementation company in the world, and the essence and the result of the TPM well.Then, it isn't completed if not introducing by the un-distracted making up one's mind as the activity of the amenable of the one's own company processing sector.
Above thing is the key of the success of the TPM activity.

Article 1
The TPM activity must be introduced as the means to achieve a company business policy and a middle plan.

Article 2
The president and the executive must study a TPM activity.

Article 3
The president, the executive and the factory manager must participate in the activity of the factory.Then, they make their hand dirty and must participate in the activity in taking the lead .

Article 4
The president, the executive and the factory manager must participate in the guide of the consultant.

Article 5
It plans to do the introduction preparation fast and it must be implemented.

Article 6
The company must educate the scene control to the manager, the supervisor.

Article 7
The manager, the supervisor must have guidance of the consultant obediently.

Article 8
It is necessary to have a budget with necessary active expenses.

Article 9
The promotion secretariat choose an able person.

Article 10
The president, the executive and the manager must visit the outside seminar and the other company aggressively.