Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a comprehensive maintenance management approach developed by Seiichi Nakajima in the late 1980s that emphasizes employee involvement, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement to maximize equipment effectiveness. Unlike traditional reactive maintenance, TPM integrates maintenance activities across all organizational levels—from operators to executives—and focuses on eliminating losses (downtime, defects, speed losses) to achieve sustained production efficiency, quality, and safety.
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- Nakajima, S. (1988). Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance. Cambridge, MA: Productivity Press. · URL
- Wireman, T. (1990). World-class maintenance management. Industrial Press. · URL
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