The Five Pillars of TPM

Pillars of TPMFrom TPM for Supervisors by Kunio Shirose:

  1. Improvement activities designed to increase equipment effectiveness. This is accomplished mainly by eliminating the six big equipment losses.
  2. An autonomous maintenance program to be performed by equipment operators.This is established as operators are trained to know their equipment.
  3. A planned maintenance system. This increases the efficiency of traditional preventive maintenance activities.
  4. Training to improve operation and maintenance skills.This raises the skill levels of equipment operators and maintenance workers.
  5. A system for PM design and early requipment management. PM design helps create equipment that requires less maintenance. Early equipment management gets new equipment operating normally in less time.

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