ELEVATE
CORE TOPICS IN THE “ELEVATE” LEARNING PATH INCLUDE:
- TPM – Raising the Bar
- TPM program core assumptions and attributes
- Aligning lean, TPM, operational excellence, and six sigma
- TPM Progress Self-Assessment
- Life cycle of the TPM rollout plan
- Reality check
- Gap identification
- Building and Articulating the Next-Level Business Case for TPM
- Organizational culture
- Organizational capabilities
- Measures and goal alignment
- Associated costs and ROI
- Maintenance organization goals: continually creating capacity
- TPM and your energy conservation and chemical waste programs
- Tools for Getting to the Next-Level Business Case
- Employing additional tools to help you reduce variation, improve, and grow
- Early Equipment Management (EEM )
- The next stage of Focused Improvement (FI)
- Exploring the 3P Methodology
- Diffusing TPM practices upstream and downstream, inside and outside the walls of your organization
- Life Cycle Costing (new equipment)
- Leading through Standard Work
- Revisiting roles and discipline routines
- Leveraging the gemba walk
- Making improvement part of daily work
- “Elevate” Action Plan Design
IS “ELEVATE” THE RIGHT LEARNING PATH FOR ME?
- Are your TPM efforts moving the needle on your overall organizational goals?
- Are leaders, managers, and supervisors consistently practicing standard work?
- Are gains achieved as a result of your improvement events being s-u-s-t-a-i-n-e-d?
- Are new workplace standards being consistently and continually communicated and followed by all workers on all shifts?
- Is improvement happening organically, rather than only when an “improvement event” happens?
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If you answered “YES” or “MOST OF THE TIME” to more than one of the above, or have these accomplishments under your belt as a TPM practitioner and want to see what lies next in your TPM journey, this learning path will help you learn how to elevate your TPM efforts to the next level.







