LAUNCH
CORE TOPICS IN THE “LAUNCH” LEARNING PATH INCLUDE:
- What Is TPM?
- Benefits of TPM
- Aligning lean, TPM, operational excellence, and six sigma initiatives
- Defining “TPM” and “maintenance”
- Getting Management Support for TPM
- Management vs. leadership support
- Role of the leader
- Developing leaders for TPM
- TPM Planning
- Developing a provisional roadmap and rollout plan
- How TPM fits into day-to-day kaizen activities
- Collecting Data – Setting Baseline Metrics
- Where to start
- Policies
- Measures, goals, and goal alignment
- Autonomous Maintenance (AM) and Focused Improvement (FI)
- What they are
- Why start with AM & FI?
- Where do we start?
- Maintenance Improvement (MI)
- What it is: The role of maintenance in TPM
- Why we do MI after AM
- MI activities and metrics
- “Launch” Action Plan Design
IS “LAUNCH” THE RIGHT LEARNING PATH FOR ME?
- Are your day-to-day maintenance activities planned and scheduled (versus reacting to unplanned occurrences)?
- Are your operators “process owners” rather than “button pushers”? Do you know how to accomplish that transition?
- Are operators involved in day-to-day equipment/process reliability activities? Are you familiar with how that works?
- Are maintenance, production, and engineering personnel communicating, cooperating, and collaborating with each other to ensure KPI’s are met? Do you know how to get that done?
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If you answered “NO” to any of the above, then this is the best learning path to help you launch your TPM initiative and, your personal development in TPM.







