Generally, the maintenance is defined as the systematic, collective, important activity to sustain the features such as durability, endurance limits, other values, and performance of the things, matters, tools, equipment, devices, accessories, facilities, machines, plants, systems, etcetera.
Generally, the maintenance is the formal and practical activity followed through the systematic procedures at regular intervals in the way to sustain afore said valuable features and has different types of maintenances will vary with each type of facility to be used.
The maintenance activity further classified in to different heads such as preventive maintenance, periodic maintenance, predictive maintenance, breakdown maintenance, scheduled maintenance, and vary with the types of nature of facilities, applications and, situations.
The maintenance activity further fine-tuned on later days in the name of total productive maintenance (TPM) was developed by Seiichi Nakajima, Japan. The total productive maintenance is the system used to maintain and improve the accuracy of the production, safety, and quality through the facilities and employees in the way to add further benefits to an organization.
The total productive maintenance is the holistic approach towards maintaining the facilities required for the production process in good condition to avoid accidents, breakdowns, slow running, delay of production and, defects even for a small reason.
The traditional approach to the total productive maintenance was developed on 1960 with the model of 5S foundation, consists of five elements such as Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain and, eight pillars or supporting activities such as Autonomous maintenance, Planed maintenance, Quality maintenance, Focused improvement, Early equipment management, Training & education, Safety-Health-Environment, TPM in administrations.
The maintenance is an important activity carried out successfully through storing, keeping perfect tool kits, devices, test equipment, all types of lubricant, quality spare parts, packing materials, first aid kits, etcetera and providing proper education about the facilities and training on giving first aid, handling of tools & devices, overhauling, assembling and repairing the facilities in the plant.
The factors such as detail study of the constitution of the facilities in the plant, mechanism of major or critical spares, performance of the facilities related to the climate, availability & mindset of the employees, possibilities for breakdowns, professionals going to deal with, etcetera should consider while implementing the activity of Total Productive Management.
As per the study of the business scenario, the total productive maintenance (tpm) is an important activity, going to play vital roles in every production lines and assembly lines installed for manufacturing different products with high quality at less price decide the stability of the industries, globally.
VEL CONSULTANCY and the group of VEL CONSULTANCY feels proud to inform that we are successfully doing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), followed by the systematic procedure to the industries, manufacturing different products and different business for the past two decades would like to be a part of success of every client from any part of the world and expecting more opportunities to serve, the best.