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Unit 13: Total Productive Maintenance

Intellectual Capital: The term Intellectual capital collectively refers to all resources that Notes
determine the value and the competitiveness of an enterprise.
Life Cycle Cost: It is the concept of including acquisition, operating, and disposal costs when
evaluating various alternatives.
Preventive Maintenance: An equipment maintenance strategy based on replacing, overhauling
or remanufacturing an item at a fixed interval, regardless of its condition at the time is referred
to as preventive maintenance.
Team Approach: An approach to assessment that requires the active involvement of professionals
from many fields, parents, perhaps the person with a disability, and other interested parties is
known as team approach.

Total Productive Maintenance: A series of methods, originally pioneered to ensure that every
machine in a production process is always able to perform its required tasks so that production
is never interrupted is known as total productive maintenance.
Training: The action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behaviour is
called as training.

13.5 Review Questions

1. Briefly explain TPM and its objectives.
2. Discuss the planning step in total productivity maintenance.
3. Explain the areas of improvement which can be achieved through TPM.

4. What are the various attributes required for implementation of TPM in an organization?
5. What steps should be taken by the top management to promote the TPM philosophy?
6. Mention the various departments involved in the training stage of TPM implementation.
Why do you think are they important?
7. Why TPM needs autonomous workgroups? Explain.
8. Mathematically explain downtime losses.
9. Explain different metrics used for measurement in TPM.
10. Explain the relationship between TPM and TQM.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Japanese 2. Nippon Denso
3. Loss 4. Production; employee morale
5. Current performance 6. Senior management
7. Unused 8. Long-term; short-term

9. Training 10. Team
11. Productivity improvement 12. Employee’s
13. Operational 14. Training
15. Natural flow 16. Maintenance

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