Total productive maintenance
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Total productive maintenance (TPM) is an approach to maintenance in which equipment operators perform much of the routine maintenance, often on a continuous basis. TPM identifies the sources of losses and drives toward elimination of all of them; it focuses on zero losses.
Definition
According to Juran's Quality Handbook by Defeo (7th edition),
- Total productive maintenance (TPM). An approach to maintenance in which equipment operators perform much of the routine maintenance, often on a continuous basis. TPM identifies the sources of losses and drives toward elimination of all of them; it focuses on zero losses.