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.