Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Total productive maintenance is a particular approach to productivity improvement that aims to bring together an organizational culture with a range of tools and techniques operating at a variety of levels to ensure that there is harmony from overall company strategy through product design, process design and onto the production floor. Explains the fundamental concepts from diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses (using a simple points‐scoring technique) to implementation in simple, diagrammatic form providing, in effect, a series of checklists.