TPM

When setting your baseline values, you will need to forecast future production volumes and headcounts, factoring in your existing restructuring plans. Then, based on these figures, you should work out the staffing levels required in your ideal factory, given the OEE improvements you intend to make.

Difficult topics requiring specialized knowledge and skills: achieving right-first-time startup, developing new manufacturing methods, prolonging the service life of cutting tools, eliminating startup losses.

It is best to address each type of loss under the most appropriate pillar, with Effective Maintenance focusing on eliminating failures, TPM in Administrative and Support Departments focusing on attaining zero administrative losses, and so on.

An Autonomous Maintenance review is a coaching session carried out by a higher-level group in the overlapping small group pyramid in order to ensure that every member of the team under review has fully understood the purpose of the Autonomous Maintenance step they have just completed. It should carefully examine…