World Class Manufacturing

Product planning has to be preceded by market research. In this manual, the blanket term “management of product and equipment development”, or “development management”, will be used to refer to all the activities taking place from the market research stage onwards. In the early stages of TPM (Level 1), development…

Test satellite stores setup in Stores. Identify critical spare parts. Identify and remove redundant parts from Stores. Update Stores & Spare Parts Management needs. Standardize spare parts and lubricants needed. Measurement system implementation

Term Meaning 3D Tasks Dangerous Difficult Dirty 4M (4M’s) Categorisation of problems and solutions into Man, Method, Machine and Materials 5 Whys Problem solving technique using Why 5 times 5S (Principles) 5 basic activities to establish a foundation for TPM implementation – taken from Japanese words. 5W + 1H 5…

Each factory should determine its own machines’ priorities, depending on their effect on the factory’s overall production (volume and quality) and factors such as how much damage the machines would sustain if they broke down.