Total productive maintenance

as companies strive to become more productive in the global economy, management is always looking for the perfect process to give them a strategic advantage over the competition. Total Productive Maintenance, TPM, is one of the ways Toyota and other Japanese companies became a world class manufacturer. TPM is a collection of ideas, activities, and processes that comprise a management system. Many of the ideas that drive TPM originated in the U.S. This presentation will start with a brief overview of the basic principles of TPM. It will describe the pillars and how they interact to form a management system. The paper will also show examples of our success using TPM to improve the performance of the world scale olefins complex.