MU 2017 November December

ADVERTORIAL
Pillar
1. Autonomous maintenance
2. Focussed improvements
3. Planned maintenance
4. Training & Education
Action
Routine maintenance
eg cleaning, lubricating,
inspection
Proactive problem
solving to achieve
ongoing improvement
in equipment operation
Scheduled maintenance
tasks based on predicted
equipment failure rates
Address skills and
knowledge gaps to
achieve TPM goals
Team responsibility
Primarily Operator with
Maintenance Engineering
support if required
Operator and Maintenance
Engineering teams
working co-operatively
Primarily Maintenance
Engineering team working
with Operator to schedule
maintenance to minimise
downtime
Operators, Maintenance
Engineers and Managers
bottleneck in production or an operation with
recurring problems.
Equipment restoration – clean up all pilot
area equipment so it can operate as well as
possible and then be monitored for potential
improvement or re-design.
Accurately measure OEE – track OEE on the
target equipment to identify all potential areas
where productive time is being lost.
Address major OEE losses – having
identified the most significant causes of lost
production time, use this data to create your
TPM programme and create a cross-functional
team to implement it.
5. Maintenance Prevention Use accumulated team
TPM knowledge to
improve equipment
design and operation
6. Quality Maintenance
7. Office TPM
8. Safety, Health & Environment
It is fairly obvious how adopting the 5S Foundation
creates a clean and well organised workplace:
1. Sort and Set in order tools and parts making
them easier to find
2. Shine – it is easier to spot fluid leaks, shavings
from metal wear or material spills in a clean
work area
3. Standardise – create standard of regular
inspections to ensure workplace is clean
and tidy
4. Sustain – empowered staff ensure all these
standards are maintained
Assuming the 5S Foundation is in place, the
Eight Pillars of TPM are shown in the table.
Roadmap to an effective TPM
programme
The most effective way to then implement
Design fault detection
and prevention into
production operation;
eliminate recurring faults
Apply TPM techniques
to back office and admin
functions improve admin
Maintain a safe and
healthy working
environment for all staff
Operators, Maintenance
Engineers and Managers
Maintenance Engineers
with feedback from
Operators
Maintenance Engineering
team reduce waste and
functionality
Maintenance Engineering
team eliminate potential
H&S risks
your TPM programme is to run Pillars
one to four in parallel with both the
production line operators and the
maintenance engineers. The aim of this
division of labour is to encourage
operators to take responsibility for the
day to day running and maintenance
of their equipment so freeing up the
maintenance engineers from routine shop
floor activities. With their “free” time, they can
concentrate on implementing Pillars five
to eight.
Here’s a simple roadmap to implementing
your TPM programme which allows
you to pilot it first in a single
problem area:
Identify Trial Pilot Area –e.g. equipment
that is easiest to improve or an obvious
Launch your Proactive TPM Programme –
launch and integrate your TPM programme
with all Operator, Maintenance Engineering
and Management teams!
Getting started
At SMC, we can bring to bear a host of
experience when it comes to designing and
implementing an effective TPM programme
for customers. Through many years of
working with customers from across the UK
manufacturing industry, we have developed a
dynamic portable display that demonstrates
how we can help you deliver TPM as part of a
programme of Continuous Improvement.
Our modular display enables us to engage
with employees wherever they are on site,
highlighting the issues that directly impact on
your business efficiency. Working with your
engineering and production line teams we will
create a TPM programme, tailored to your
specific business needs.
This will address staff skills gaps with
appropriate training delivered by our own
highly experienced Learning & Development
team; identify where you can reduce waste
such as compressed air leaks which on average
run at 20% of all compressed air generated
equating to thousands of pounds in lost
materials. Working together we will help you
achieve a significant increase in factory
throughput and productivity.
For more information on TPM contact: 0845 121 5122 or check-out
our website on: www.smcpneumatics.co.uk
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