1st Edition

Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps Implementing TPM on the Shop Floor

By Fumio Gotoh, Masaji Tajiri Copyright 1999
352 Pages
by Productivity Press

352 Pages
by Routledge

Autonomous maintenance is an especially important pillar of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because it enlists the intelligence and skills of the people who are most familiar with factory machines-- equipment operators. Operators learn the maintenance skills they need to know through a seven-step autonomous maintenance program. Most companies in the West stop after implementing the first few... Read more
  1. TPM Aims at the Elimination of Losses
  2. A Summary of TPM
  3. The Five Countermeasures to Achieve Zero Breakdowns
  4. The Autonomous Maintenance Program
  5. Step 1: Initial Cleaning
  6. Step 2: Countermeasures to Sources of Contamination
  7. Step 3: Cleaning and Lubricating Standards
  8. Step 4: Overall Inspection
  9. Step 5: Autonomous Maintenance Standards
  10. Step 6: Process Quality Assurance
  11. Step 7: Autonomous Supervision
  12. Autonomous Maintenance in Manual Work Departments

Biography

Masaji Tajiri, Fumio Gotoh