Advanced TPM Training – Rieter Automotive Tilsonberg ON Canada

August 24-28^th saw the inaugural Advanced TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) college seminar hosted at Rieter Automotive-Tilsonberg.

This 4 day seminar was a combination of classroom theory combined with real-live Gemba experience as the participants applied their knowledge to one of the Rieter production lines.

Seminar participants then took the KAIZEN® opportunities identified and using the TPM methodologies worked on solutions, delivering real benefit to the process and production management team.

Key tools show-cased during the week were as follows:

Kobetsu KAIZEN®

Featuring the 12 step project management programme to enable the team to identify & solve productivity losses.

Autonomous Maintenance

Featuring the 7 step process, on how to involve the shopfloor operators in managing their plant & equipment to boost productivity

Early Equipment Management

Best practice process for identifying and implementing new plant & equipment utilizing team work and process expertise to eliminate “start-up” losses on new lines.

Total Productive Maintenance is often described or perceived as a maintenance programme that is only the concern of engineering.

TPM’s true meaning relates to how you “maintain” your productivity. In layman’s terms the TPM tools are focused on how to identify and reduce productivity losses related to how the production management run the whole process including the mechanical and human aspects of the operation.