{"id":2739,"date":"2017-04-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpulse.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/maintenance-managers-know-total-productive-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:28:07","slug":"tpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpulsesoftware.com\/blog\/maintenance-management\/tpm\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need to Know about Total Productive Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard about total productive maintenance (TPM maintenance), the definition probably sounds familiar\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems through the machines, equipment, processes, and employees that add\u00a0business value\u00a0to an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The long-term goals of TPM are to reduce breakdowns, slowdowns, and defects while improving safety.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a coincidence that those are also the benefits of CMMS software. So how does TPM work?<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mpulsesoftware.com\/blog\/maintenance-management\/tpm\/#The_Eight_Pillars_of_Total_Productive_Maintenance\" >The Eight Pillars of Total Productive Maintenance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mpulsesoftware.com\/blog\/maintenance-management\/tpm\/#CMMS_Software_and_the_Industrial_Internet_of_Things_IIoT_Facilitate_TPM\" >CMMS Software and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Facilitate TPM<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Eight_Pillars_of_Total_Productive_Maintenance\"><\/span>The Eight Pillars of Total Productive Maintenance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>TPM focuses on proactive and preventative techniques for improving equipment reliability. The eight pillars of TPM are\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focused improvement<\/li>\n<li>Autonomous maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Planned maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Quality maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Cost deployment<\/li>\n<li>Early equipment management<\/li>\n<li>Training and education<\/li>\n<li>Safety, health, environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The overall goal of TPM maintenance is, of course, to increase productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? That\u2019s the biggest benefit of CMMS software too.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CMMS_Software_and_the_Industrial_Internet_of_Things_IIoT_Facilitate_TPM\"><\/span>CMMS Software and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Facilitate TPM<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been using CMMS software, you\u2019re likely already on the road to TPM (whether you call it that or not).<\/p>\n<p>CMMS software facilitates TPM. One of the biggest pushes in this direction is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).<\/p>\n<p>IIoT devices gather information directly from multiple sources\u2014including computers, vehicles, smartphones, appliances, building automation systems, and production equipment.<\/p>\n<p>With the combination of the IIoT and CMMS software, maintenance teams can monitor multiple meters (e.g., revolutions, psi, hours) on a single asset; specify multiple conditions, triggers, and responses; and automate work order generation based on specified triggers.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits include faster response times with automated alerts, reduced staffing and overtime, fewer errors due to manual data entry, time-series charting to spot trends, and the ability to grow with changing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>All of those benefits fit nicely in the TPM maintenance tenets above.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely your team is already working on similar goals, if not all of them. That\u2019s the biggest reason so many maintenance teams implement CMMS software in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, once you focus on one or two of these goals\u2014like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpulsesoftware.com\/software\/features\">planned maintenance<\/a> (aka preventive maintenance or predictive maintenance)\u2014the others come easier.<\/p>\n<p>TPM may sound familiar because it shares elements of other management philosophies like total productive manufacturing or lean manufacturing. It\u2019s also closely related to one of our favorites around here\u2014data-driven decision making.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve likely already experienced TPM in one way or another because modern maintenance organizations are employing the same philosophies in their maintenance strategies.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your experience with TPM? How is your organization changing the way it does maintenance? Leave a comment or <a href=\"https:\/\/mpulsesoftware.com\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a>. We\u2019re all in this together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard about total productive maintenance (TPM maintenance), the definition probably sounds familiar\u2026 \u201cA system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems through the machines, equipment, processes, and employees that add\u00a0business value\u00a0to an organization.\u201d The long-term goals of TPM are to reduce breakdowns, slowdowns, and defects while improving safety. It\u2019s not a coincidence that those are also the benefits of CMMS software. So how does TPM work? The Eight Pillars of Total Productive Maintenance TPM focuses on proactive and preventative techniques for improving equipment reliability. The eight pillars of TPM are\u2026 Focused improvement Autonomous maintenance Planned maintenance Quality maintenance Cost deployment Early equipment management Training and education Safety, health, environment The overall goal of TPM maintenance is, of course, to increase productivity. Sound familiar? That\u2019s the biggest benefit of CMMS software too. CMMS Software and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Facilitate TPM If you\u2019ve been using CMMS software, you\u2019re likely already on the road to TPM (whether you call it that or not). CMMS software facilitates TPM. One of the biggest pushes in this direction is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). IIoT devices gather information directly from multiple sources\u2014including computers, vehicles, smartphones, appliances, building automation systems, and production equipment. With the combination of the IIoT and CMMS software, maintenance teams can monitor multiple meters (e.g., revolutions, psi, hours) on a single asset; specify multiple conditions, triggers, and responses; and automate work order generation based on specified triggers. The benefits include faster response times with automated alerts, reduced staffing and overtime, fewer errors due to manual data entry, time-series charting to spot trends, and the ability to grow with changing technologies. All of those benefits fit nicely in the TPM maintenance tenets above. It\u2019s likely your team is already working on similar goals, if not all of them. That\u2019s the biggest reason so many maintenance teams implement CMMS software in the first place. Plus, once you focus on one or two of these goals\u2014like planned maintenance (aka preventive maintenance or predictive maintenance)\u2014the others come easier. TPM may sound familiar because it shares elements of other management philosophies like total productive manufacturing or lean manufacturing. It\u2019s also closely related to one of our favorites around here\u2014data-driven decision making. You\u2019ve likely already experienced TPM in one way or another because modern maintenance organizations are employing the same philosophies in their maintenance strategies. What\u2019s your experience with TPM? How is your organization changing the way it does maintenance? Leave a comment or contact us. We\u2019re all in this together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What You Need to Know about Total Productive Maintenance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover the key elements of total productive maintenance (TPM) and how they contribute to increased productivity and equipment reliability.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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