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# Total Productive Maintenance by Gemba Academy
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/total-productive-maintenance-by-gemba-academy/
- Published: 2016-03-21T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-18T12:46:11.000Z
- Description: Learn more about Total Productive Maintenance and how it can support your Lean efforts. It is a combination of preventive maintenance, total quality control, and total employee involvement aimed at achieving zero accidents, defects, and breakdowns.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Lean, #The Lean Presentation

Learn more about Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and how it can support your Lean efforts.

As we [have learnt](https://web.archive.org/web/20190715135616/http://theleanpresentation.com/introduction-to-the-total-productive-maintenance/) TPM is a combination of preventive maintenance, total quality control, and total employee involvement aimed at achieving *Zero Accidents*, *Zero Defects*, and *Zero Breakdowns*.

Watch this overview video by the [Gemba Academy](https://www.gembaacademy.com/?ref=pesec.no) to find out more about:

- what TPM is and isn’t about;
- why use TPM;
- importance of TPM;
- goal of TPM; and
- eight key TPM strategies.

The video is part of Gemba Academy’s Total Productive Maintenance [series](https://www.gembaacademy.com/school-of-lean/total-productive-maintenance?ref=pesec.no).

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****Want to know more?**

Traditional TPM model consists of a [5S](https://web.archive.org/web/20190123140153/http://theleanpresentation.com/category/lean/lean-tools/5s) foundation and eight pillars:

![The traditional TPM model ](https://web.archive.org/web/20190123140153im_/http://theleanpresentation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/traditional-tpm-model.gif)

*The traditional TPM model ([source](https://www.leanproduction.com/tpm.html?ref=pesec.no))*

[LeanProduction.com](http://www.leanproduction.com/?ref=pesec.no) has aa informative [article](https://www.leanproduction.com/tpm.html?ref=pesec.no) on TPM to get you started with your implementation. If you are interested in the big picture start by comprehensive literature review by Ahuja and Khamba ([2008](http://www.pqprc.ac.ir/userfiles/groups/Total%20productive-literature%20review%20and%20directions.pdf?ref=pesec.no)). Introduction to TPM by Nakajima ([1988](https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-TPM-Productive-Maintenance-Preventative/dp/0915299232?ref=pesec.no)) and Total Productive Maintenance by Borris ([2006](https://www.amazon.com/Total-Productive-Maintenance-Strategies-Techniques/dp/0071467335?ref=pesec.no)) are all the books you need to get you kick-started in your TPM implementation.

****References**

Ahuja, I.P.S. and Khamba, J.S., 2008\. Total productive maintenance: literature review and directions. *International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management*, 25(7), pp.709-756.

Nakajima, S., 1988\. *Introduction to TPM : Total Productive Maintenance*. Cambridge, Mass: Productivity Press.

Borris, S., 2006\. *Total Productive Maintenance*. New York: McGraw-Hill.

*This post was originally written for [The Lean Presentation](https://www.pesec.no/the-lean-presentation/).*