Final Report TPM Part
Final Report TPM Part
- Kandivali
CHAPTER 4
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Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. - Kandivali 4.1 INTRODUCTION TO TPM:Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program concept. Philosophically, TPM resembles Total Quality Management (TQM) in several aspects, such as (1)total commitment to the program by upper level management is required, (2) employees must be empowered to initiate corrective action, and (3) a long range outlook must be accepted as TPM may take a year or more to implement and is an on-going process. Changes in employee mind-set toward their job responsibilities must take place as well. TPM brings maintenance into focus as a necessary and vitally important part of the business. It is no longer regarded as a non-profit activity. Down time for maintenance is scheduled as a part of the manufacturing day and, in some cases, as an integral part of the manufacturing process. It is no longer simply squeezed in whenever there is a break in material flow. The goal is to hold emergency and unscheduled maintenance to a minimum. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is all about improving the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E) of Mfg. plant.
4.2 DEFINITION OF TPM:The new definition was set in 1989. This the 'definition of company wide TPM' is 1. TPM aims to create a corporate system that maximizes the efficiency of the production system (overall efficiency improvement). 2. TPM creates systems for preventing the occurrence of all the losses on the frontline and is focused on the end product. This includes systems for realizing ' zero accidents, zero defects & zero failures' in the entire life cycle of the production system. 3. TPM is applied to all sectors, including the production, development and administration departments. 4. TPM is based on the participation of all members, ranging from top management to frontline employees. 5. TPM achieves zero losses through overlapping small group activities.
The primary objectives of TPM are to:Create a management system that plans, implements, monitors and continuously improves (O.E.E) of the manufacturing facility. Create processes that can assure zero defects, zero breakdowns, zero accidents and zero losses. Create total employee involvement in achieving O.E.E. and eliminating waste through small group activities.
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4.3 HISTORY OF TPM :TPM evolved from TQM, which evolved as a direct result of Dr. W. Edwards Deming's influence on Japanese industry. Dr. Deming began his work in Japan shortly after World War II. As a statistician, Dr. Deming initially began to show the Japanese how to use statistical analysis in manufacturing and how to use the resulting data to control quality during manufacturing. The initial statistical procedures and the resulting quality control concepts fueled by the Japanese work ethic soon became a way of life for Japanese industry. This new manufacturing concept eventually became knows as Total Quality Management or TQM. When the problems of plant maintenance were examined as a part of the TQM program, some of the general concepts did not seem to fit or work well in the maintenance environment. Preventative maintenance (PM) procedures had been in place for some time and PM was practiced in most plants. Using PM techniques, maintenance schedules designed to keep machines operational were developed. However, this technique often resulted in machines being over-serviced in an attempt to improve production. The thought was often "if a little oil is good, a lot should be better." Manufacturer's maintenance schedules had to be followed to the letter with little thought as to the realistic requirements of the machine. There was little or no involvement of the machine operator in the maintenance program and maintenance personnel had little training beyond what was contained in often inadequate maintenance manuals. The need to go further than just scheduling maintenance in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations as a method of improving productivity and product quality was quickly recognized by those companies who were committed to the TQM programs. To solve this problem and still adhere to the TQM concepts, modifications were made to the original TQM concepts. These modifications elevated maintenance to the status of being an integral part of the overall quality program. The origin of the term "Total Productive Maintenance" is disputed. Some say that it was first coined by American manufacturers over forty years ago. Others contribute its origin to a maintenance program used in the late 1960's by Nippondenso, a Japanese manufacturer of automotive electrical parts. Seiichi Nakajima, an officer with the Institute of Plant Maintenance in Japan is credited with defining the concepts of TPM and seeing it implemented in hundreds of plants in Japan. Books and articles on TPM by Mr. Nakajima and other Japanese as well as American authors began appearing in the late 1980's. The first widely attended TPM
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TPMs Origin at Nippondenso:TPM was created in 1971, based on the PM (preventive maintenance or productive maintenance) concept introduced from the United States in the 1950s through 1960s. TPM had its inception at Nippondenso Co. Ltd., a well-known general manufacturer in automobile parts. The company introduced productive maintenance in 1961. In dealing with subsequent progress of automation, exemplified by transferization the company achieved great success in and after 1969 by upholding total member participation PM (Abbreviated as TPM). The company received an award for PM excellence in business establishments (abbreviated as PM award) for the 1971 fiscal year. Since then the PM prize has been awarded annually on the basis of TPM implementation. In the examination and commendation of the PM award, which has been in existence since 1964, Nippondensos TPM was enthusiastically praised by all members of examination committee for its outstanding performance.
TPMs Diffusion into all business lines:Because TPM originated in Nippondenso, which is a member of Toyota Group, TPM initially diffused into the Toyota group. Subsequently it penetrated the fabrication and assembly industries, such as automobile, machinery & semiconductor industries, including chemicals, foodstuffs, cement, and ceramics.
4.4 Differences between PM & TPM:When the term PM first entered in Japan from the United States around 1950, it was used to mean preventive maintenance. In the 1950 through the 1960s, Japan learned a great deal from the United States, including productive maintenance (PM), corrective maintenance (CM), Maintenance prevention (MP), reliability engineering (RE) and maintainability engineering in addition to the preventive maintenance. Subsequently, the American idea of PM spread so widely in Japan, that PM was thought to be an acronym for plant maintenance. We can say that TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE (TPM) was developed by modifying PM with a unique Japanese perspective and tailoring it to the Japanese style of management. Thus although TPM is uniquely Japanese company-wide plant maintenance method developed in Japan, it is of course based on PM technology and techniques learned from the United States. What then are the differences between traditional PM in the U.S. style and TPM developed in Japan? Let us clarify the differences by citing the characteristic of TPM below,
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1. AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE (JISHU-HOZEN):The basic premise of TPM lies in the fact the machine operator should maintain the machine himself. It is something like a car drive. He is taught the basic skill to repair minor problems in the car so that he is responsible for zero breakdown of the car on the road. To achieve this goal, he cleans the car every day, checks critical requirements daily and seeks the help of external maintenance team at repair workshops if he finds major defect. Therefore the machine operators need to be trained to understand their machines well and held responsible over a period of time for their machine uptime. The role of operator, therefore, would include cleaning the machine, daily check-up and analysis; carryout simple standardized maintenance work, arranging maintenance through specialists maintenance team-periodically and thereby improving total life cycle of the asset. The role of equipment builder needs to be redefined in terms of his responsibility towards making his equipment fit for TPM application thereby ensuring high mean time between failures (MTBF) and short mean time to repair (MTTR). Methodology of Jishu Hozen: Jishu-Hozen" or autonomous maintenance is carried out by machine operator along with his regular production work. He is allowed some Jishu-Hozen time to take care of his equipment. Operator is the person who is very close to the equipment and his involvement in maintaining equipment health certainly helpful. Many of the abnormalities can be noticed by him through the three senses, Look, listen & feel" during his regular production activity. As per TPM methodology, operator carries out Jishu Hozen activity in seven steps. Step 1: Initial clean up. In this step operator removes all the machine covers (Discover to discover). Then entire machine is cleaned thoroughly (cleaning with meaning). During cleaning he finds out many abnormalities, viz-loose fittings, leakage, missing parts, and various types of contamination. These abnormalities are properly tagged (white tag for rectifying it by him & pink tag with planned maintenance support, due to lack of skill). With proper training Jishu-
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Operator gets awareness about his own machine. Improves cross functional relationship with other TPM pillars viz. PM, KK, E&T. In this step we start enjoying the fruits of TPM methodology. Step-3: Visual controls and inspection After taking all countermeasures still we require large amount of time for clean, lubricate, inspect activities. Based on the operators experience and skill enhancement, he is now in position to access Jishu Hozen time. With the help of Kaizens and countermeasures against difficult to clean, lubricate, inspect this Jishu Hozen time can be brought down to improve availability rating. In order to standardize these (CLI) clean, lubricate, inspect activities we have derived CLI sheets machine wise. This can guide any operators to perform all mentioned activities effectively. The activity numbers are marked on machines by means of stickers with the activity number marked on it. The activity place is also marked on flooring from where this activity can be performed. Any new operator can also perform easily with the help of this provision. 1. Visual controls and inspection a. By providing see through covers inspection can be made easier. (Without opening the covers) viz. Motor belts, chains, gear drives, couplings etc. b. Marking for oil level, pressure gauge ensures the level of settings for the smooth process.(without breakdown and sometimes defects)
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2. INDIVIDUAL IMPROVEMENTS / KOBESTU KAIZEN:Every employee in the company must be made aware of the areas the contribute to losses and how he can help eliminate defects from his own work and contribute to reduction of losses company wide. This activity pertains to training people in implementing specially the staff and shop supervisors on how to address elimination of 16 areas of major losses that exist in any manufacturing set up. And also ensure zero loss due to equipment failure and product defect. Procedure for implementing Kobestu-kaizen: 1. Define the problem: search for the existing problem and define the problem, whether the problem going to affect the cost or production. 2. Loss data: note down the lost data. 3. Identify the theme: Identify the theme behind making the kaizen. 4. From group: Form small groups or cross functional teams. 4. Analysis: analyze the problem by doing why-why analysis 5. Identify counter measures and do kaizens 6. Implementation of counter measures. 7. Note down the results after implementing kaizen 8. Standardize the results.
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3. QUALITY MAINTENANCE:Necessity and Definition of Quality maintenance: When carrying out high precision processing at manufacturing workshops, it is often assumed that adjustment is the natural work and that its skillful execution is expertise. At these manufacturing workshops, however equipment automation and shifting to unattended operations are now progressing, with the center of production activities transferred from manual work to machine operation. In such a states of affairs, ensuring high quality through equipment arrangements has become more important than even in order to ensure high quality at each process. In other words, ensuring high quality has become greatly influenced by the state of the equipment. If quality is crucially influenced by the state of the equipment, it will be necessary to take preventive steps to find condition of defect free equipment or processing; to control the trend of such conditions changes; and eliminate the possibility of defect occurrence in advance. The method of maintaining equipment to take such preventive steps is quality maintenance. It can also be defined as follows: With the purpose of realizing quality, defect free equipment to maintain absolute quality (the state of 100% quality products) quality maintenance means: Setting condition for zero failures Preventing quality defects by maintaining conditions within standard value ranges Inspecting and measuring the conditions in time series; and Predicting the possibility of quality defect occurrence by reviewing changes in measured values: and based on these, Taking countermeasures in advance. Employees should aim at Right First Time thereby Zero-Defect production. To achieve this, it is necessary that the staff records actual defects according to confirmed standards and analyses the data to relate defects to equipment or process standards. Correction actions should be implemented through KAIZEN Cross Functional Team, QC Circle or small group activities. Methodology of Quality maintenance / zero defects:1. From defect we need to go to phenomenon 2. Do a why-why analysis 3. Go to root cause 4. Solution would be of two types: Poor design or human error. For poor design of product/process strengthen the design. For human error we will need to implement Poka Yoke.
4. MATERIAL FLOW SYSTEM:In any manufacturing shop, locating of tools, jigs and fixtures and other hand tools take some time only because these have not been stored systematically and people have to search for these tools. Quite often, the required tool is not in stock when required. Balancing of load on machines is yet another major issue. Some machines are overloaded and some waiting for material. All this leads to loss to productive hours of the machine tool.
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8. SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT:The work environment should be free from risk of accidents. There should be adequate systems in place to analyzed and maintain zero accident levels. Create a healthy and clean working site for the employee
Loss generated when machine has stopped on its own due to component failure e.g. breakage of V belt on a machine, etc For calculation of OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY (OEE), a part of breakdown, which has resulted in loss of opportunity of production, shall be considered. All repairs that are not part of planned maintenance (based on annual plan) are part of breakdown loss.
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Loss generated when equipment is stopped in planned manner. The activity that is pre-decided (annual calendar) with a realistic estimate .E.g. In the year F2K, spare parts of the machines will be replaced with a specific predetermined periodicity, irrespective of the life left / failure occurred due to the spare part in question (Time bound maintenance). It will also include specific predetermined overhaul program.
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The loss attributed to change of setup from one component to other component. Note: It shall include time for removal, fixing, and adjustment/repair. Setting is complete when 1st job is as per specifications. E.g. Change of Jigs & fixture (as applicable in machining area), Change of die (as applicable in stamping area & foundry).
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Tool change loss is defined as a loss occurred while changing tools & tooling in running production till 1st ok part is produced. Note: Time lost in changing drills, bushes, dressing wheels, etc.
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The time required for the equipment to attain optimal operating condition. E.g. Paint shop - Oven temperature is expected to reach X oC before baking can start. Heat Treatment - Furnace should attain Y oC before charge is put inside. Foundry PU - Die is heated to Z oC before start of production.
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Minor Stops:
It is a performance-related loss (usually less than a minute) that results in stoppage of material movement. E.g. Limit switch is manually operated to restore operating condition, Component has stuck to die while stamping - it is removed by one touch.
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Speed Loss :
Loss due to increase in on line and/or auto cycle time due to reduction in speed, feed. E.g. Cycle time of Widma Borer has gone up from 6.5 min to 9.5 min due to feed variation.
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Defects Loss :
Number of parts that are not confirming to specification. E.g. Rework, Rejection.
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Management Loss :
Loss due to wrong planning. E.g. Tools, Material, Instructions are not available. Loss that reduces human efficiency.
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