Keep it SImple...Keep on GOING!

TPM is a typical Japanese culture based activity that is SIMPLE.

If you look at the way they construct their house, they prepare and serve their food, and even their old castles are made so simple. Even the traditional dress is simple. Yet so elegant and functional.

In view of its simplicity, it is is easy to do. Just like TPM, it is so easy to do as it is a STEP by STEP process leading to GREAT results.

However, simple as it is , it requires a lot of DISCIPLINE to accomplish. Collective discipline that is. The whole factory, and the whole population of that factory needs to be INVOLVED and adhere to the steps.

And another key thing is to keep on going till everyone and everything in the factory smell, look, taste like TPM. Back steps will result to degradation and would make the previous efforts not achieve full potentials. Stop and Go activities makes the process longer and confuses the people in the organization.

So keep TPM SIMPLE and Keep on GOING!

If you want to implement TPM in your factory, I would be more than willing to help.

God bless!